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How PE funds approach AI: buy, build or consult

1 of 10 answers to open the resultsOpen · started Nov 9

For AI transformation at portfolio companies, what's your main approach?

Buy software platforms
Our own team or forward-deployed engineers build with models like Claude
Outside consulting firms lead it
Leave it to each portfolio company
Not doing much yet

Over the past year, which way has your fund's thinking moved?

Toward buying
Toward building
Toward using consultants
No real change

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we're starting to see the limitations with buying tools that then aren't connected across fund strategies or connected to firmwide data/context.

Growth equityUnder $5BPartner or MD

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