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Technology operators for private equity.

We run the technology function inside portfolio companies. Diligence before the deal, the 100 day plan after it, and the department itself for as long as you hold the asset. Senior engineers on the ground, one lead accountable to the operating partner, and one platform so every company reports the same way.

  • Which companies are behind on the 100 day plan?
  • What still has to close before we can exit?
  • Where are we paying twice for the same system?
  • Who has admin rights nobody has reviewed?
  • What breaks when we bolt the next one on?
  • Which diligence findings are still open?

Where our engineers come from

  • Santander

Technology Operator

Specific talent for specific industries.

Most technology operators are generalists, staffed from whoever is free that month. We are organised by sector instead: engineers who have run these systems in production, and a vetted bench to call on when a job needs a specialism the team does not already hold.

Pick a sector

Manufacturing

The landscape

  • Control and SCADA

    • Ignition
    • Rockwell FactoryTalk
    • Siemens WinCC
    • iFIX
  • PLCs and devices

    • Allen-Bradley
    • Siemens S7
    • Beckhoff
  • Historian and analytics

    • AVEVA PI System
    • Canary
    • Power BI
  • ERP and MES

    • Microsoft Dynamics 365
    • SAP
    • Plex
  • OT network and security

    • Fortinet
    • Cisco
    • Claroty
  • Cloud and identity

    • Microsoft Azure
    • Entra ID
    • Microsoft 365

What we get called in for

  • Downtime blamed on the line when it starts in the changeover schedule.
  • A historian collecting a fraction of the tags it is licensed for.
  • OT and IT on one flat network, with remote access nobody has audited.

LNG

The landscape

  • Process historian

    • AVEVA PI System
    • PI Vision
    • PI Asset Framework
  • Control and HMI

    • iFIX
    • Ignition
    • Emerson DeltaV
    • Honeywell Experion
  • PLCs and safety systems

    • Allen-Bradley
    • Siemens S7
    • Triconex
  • OT network and security

    • Fortinet
    • Claroty
    • Nozomi Networks
  • Fleet and field

    • Samsara
    • IBM Maximo
  • Cloud and identity

    • Microsoft Azure
    • Entra ID
    • Microsoft 365

What we get called in for

  • PI tags licensed, not collected, and nobody watching the buffer.
  • Vendor laptops on the control network under a standing exception.
  • Compressor performance read off a spreadsheet a week after the fact.

Consumer Products and Distribution

The landscape

  • ERP

    • NetSuite
    • Microsoft Dynamics 365
    • Cin7
  • Commerce and marketplace

    • Shopify
    • Amazon Seller Central
    • Faire
  • Warehouse and logistics

    • Manhattan
    • ShipStation
    • 3PL integrations
  • Pricing and demand

    • Databricks
    • Power BI
    • Python and dbt
  • CRM and marketing

    • HubSpot
    • Salesforce
    • Klaviyo
  • Cloud and identity

    • Microsoft Azure
    • Entra ID
    • Microsoft 365

What we get called in for

  • One price held flat across channels that would each bear something different.
  • Margin by SKU that takes an analyst and a week to answer.
  • ERP, storefront and warehouse counts that never quite reconcile.

Dental Surgeries

The landscape

  • Practice management

    • Dentrix
    • Dentally
    • SOE Exact
    • Open Dental
  • Imaging

    • Dexis
    • Planmeca Romexis
    • Carestream
  • Patient comms and recall

    • Podium
    • Dental Focus
  • Finance and payroll

    • Xero
    • Sage
  • Reporting

    • Power BI
  • Cloud and identity

    • Microsoft 365
    • Entra ID
    • Microsoft Azure

What we get called in for

  • Every practice acquired with its own PMS and its own server in a cupboard.
  • Recall performance measured a different way at each site.
  • Chair time lost to short-notice cancellations nobody is tracking.

Family Offices

The landscape

  • Portfolio and accounting

    • Addepar
    • Xero
    • Sage Intacct
  • Property and operations

    • Yardi
    • MRI Software
  • Reporting

    • Power BI
  • Documents and collaboration

    • Microsoft 365
    • SharePoint
  • Security and identity

    • Entra ID
    • Microsoft Defender

What we get called in for

  • Committed, called and owned are three numbers in three documents.
  • A quarterly pack rebuilt by hand, from statements that arrive late.
  • Access granted once, to someone who has since left, and never reviewed.

Neurotic Products

Our AI Data Platform. Run your company from your phone.

