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How a PE Firm's Acquisitions Lead Ran an AI Agent Against His Own 80-Hour Comp, Then Called Off Two Analyst Hires

Sep 10, 2026

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10 min read

How a PE Firm's Acquisitions Lead Ran an AI Agent Against His Own 80-Hour Comp, Then Called Off Two Analyst Hires

Axia Partners, a Utah firm that buys RV parks, needed 80 analyst hours to run the comparable analysis on a single park and was about to hire two analysts to keep up. Connor McLeod and SageCreek built an AI agent that does it in a day, sitting next to the acquisitions lead while he did the work by hand. He ran it against his own comp, then cancelled the hires himself. Plus the same team taking park rebrands from 20 weeks to 4, and the most-read cases in the library.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How a Clinical Trial Platform Took 1,000+ Hours of Manual Matching Off the Table, and How a Compliance Startup Got Acquired After Making Its AI Explain Itself

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

How a Clinical Trial Platform Took 1,000+ Hours of Manual Matching Off the Table, and How a Compliance Startup Got Acquired After Making Its AI Explain Itself

Plus a venture firm that put an AI assistant inside its LP data room and got 60+ hours a month back. Three builds from Bryson Greenwood of PressW, who answered five questions on how each one was done.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How a $10B PE Firm Got 92% Weekly ChatGPT Use After Its First AI Project Failed

Aug 18, 2026

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8 min read

How a $10B PE Firm Got 92% Weekly ChatGPT Use After Its First AI Project Failed

The three-phase method Brian Benedict and Eliza used to turn a stalled ChatGPT Enterprise license into CIM write-ups in under two minutes, including why, in his words, they gave it "permission to say no." Plus the same team taking a receipts backlog from days to same-day in under four weeks, and the most-read cases in the library.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How a PE-Backed SaaS Firm Found $700K Its AI Rollout Was Missing

Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

How a PE-Backed SaaS Firm Found $700K Its AI Rollout Was Missing

The P&L-first playbook Jimmy Bijlani of AI Momentum Partners used to ship one workflow in four weeks. Plus Csongor Barabasi of Bonsai Labs on cutting healthcare time-to-hire 5X, and the most-read cases in the library this week.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How an Acquisitive Manufacturer Collapsed 15 Systems Into One Source of Truth, and How a PE-Backed Distributor Cut Board Packs From Four Days to Four Hours

Jul 31, 2026

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6 min read

How an Acquisitive Manufacturer Collapsed 15 Systems Into One Source of Truth, and How a PE-Backed Distributor Cut Board Packs From Four Days to Four Hours

Case studies from Murali Vivekanandan of Ideas2IT and Yayati Tanwar of Pluto AI, both on giving PE-backed companies a real-time view of their own numbers. Plus the most-read cases in our AI Use Case Library this week.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How an Injection Molding Manufacturer Replaced Days-Long Quoting With Seven-Click Instant Quote, and How a Finance Team Cut Month-End Close From 10 Days to 1

Jul 24, 2026

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6 min read

How an Injection Molding Manufacturer Replaced Days-Long Quoting With Seven-Click Instant Quote, and How a Finance Team Cut Month-End Close From 10 Days to 1

Case studies from Alex Gruebele and Chandler Gonzalez of Tau9 Labs, and Kenny Jen of QuantFi. Plus: more than 180 new cases added to the library last week.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How a $1B Hedge Fund Cut Call Prep From 60 Minutes to 5, and How a Fortune 500 CPG Team Got Every Data Answer Right

Jul 17, 2026

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5 min read

How a $1B Hedge Fund Cut Call Prep From 60 Minutes to 5, and How a Fortune 500 CPG Team Got Every Data Answer Right

Case studies from Jay Singh of Casper Studios and Aanikh Kler of Lazer Technologies, both about getting work out of the analyst queue and trusting the answer. Plus this week's podcast with Jimmy Bijlani.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

Artificial Intelligence

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How a Restoration Firm Turned Its CEO's Negotiating Instinct Into Recovered Revenue on Every Job, and How a 70-Year-Old Manufacturer Cut Engineering Time 60% Without a New Hire

Jun 26, 2026

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5 min read

How a Restoration Firm Turned Its CEO's Negotiating Instinct Into Recovered Revenue on Every Job, and How a 70-Year-Old Manufacturer Cut Engineering Time 60% Without a New Hire

Case studies from Jack Soslow & Jack Weissenberger of Ciridae and Justin Massa & Jason Rubinstein of Remix Partners, both about doing more with the team you already have. Plus both firms' podcast interviews.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

case study

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How a DTC Brand Proved Paid Search Returns 4x Paid Social, and How a PE Roll-Up Found 40% of Its Work Was Redundant

Jun 19, 2026

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6 min read

How a DTC Brand Proved Paid Search Returns 4x Paid Social, and How a PE Roll-Up Found 40% of Its Work Was Redundant

Case studies from Alex Lirtsman of CorralData and Felix Rösner of Marble, both about seeing what the data was hiding. Plus this week's podcast with Doyl Burkett, Managing Partner of Integrity Growth Partners.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

case study

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How a Fiber ISP Cleared Its Dispatch Bottleneck, and How Sunrun Found $80M in Hidden R&D Waste

Jun 5, 2026

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6 min read

How a Fiber ISP Cleared Its Dispatch Bottleneck, and How Sunrun Found $80M in Hidden R&D Waste

Two more operator case studies this week — Jordan Gurrieri of BlueLabel and Adam Schwartz of Parable — plus my conversation with CorralData's Alex Lirtsman on why most companies are only "data-adjacent," and a new piece on how to tell who's actually good at AI.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

case study

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84% Lower Cost, 5x Deeper Investment Committee Prep: Two Builds From our AI Use Case Library

May 29, 2026

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5 min read

84% Lower Cost, 5x Deeper Investment Committee Prep: Two Builds From our AI Use Case Library

Case studies from Chris Taylor (Fractional AI) and Osman Ghandour (Soal Labs). Plus a fresh podcast with Tom Scott. Welcome to the new format.

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

case study

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Where AI Value Actually Came From in 2025 (Strategic Moves 4-6)

Jan 29, 2026

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25 min read

Where AI Value Actually Came From in 2025 (Strategic Moves 4-6)

Six more case studies on deterministic systems, earned adoption, and compressing time-to-value

Stu Willson
Stu Willson

case study

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Where AI Value Actually Came From in 2025 (Key Strategies 1-3)

Jan 28, 2026

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39 min read

Where AI Value Actually Came From in 2025 (Key Strategies 1-3)

11 case studies showing how teams moved decisions upstream, removed human middleware, and built systems that finish work

Stu Willson
Stu Willson
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