The starting-point problem.
Most companies know AI matters but cannot see the first practical move. Without workflow evidence and value logic, effort scatters into noise.
For private equity · Operating partners
The operating partner your fund can actually justify.
Large funds hire AI Operating Partners at £350–600k a year. Praxis delivers the same capability across your portfolio at roughly a quarter of the cost — with a defined journey from scattered pilots to governed operating capability.
The reality
Every portfolio company is asking where to start.
Every board meeting includes the question. Every CEO wants to know what competitors are doing. The market has moved past curiosity — what's missing is a practical path.
The pilot problem.
Traditional AI projects stop at proof of concept. They never become brain-backed workflows with edge authority, telemetry, adoption routines, and measured ROI.
The bandwidth problem.
Your operating partners are already stretched. Every portfolio company needs guidance — but not every fund can build a full AI adoption team.
The answer
An embedded AI Operating Partner — not a vendor.
We're not a supplier who shows up for isolated builds. We're a resource who knows your companies, spots patterns across the portfolio, and converts AI activity into agentic operating capability — with genuine accountability for outcomes.
Built as an AI-native operating company ourselves, Praxis combines forty years of operational leadership with machine capability that never sleeps. Clearer starting points, faster capability, stronger governance, consistent adoption — across every company we support.
Across the lifecycle
What we do, deal to exit.
Portfolio adoption guidance
Quarterly reviews, on-demand support, and adoption paths tied to each company's value-creation priorities. Patterns spread; mistakes don't repeat.
Agentic OS readiness
Systematic assessment of AI opportunity and readiness. Where is the value? What blocks it? What should happen first?
Sprints & operating systems
Thirty-day sprints deploy governed workflow capability. Full Agentic Operating Systems are installed through 90-day implementation cycles.
AI due diligence
Pre-acquisition assessment: what capability exists, where the operational and financial upside sits, and what the adoption risks are. £8–15k, 2–4 weeks.
Why Praxis
Built different, deliberately.
Agents inside, humans at the edge
We practice the agentic operating model we help others build — forty years of leadership extended by a 24/7 machine substrate.
PE-native
Portfolio dynamics, board cadence, value-creation timelines. No translation required.
Portfolio perspective
Patterns emerge when you see many companies at once. Best practice spreads across the fund.
Outcomes, not reports
We deploy brain-backed workflows, not recommendations. Value creation you can measure.
Begin
One conversation. No pitch deck.
Thirty minutes on where your portfolio actually stands, and the most credible first move.