Every portfolio company has two or three workflows where AI produces measurable margin inside the hold period. What most sponsors lack is a repeatable way to find them, cost them, and get them built without a Big 4 invoice.
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Each management team is running its own AI experiments — some stalled, some duplicative, none comparable. There's no portfolio-level view of the opportunity.
AI initiatives that take two years to show returns don't fit a hold period. The use cases that matter are the ones with 6–12 month payback — and they exist in nearly every company.
Big 4 AI engagements are priced for enterprises; tool vendors sell software, not outcomes. Mid-market portcos sit in the gap between them.
A standardized audit across portcos produces comparable answers: which workflows, what cost, what return, what sequence — company by company, in one framework. Fixed price per company means the screening cost is known up front.
AP/invoice processing, service triage, document production — the same three use cases that dominate mid-market payback, built with each company's own staff so capability survives the exit. Typical builds $15,000–$75,000 per workflow.
What works at one portfolio company becomes the template for the next. Sponsors get a repeatable motion; management teams get a proven sequence instead of a science project.
Published fixed pricing: Readiness Audits from $9,500 per company, flat-fee strategy, and an outcome-aligned component on builds. Portfolio arrangements are priced per engagement — the point is that screening cost is predictable.
That's the design goal. Every build is co-led with company staff and documented for handoff — the capability is an asset that transfers, not a consulting dependency that churns.
Our sister firm, Talent Echo Advisory Group, places Chief AI Officers and AI governance leaders. Between us: the program gets built and the leadership to own it gets hired — both scrutiny-ready for the next buyer's diligence.
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