A forward deployed team for your portfolio.
We embed engineers inside portfolio companies to take out cost, find the synergies, and ship the systems the value-creation plan depends on.
Teams we have worked with
What we do
Engineers inside the company
A small team joins the portfolio company, learns the operation from the people running it, and ships against the plan.
Cost out of the P&L
The manual middle of quoting, back office, and customer operations moves into software, measured against a baseline.
Synergies built, not asserted
The same workflow appearing in three companies becomes one system. Shared data, shared tooling, shared leverage.
Where the margin comes from
The same levers repeat across almost every mid-market operating company.
Quote to cash
Quoting, pricing, ordering, and invoicing with fewer touches between enquiry and payment.
Back office
Reconciliation, reporting, and document handling that used to queue on one person and a spreadsheet.
Customer operations
Calls, bookings, and support handled around the clock without adding headcount.
Portfolio reporting
KPIs defined once and read the same way in every company, so board packs start from the record.
How we do it
- 1
Read the portfolio
Go through each company's cost base with the operating partner and rank the movable lines.
- 2
Deploy into one company
Embed with the first portfolio company and ship the first system against a measured baseline.
- 3
Prove the saving
Compare the workflow before and after. A saving that cannot be measured is not claimed.
- 4
Roll it across the portfolio
Carry the proven system and its playbook to the next company, where it lands faster and cheaper.
We run value creation like an engineering problem.
The P&L picks the work
We start where the cost line is large, manual, and movable, not where the technology is most interesting.
Operators stay in control
Every automated step has a boundary, an audit trail, and a person who can override it.
Build once, deploy again
A system proven in one company is designed from the start to travel to the next one.
What you'll achieve
Operating cost taken out
The mechanical middle of a workflow runs in software, and people move to the exceptions and the customers.
Capacity without headcount
The same team carries more demand because routine work no longer queues on people.
Systems the company keeps
What we build runs in the company's own accounts and keeps working after we step back.
Case studies
We have done this before.
2h 55m → 48m median standard quote
Unifying inventory visibility across a multi-supplier distribution network
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72% faster to a relevant product in staff task testing
Making 1,126 valve products searchable in plain English
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Automotive retail
24/7 every call answered, including out of hours
Hey, we built Aria, the future of agentic telephony
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Common questions
Do you work for the fund or for the portfolio company?
Both, deliberately. The engagement is held with the fund and the plan is set with the operating partner, while the daily work happens inside the portfolio company with its own team. Everyone reads the same numbers.
Where does the first deployment start?
With one company and one large, manual cost line. A single measured saving earns the next deployment, and it teaches us more about the portfolio than any audit would.
What happens when you step back?
The systems run in the company's own accounts and its team is trained to operate them. We build for the exit: a buyer should find working software, not a dependency on us.
Services for private equity teams
Tell us what you need built.
A 20 minute call is enough to work out whether a pod fits. The first week of work is defined on that call.