Ask in plain English and get the answer out of your own systems, wherever you are. It reads your documents and your data, not the open internet, and shows you where every answer came from. A new dashboard is a conversation, not a quarter of somebody's analyst time.

  • One source of truth

    Every company you own answering from the same numbers, defined once.

  • Its own RAG

    Indexed on your documents and systems, never the open web. Every answer carries the record it came from, and it says it does not know rather than inventing one.

  • In your pocket

    The same platform on a phone, for the people who are never at a desk.

  • Built at speed

    Ask for a view you do not have and it is drawn while you are asking.

See the platform

See it as your sector would

Manufacturing

Neurotic AI Platform Manufacturing Example view

Ask Why was line 3 down yesterday?

Changeover, not breakdown. Most of it on one product switch.

Time lost by line, yesterday

  • Line 1
  • Line 2
  • Line 3
  • Line 4

Line 3, by reason

  • Changeover
  • Breakdown
  • Starved
  • Quality hold
  • Product switch, 14:20 changeover longest single stop

Neurotic Example view

Why was line 3 down yesterday?

Changeover, not breakdown. Most of it on one product switch.

Reminder set: changeover review with both line leads, Monday

LNG

Neurotic AI Platform LNG Example view

Ask Show me compressor train availability this week.

Train B ran derated from Tuesday. Suction pressure is the tell.

  • Compressor train A availability, week available
  • Compressor train B availability, week derated
  • Feed gas PI tag healthy
  • Boil-off recovery PI tag healthy

Train B suction pressure

Interface and buffer health

  • Collecting
  • Buffering

Neurotic Example view

Show me compressor train availability this week.

Train B ran derated from Tuesday. Suction pressure is the tell.

Reminder set: Train B derate review with the plant manager, Monday

Consumer Products and Distribution

Neurotic AI Platform Consumer Products and Distribution Example view

Ask Which SKUs are priced below what the channel will bear?

A block of fast movers, all in the same channel.

Headroom to recommended price

  • Fast movers, trade
  • Fast movers, direct
  • Long tail, trade
  • Long tail, direct

SKUs under review

  • SKU 41-220 trade channel raise
  • SKU 41-318 trade channel raise
  • SKU 62-104 direct hold

Neurotic Example view

Which SKUs are priced below what the channel will bear?

A block of fast movers, all in the same channel.

Reminder set: trade channel pricing review with the commercial lead

Dental Surgeries

Neurotic AI Platform Dental Surgeries Example view

Ask Which practices are leaving chair time unbooked?

Two. Both lose it to short-notice cancellations, not to demand.

  • Practice, north chair utilisation on plan
  • Practice, city chair utilisation unbooked
  • Practice, west chair utilisation on plan
  • Practice, coast chair utilisation unbooked

Recall performance

  • Booked
  • Lapsed

Short-notice cancellations

Neurotic Example view

Which practices are leaving chair time unbooked?

Two. Both lose it to short-notice cancellations, not to demand.

Reminder set: cancellation policy review with both practice managers

Family Offices

Neurotic AI Platform Family Offices Example view

Ask What is uncalled against next year's expected calls?

Covered, though two managers are drawing ahead of schedule.

  • Private funds across managers uncalled tracked
  • Florida property quarter to date occupancy held
  • Manufacturing business quarter to date audit due
  • Public markets quarter to date reported

Uncalled against expected calls

  • Uncalled
  • Expected calls

Liquidity runway

Neurotic Example view

What is uncalled against next year's expected calls?

Covered, though two managers are drawing ahead of schedule.

Reminder set: confirm the drawdown schedule with both managers

The deal cycle

Four points in a deal where a fund calls us.

  1. Pre-deal

    AI technology due diligence

    A health check across every system in the target, and a remediation plan that prices each fix.

  2. Carve-out

    Off the TSA before the clock runs out

    Standing the company up on its own systems while the transitional services agreement is still cheap.

  3. The hold

    Value creation

    ERP integrations, SaaS and AI rationalisation, and a Microsoft licence audit. Our own products where they earn their place.

  4. Exit

    Ready for the next buyer's diligence

    Clean tenancy, documented estate, reporting a buyer can verify. Your entry findings do not become theirs.

Mid-market funds with no in-house technology operating partner, and the family offices and founder-owned groups that buy the same way.

Products

Three other products your portco might need.

Not the platform. The things a portfolio company turns out to need once the platform is in.

