How a PE firm rolls out AI across 26 portfolio companies by grouping on system of record
vasuman · x · 2026-10-06
startupideaspod shares a playbook for deploying AI across 26 companies in a PE portfolio: with 10 departments and 10 workflows each, a company-by-company approach would need "50,000 forward deployed engineers over three years." Instead, they group companies by system of record — e.g., 5 finance teams on NetSuite in one cohort, 4 on Dynamics in another — learn what each platform can and can't do natively, and build only for the gaps. Even within a cohort, processes differ: the 5 NetSuite companies used 12, 9, 15, 18 and 13 steps for their finance process, with a target of 6 steps and agents at specific points. Full uniformity is rare, but mapping each process with stakeholders before changing it gets you close. The takeaway: whether one company or 26, sort the work by its underlying system before building.
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