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Industries / Private equity & growth funds

You buy service businesses to make them more efficient. We build the layer that does it.

Private equity and growth funds: we do the AI layer inside your portfolio, and we take carry-style upside instead of consulting fees.

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01 / Your expertise

A model can screen a market. It cannot tell you which lever moves EBITDA.

Buying well, and knowing which operational change actually converts into earnings in this business at this stage - that is the fund’s edge. Building the systems that execute the change is not, and should not be, an in-house capability.

What is scarce

Thesis and price discipline, and the operational read on where value actually sits in a holding.

What is not

Sourcing and screening throughput, CIM review, portfolio and LP reporting, covenant monitoring, diligence tracking, add-on mapping.

What we do about it

We build inside the portfolio to one deployment pattern, on our own capital, paid on the outcome rather than the hours.

02 / Automate internally

Before the portfolio: the fund’s own throughput.

Not a chatbot in your inbox. Whole workflows in production - across every person and system they touch - on one layer that the next workflow reuses.

Sourcing & screening

Deal flow screened against your actual thesis, continuously, so the team sees the twenty opportunities worth a call rather than four hundred teasers.

CIM & data room review

CIMs and data rooms read at volume with red flags extracted and evidenced - the first-pass work that currently decides which deals get attention on the basis of who had time.

Portfolio reporting

Reporting consolidated across holdings from source systems, instead of a monthly chase for spreadsheets in twelve different formats.

LP reporting & letters

Quarterly letters and LP reporting drafted from the consolidated portfolio record - a fortnight of senior time per quarter.

Covenant & KPI monitoring

Covenants and KPIs monitored across every holding with breaches surfaced early, rather than discovered at the board meeting.

Diligence tracking

Diligence questions, owners and answers tracked across workstreams and advisers, so nothing closes on an unanswered item.

Add-on mapping

Fragmented markets mapped continuously for add-on targets, with ownership, size and contact route - the research that makes or breaks a buy-and-build.

03 / Build together

Then one deployment pattern across every holding, compounding into a playbook.

A portfolio-wide AI operating layer: the same pattern applied in each company, so the second deployment is faster and cheaper than the first and the fifth is close to routine. In a buy-and-build, that playbook is the multiple arbitrage - it is the reason the platform is worth more than the sum of what you paid for it.

The playbook is the arbitrage

Repeatable automation across holdings turns operational improvement from a bespoke project per company into an asset the fund owns and reapplies.

A software line inside a services asset

We can co-build a product inside a portfolio company on this same model - so at exit the asset carries software revenue, not just improved margins.

Carry-style, not consulting fees

We take upside rather than day rates. If the value creation does not happen, we do not get paid for the attempt.

04 / Why you

The whole thesis of vertical AI investing is that services can be re-rated as software.

That is the trade every fund in this category is underwriting. The part that is hard to buy is execution: engineers who will sit inside a services business and get automation into production, aligned with the exit rather than with a statement of work. We do the building part, on our own capital, and we are paid on your outcome.

You own it, not us

Code, models, prompts and runbooks transfer to the fund and the holding. If we disappeared tomorrow, the systems keep running.

One layer, reused everywhere

The second workflow - and the second portfolio company - costs a fraction of the first, because the pattern is already built.

Diligence-grade governance

Human-approved gates, evidence on every output, separation between holdings, ISO 27001 and GDPR alignment, deployable in each company’s own environment.

Forward-deployed, not handed over

Our engineers sit inside the holding until it runs - then its people build on it, not just operate it.

The AI-native grant

Change the operating model, not just the tooling.

We invest €50,000 of engineering into one real process inside your firm. Two minutes to apply, twenty to find out if you are a fit.

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