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AI became your problem anyway.

You carry value creation yourself, without an operating partner. Now the LPs ask about AI in the DDQ, buyers ask in diligence at exit, and the AI wins reported at the boards you chair are exactly the claims you have no independent way to check.

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Line-engraved chart: a value line climbs to a marked endpoint, and a green wedge closes the remaining gap to a higher mark at the exit line.
Why it lands on you

Every road ends with you.

At a fund with an operating partner, the AI mandate at least has a desk to land on. At yours, everything operational ends with the board chair, and across the boards you chair, that is you. The usual fix is one more retained advisor, except every retained relationship the fund keeps already runs through you personally. And becoming the expert yourself is the answer the economics rule out: your hours are the fund’s scarcest resource, and every one spent refereeing AI claims is an hour off the next deal and the next raise.

The seat doesn’t need you to become the expert. It needs an independent read the IC can lean on, with none of your hours in it.

The longer version of the argument: The Satisfaction Gap: Why Sponsors and Their Companies Disagree About AI

What the baseline gives your seat
The ICA written read on AI across the portfolio, with the reasoning shown. Something you can put in front of the committee without becoming the expert in the room.
The LP’s DDQThe portfolio answer to the DDQ’s AI section, grounded in what each company is actually doing. Written to be checked, which is what an AI-washing screen is looking for.
The exit storyWhere AI lifts the equity value before exit, and where it would only decorate the CIM. The story starts holding up now, not the quarter a process opens.
The noWhere the answer is not yet, in writing, with the criteria. A read that can’t say no is a read you can’t sponsor.
Your three hours
30 minthe framing call
90 minthe working intake
60 minthe playback

Everything except your three hours happens off your calendar: the data request goes to an analyst, not to you, and the two weeks of desk work are ours. The finished baseline lands within 48 hours of the playback. Nothing here for you to manage.

After the readout

One introduction, and it runs without you.

01The baseline stands on its own: answer the DDQ from it and hold it up against what each board reports. Where a company you chair is ready, it names the first move.
02For that company, the next step is Your Company AI Roadmap: the same read taken inside the business, built with its CEO, owned by its team, also free. You bring it to the board as its chair; we carry it from there. The CEO owns the plan and you stay the chair, which protects the board relationship you hold personally.
03Where a roadmap calls for building and the company wants it built, that is the work we charge for. It runs on us: senior operators and specialists, engaged per project, not one more relationship for you to quarterback. Proposals default to the company’s paper, so there is no monitoring-fee offset to manage, and first moves are scoped in weeks, which matters once a process is on the calendar.

The baseline is free because it is how we choose the clients we build with long-term: we only make money if a client decides to continue. Nothing obligates you, or any board you chair. How we work, from baseline to build

Thirty minutes tells us both whether a baseline fits your fund. If it doesn’t, we’ll say so.

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