Perspectives

Selecting a supplier portal is treated as a procurement decision. The vendor evaluations are led by procurement. The criteria are feature-based. The comparison is run against a requirements list assembled from current workflow pain points.

An AI implementation partner for private equity is a firm that embeds engineering teams inside portfolio companies to identify, build, and maintain AI systems that drive measurable EBITDA impact and stays accountable through production and post-launch.The defining characteristic is ownership after go-live. The same team that scoped the use case owns what happens when the data breaks, the model drifts, or the integration fails.

There is a version of this story that plays out at a surprising number of PE-backed companies in the 12 to 18 months after a close.