AI that ships inside the value creation plan, not beside it.

Kairoi embeds with PE-backed operating teams to build production AI systems accountable to the same outcomes you report to the board. We don’t do pilots. We ship systems that run your business.

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The reality

You’re inside a deal. There’s a VCP with your name on it.

Quarterly board meetings. A sponsor expecting measurable progress against a thesis they underwrote at a premium. You’ve heard the AI pitch before: from consultants who left a report and moved on, from vendors who demoed something impressive and couldn’t integrate it, from internal teams who built a prototype that never made it to production. The pattern is familiar: high promise, high friction, low accountability.

We built Kairoi for operators who can’t afford another pilot that doesn’t ship. Every engagement we run is tied to a deliverable your board will see and a system your team will use. We embed with your operating leadership (not your IT department) because the value creation plan lives at the operating level, not in infrastructure.

How we think about portcos

Two themes that frame everything we do.

Theme 1

Agentic Development

With agents now able to write software at a fraction of the incremental cost of human-only teams, it’s increasingly more cost-effective to build a bespoke solution that fits your portfolio company’s business than to adapt or configure a COTS product. For PE-backed portcos, the economics are particularly compelling: a one-time technology investment linked to business value, instead of annual license fees that compress forward-looking EBITDA.

Theme 2

AI Partnership

In a PE holding period, executives face short timeframes to accelerate growth and reduce cost, and increasing pressure to embrace AI. You need a partner that understands both the technology and the business dynamics of operating inside a sponsored portfolio. Kairoi creates milestone-based, executable AI roadmaps so the board can understand and buy into the AI investments worth making.

Service lines

Three service lines for portfolio companies.

Compass AI Platform

Deploy Compass AI inside your portfolio company — the Kairoi AI platform and solution accelerator. Ships AI solutions faster, higher quality, and at lower cost than even AI-empowered traditional development teams. Bespoke build on the Compass platform, purpose-built for a workflow or operational outcome that matters in your value creation plan. Often takes the form of an embedded AI assistant, a conversational planning tool, or a custom multi-step analysis pipeline.

Typical duration: 30-100 days to deploy. Working prototypes often delivered before the engagement formally starts.
Who's involved: The operating leadership team that owns the workflow being built. Not your IT department. The PE sponsor’s operating partner is welcome at the table.

AI Risk and Opportunity Assessment

People, process, technology, and business-impact assessment: both for AI inside the business and AI as an outside threat. Detailed analysis of AI efforts to date. Multi-level maturity matrix scoring with artifact review and stakeholder interviews. Actionable 90-day and one-year plans.

Typical duration: 30-60 days
Who's involved: Portco CEO, COO, key management, selected employees, and (for sponsored portcos) the PE sponsor’s operating partner

Company AI Value Creation

End-to-end AI implementation across the business, integrated across functions so insights compound instead of sitting in silos. For sponsored portcos: aligned to the value creation plan. For owner-operators inside the portfolio: aligned to operating-level priorities. Multiple workstreams, multiple production systems coming online over multiple quarters.

Typical duration: 6-10 months, contract-based
Who's involved: Operating leadership across the workstreams; Kairoi delivery lead and senior engineers

Compass AI for portcos

The platform we deploy and customize for portfolio companies.

Workflow Automation

Codify your best operational processes into repeatable, auditable AI workflows. A visual builder supports sequential, parallel, conditional, and aggregate execution. Export workflows as portable recipes.

Custom Assistants

Build AI specialists for your operating team: one for financial reporting, one for customer analysis, one for operational planning. Each encodes your domain expertise and works within your data boundaries.

Presentation Builder

Turn slide creation into an intelligent workflow. Ingest your existing PowerPoint templates. Semantic search finds the best slides for new presentations. Native SmartArt preservation. Decks that look like your decks.

Rich Content Creation

Generate board-ready deliverables directly from conversations. Structured analytical documents, financial models with real formulas, data visualizations, formatted reports. What used to take a team days now takes a conversation.

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Portco outcomes

Production systems. Real outcomes.

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AI enablement and operational transformation, simultaneously

Complete platform rebuild with every vulnerability resolved by design. Conversational AI planning over sales, inventory, orders, and trends. Automated fulfillment exports, real-time e-commerce integration, franchise-ready architecture. The owner moved from approver of a spreadsheet to governor of a system that learns from him.

Multi-location specialty food manufacturer, privately owned

A 1-hour transcript becomes a Compass-ready proposal with eight prototypes

A technical security assessment of the legacy stack, plus eight rich working prototypes showing what an AI-enabled production planning solution could look like, built before contracts were signed. The conversation moved immediately from “should we?” to “what do we ship first?”

Multi-location specialty food manufacturer, privately owned

How we engage with portcos

The CEO, the COO, and the sponsor in the room together.

We start with a working session, typically with the portco CEO or COO and the PE sponsor’s operating partner together. Both belong in the room because the value creation plan is a shared commitment, and the AI roadmap has to fit inside it.

Engagements are scoped in weeks, not months. Small senior teams that work alongside your operating leadership, not in a separate workstream. Deliverables show up in your board pack, not in a consultant’s status report.

We don’t publish engagement investment ranges; scope dependence is too high. What we will say: AI-augmented development plus the Compass platform let us deliver enterprise-quality, secure capabilities faster and at lower cost than larger development shops carrying legacy organizations and process overhead.

First-session checklist

— Portco CEO or COO at the table
— PE sponsor’s operating partner at the table
— A real workflow or board commitment as the lens
— Bring artifacts (board pack, process docs, software stack)

Built for operators who ship inside the value creation plan.

Schedule a working session with your PE sponsor at the table. We’ll focus on the workflows that move the needle.

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