Timing Your Sale Around Your Tech Stack's Maturity Curve

Every platform investment follows the same arc: expensive and unproven, then productive and current, then stable and increasingly hard to hire for. Valuation follows the same shape with a lag.

Signals you are past the peak

• Upgrade work is deferred each planning cycle
• Candidates need training on your stack rather than experience in it
• Vendors are announcing end-of-support timelines

The window is wide, but it does close. Recognising which side of it you are on should inform the timing conversation.