[01] For private equity portfolio teams
Production AI in your portcos in 6 weeks. Fixed fee.
Senior London engineers embed in a portfolio company, take one workflow to production against a metric you agree in week one, and hand over the security evidence buyers ask for at exit.
No fee if you are not happy with the result.
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[03] The problem
Your portcos have pilots. Your IC wants results.
Pilots that never ship.
Most portfolio companies have tested AI. Few have anything in production that moves a number.
No bench to deploy.
One AI operating partner cannot cover 20 companies. Big consultancies scope for longer than we take to ship.
Risk nobody has checked.
Buyers' diligence now asks how AI systems were tested and secured. Most portcos cannot answer.
[04] How it works and what it costs
Four stages. Every price published.
Portfolio triage
Free
2 hours
- We review your portfolio with you.
- You get a ranked shortlist of portcos and workflows by likely EBITDA impact.
- One page you can take to your IC.
Portco readiness check
From £7,500
3 to 7 working days
- Tech, data and security review of one portfolio company.
- A prioritised plan with one recommended workflow, a baseline metric and a fixed sprint quote.
- Fee credited in full against a sprint.
Production sprint
From £75,000
6 weeks
- A pod of senior Forward Deployed Engineers embedded in the portco team.
- One workflow in production, measured against the agreed baseline.
- Red team and evaluation report included, not an extra.
Run and secure
From £6,000 per month
30 days notice, no lock-in
- 24/7 monitoring and on-call from Care by Releaseworks.
- Continuous security hardening from Protivis.
- Monthly metric report for the board pack.
Portfolio terms: from your third sprint within the same fund, 10% off every sprint. Same playbook, faster each time.
What holds the price fixed
We need
- System access in week one.
- A named workflow owner at the portco.
- A baseline metric agreed before we start.
You get
- A fixed fee with no change requests.
- New scope becomes a new sprint, quoted up front.
- Invoices to the fund or the portco, your choice.
- All prices exclude VAT.
[05] Guarantee
If you are not happy, you do not pay.
No long contracts. No fee payable if you are not satisfied with our results. We carry the delivery risk, not your portfolio company.
[06] Why Releaseworks
Built for portfolio work.
[01]
Senior engineers only.
Full-time, background-checked, London-based staff. No subcontractors, no offshore handoffs. The person on the kickoff call writes the code.
[02]
We work inside the portco team.
Their repos, their cloud, their data. The capability stays when we leave.
[03]
Security is part of the build.
Every sprint ships with adversarial testing and an evaluation report you can hand to a buyer.
[04]
We can run it afterwards.
24/7 operations for portcos with thin tech teams.
[07] FAQ
The questions portfolio teams ask first.
Will the portco CTO resist this?
We embed in their team, work in their tools and hand everything over. Most CTOs see us as extra senior capacity, not a threat.
We already have a consulting panel. Why you?
We ship production systems in the time a large firm takes to scope one. Fixed fee, senior people, no juniors learning on your budget.
Which portfolio companies are a good fit?
Software and tech-enabled businesses, and services businesses with high-volume manual workflows such as claims, onboarding, customer operations and finance operations. Typically £30m to £300m revenue.
How do you handle data and security?
Nothing moves to our tenancy. We work in the portco's own cloud, map data flows first, and can deploy models inside their environment where needed.
Who pays, the fund or the portco?
Either. The triage is free. Readiness checks and sprints are usually paid by the portco. We can invoice the fund if you prefer.
What if the workflow does not hit the metric?
Our guarantee applies. If you are not satisfied with the result, there is no fee.
Can you cover several portcos at once?
Yes. We run parallel pods and offer portfolio terms from the third sprint.
[08] Next step
Start with a free 2-hour portfolio triage.
You leave with a ranked shortlist of where AI will move EBITDA in your portfolio. No pitch deck.