FEATURED | Jun 01, 2026
Most integrations fail before they start. The information gaps that cause problems at month six were visible at close.
The compounding intelligence edge
In private equity, edge is hard to define and harder to hold. One form of it that almost no firm is building deliberately: the ability to compound what you know across deals.
Why sub-$500M deals are chronically under-diligenced
Full commercial due diligence costs $1–2M. For a $2 billion deal, that's a rounding error. For a $200 million deal, it's close to 1% of the transaction value.
AI-Enabled vs. AI-Native: the distinction that will define next gen consulting firms
Most consulting firms using AI are AI-enabled. A few are AI-native.
Consultants can do better than consumer-grade AI tools
Claude and ChatGPT fail on client engagements for a specific reason: plausibility is not a sourcing standard.
What "AI strategy" means & how to talk about it in your organization
Most documents called "AI Strategy" are implementation plans. Here's what an actual AI strategy looks like.
Measuring AI ROI & why you shouldn't do it
"Which AI use cases have the highest ROI?" is a reasonable procurement question but a bad transformation question.