Pick a product

Dynamic Pricing Platform

Know what each SKU can bear. Before your competitor does.

Demand elasticity modelling across your catalogue, by channel and by customer segment. Recommends price moves, forecasts the volume effect, and shows you the margin you are leaving on the table. Runs alongside the AI Platform or on its own.

Dynamic Pricing SKU 41-220 Example view

Ask What can 41-220 bear in trade?

SKU 41-220 trade channel headroom to raise

Price history, twelve months

Demand elasticity, this channel

Price Volume
  • Price today
  • Recommended band

Raise, trade channel only

Curve is flat to this point, true cost has moved with freight, and two competitors reset above you last week.

Every move checked against the rules first: never below the distributor floor, never twice in a quarter.

Employee Performance Platform

See who is carrying the work. And who needs help.

For businesses where people are the product: consultancies, agencies, clinics, field service. Utilisation, output, quality and coaching signals from the systems you already run, without surveillance software on anyone's laptop. People get fair, visible measures.

Employee Performance Delivery team Example view

Ask Which teams are carrying more than they should?

Utilisation, this week

  • A. Consultant
  • B. Consultant
  • C. Consultant
  • D. Consultant
  • E. Consultant

Quality signal

  • A. Consultant
  • B. Consultant
  • C. Consultant
  • D. Consultant
  • E. Consultant

Where the week needs a manager

  • B. Consultant carrying the most, quality slipping coach
  • C. Consultant capacity available assign
  • E. Consultant third week over on the same account review

Team utilisation, twelve weeks

Rework, twelve weeks

Read from the systems the team already uses. No software on anyone's laptop.

Staff Vetting

Know who you hired. And that they are still cleared to do the work.

Identity and right to work, criminal record and sanctions, licences and certifications, and previous employers, run from one place instead of four suppliers and a spreadsheet. The checking carries on after the hire date, so a licence that lapses or a visa that expires raises a flag before it becomes your problem.

Staff Vetting Candidate 6120 Example view

Ask Who is working today without a current check?

Pre-hire checks, one candidate

  • Identity and right to work documents and visa cleared
  • Criminal record and sanctions screening returned cleared
  • Licences and certifications one of two on file refer
  • Previous employers references returned cleared

Workforce, cleared to work

  • Cleared
  • In progress
  • Referred

Expiring, already hired

  • Contractor 4471 forklift licence renew
  • Contractor 2130 right to work renew
  • Employee 0884 first aid watch

Checks do not stop on the hire date. A licence that lapses raises a flag the day it does, not at the next audit.

Compliant and certified

The stack we operate, and the credentials we operate it with.

Diligence goes both ways. This is what we run, what we integrate, and what the engineers who touch your estate are certified in.

Office Technology

The estate your staff touch every day, run end to end rather than advised on.

  • Microsoft 365
  • Intune
  • Laptop build and configuration
  • Starter and leaver process
  • CCTV and access control
  • Telephony
  • Printing and document management

IT Infrastructure

Underneath it: the servers themselves, the network, the identity estate and what guards them.

  • Windows Server
  • Milestone
  • Azure
  • Defender
  • Server build and configuration
  • Hyper-V and vSphere virtualisation
  • Network administration
  • System administration
  • DNS security hardening
  • FortiGate firewalls
  • Backup and disaster recovery

CRM and ERP

The systems the business is actually run on. These are the ones we already operate.

  • Dynamics 365
  • Seller Central
  • Faire
  • Dentally
  • SOE Exact
  • Open Dental

Integrations

The operational and data platforms we join up, across the sectors we work in.

  • AVEVA PI
  • Rockwell
  • Emerson
  • Honeywell
  • Power BI

Cybersecurity Certified

The certifications the engineers who touch your estate actually hold.

  • Burp Suite
  • Google SecOps

Why us

Nobody else is put together like this.

Specialists by sector, advisers who ran technology inside the funds themselves, and AI doing enough of the lifting to change what a small senior team delivers. Separately, none of that is rare. Together it is.

  1. No guesswork

    Senior engineers with a named sector behind them, not a bench assigned to whatever came in this week.

  2. We already speak your language

    Our advisers came from some of the largest private equity firms in the world. Nobody here needs a TSA deadline, an IC paper or a 100 day plan explained to them.

  3. AI where it earns its place

    We build, audit and replicate in a fraction of the time the same work took two years ago.

  4. Where we work

    The UK, North America and Europe, from 6 offices. Asia next.