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AI insights for PE funds, portcos and operating partners. No fluff, just useful cases, ROI, and keeping at the edge of where we're headed.
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Deployment stories.
What's moving EBITDA.
No think pieces. No slideware. Built from live work inside PE portfolios.
The Macro View
How the PE value creation model is shifting. Data, not opinions. DPI trends, hold period dynamics, operational alpha benchmarks.
What's Working
Where AI drives results. Revenue intelligence, operational efficiency, knowledge preservation. Where EBITDA value is being delivered in weeks.
Resources
Operating playbooks, AI deployment frameworks, and portfolio-level strategies. Built for operating partners who need to move fast.
The latest from G3NR8.
Newsletters and long-reads grounded in real deployments, not theory.
The AI labs are buying their way into PE.
Anthropic is negotiating a JV with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Permira. OpenAI is talking to TPG, Bain Capital and Advent. Apollo is already using AI to reprice its own software book. The frontier labs stopped selling to PE and started buying distribution.
Read Issue 05 →The death of financial engineering, and what replaces it.
The capstone issue. Eight weeks of data, conversations and frameworks distilled into four insights that matter. Mega-fund AI moves from Hg, Permira and Silver Lake. The speed gap is now measurable. The window is closing.
Read Issue 04 →Why 95% of AI pilots fail: the missing intent layer.
MIT found 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable business impact. The problem isn't the technology. It's that nobody defined what working actually means. The missing discipline is intent engineering: telling AI what to want, not just what to do.
Read the article →How PE operating partners are deploying AI that actually works.
Why the best operating partners start with discovery, not technology. How AI voice interviews surface ground truth from every level of a portco in under two weeks, and how that feeds directly into deployed intelligence that protects revenue.
Read the article →Working intelligence
in 4-6 weeks.
G3NR8 deploys OEX into PE portfolio companies and industrial businesses. Revenue intelligence, operational efficiency, customer risk. Deployed and generating value, not sitting in a slide deck.
Find where the friction lives
AI voice interviews, opportunity mapping, top opportunities scoped. Ground truth from across the organisation in under two weeks.
OEX into production
A working, unified view of operational data across the business. Revenue intelligence, customer risk, operational efficiency. Deployed and generating value in 4-6 weeks.
New use cases, same platform
New departments, new entities. Compounding intelligence with every deployment. Same platform, expanding returns.
Private Equity Firms
Operational alpha across your portfolio. Deploy OEX during due diligence or post-close. Speed-to-EBITDA in weeks, not quarters. Start with one company, scale across ten.
Industrial Businesses
Manufacturing, distribution, logistics, construction, energy. We strip out friction and protect revenue with AI that works on your existing systems. No migration. No disruption.
