Find the EBITDA your portfolio is losing to manual work.
The 14-Day EBITDA Finder is an independent AI audit and advisory engagement for PE operating partners. We map, size and prioritize the AI opportunities across your portfolio companies, then hand you a roadmap your board can act on.
Trusted for 2+ years as the AI partner of Digital Growth Equity, a UK private equity firm. Read their storyEvery portco says it is "doing AI." Few can tell you what it is worth.
Pilots without P&L impact
Teams experiment with tools, but nobody ties the work to cost, margin or revenue. The value creation plan stays untouched.
Every portco starts from zero
Each management team reinvents the same evaluation on its own. There is no repeatable playbook across the portfolio.
Data that cannot leave the building
Financials, customer records and deal data are too sensitive to leave the business. So the work stalls.
Fourteen days. Four phases. One clear answer.
Discover
Short interviews with the operating team and portco leadership, under 3 hours per leader in total. We inventory core workflows, systems and data sources.
Baseline and size
We baseline your current numbers, find where time and margin leak, and estimate the savings or revenue each AI opportunity can unlock.
Prioritize and architect
Opportunities ranked by dollar impact, cost and time to value, with a secure architecture for each that keeps data inside your systems.
Present
A board-ready readout and a 90-day roadmap your team can execute with us, with another partner, or in-house.
Every deliverable solves a problem your portfolio already has.
Day-7 Quick Win Report
Your top 3 fastest, lowest-risk AI wins, delivered halfway through the sprint so you have something to act on in week one.
EBITDA Opportunity Map
Every viable AI use case across the portfolio companies in scope, each with a baseline, dollar impact, cost and payback.
Data Readiness Assessment
For each portco: what data exists, where the gaps are and what to fix first before AI can deliver.
Secure Architecture Blueprint
How each AI system runs securely inside your environment, integrated with the systems your portcos already use, with no data leaving it.
Board-Ready Readout and 90-Day Roadmap
Findings formatted to drop straight into the value creation plan and the exit story, with a sequenced 90-day plan.
AI ROI Tracking Framework
The before-and-after KPIs and scorecard that let you prove every future AI result to your IC and LPs.
Workflow Redesign Blueprints
For the top 3 opportunities: how the process actually changes, and who owns what.
Portfolio AI Playbook and Readiness Scorecard
A reusable framework for every future acquisition, from diligence to the 100-day plan.
LP-Ready Governance and Risk Summary
Data handling, access control and model risk, written for LP and compliance conversations.
Leadership AI Briefing
A working session for each portco management team. Total time asked of each leader stays under 3 hours, so the business keeps running.
Your data never leaves your systems.
Every system we recommend is designed so your financials, customer records and deal data stay inside your walls. Nothing is shared outside.
Data stays in your environment
AI runs inside your own environment, so sensitive information is never exposed outside the business.
Nothing shared outside
No sensitive data is sent to outside services. Closed-network setups are supported.
You own the stack
No vendor lock-in. Your systems and your data remain yours.
We already work inside private equity. Across the whole deal cycle.
Unicorn Studio is an AI product team of engineers, not slide-makers. Our recommendations come from building and running AI systems for PE firms and buy-side acquirers, not from theory.
For more than two years, Unicorn Studio has been our AI and technology partner across the whole deal cycle. On the buy side, they built our platform for deal sourcing, valuation, due diligence and outreach, which now sits at the centre of how we find and assess acquisitions. After acquisition, they help us integrate AI into our portfolio companies, and the results have been remarkable: our portfolio companies achieved 2x growth within six months.
What sets Unicorn Studio apart is that they understand how private equity actually works. They start with the business problem, not the technology, listen carefully, welcome feedback and adapt as new information emerges. Saidur and his team bring real energy and ownership to the work.
As a PE owner, I'd recommend Unicorn Studio to any private equity firm or buy-side acquirer that wants to use AI to source better deals and create more value in its portfolio.
Digital Growth Equity
A deal platform covering sourcing, valuation, due diligence and outreach, plus ongoing AI integration across their portfolio companies after acquisition.
White Knight Acquisitions
WKA, a buy-side deal sourcing platform with a Deal Copilot Chrome extension that turns sourcing and screening into a guided, AI-assisted workflow.
$10,000 is the smallest number on this page.
Every dollar of EBITDA you add is multiplied at exit. Our guarantee threshold alone, applied at an illustrative 8x multiple, is worth far more than the fee.
What one line of your Opportunity Map looks like
Every opportunity is sized the same way: a baseline, an impact, a cost and a payback. Illustrative example, not a client result.
| Portco | Opportunity | Baseline today | Est. annual impact | Build cost | Payback | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2B distributor | AI order and invoice processing | 3 staff keying orders manually; 2-day turnaround | $140,000 | $35,000 | 3 months | Quick win |
One sprint. One fixed fee. Zero risk.
This is an audit and advisory engagement only. There is no obligation to build anything with us. If you choose to move forward after the sprint, we will prepare a custom implementation proposal based on your roadmap.
Common questions
Is this a sales pitch for a build project?
No. The sprint is a standalone audit and advisory engagement. You keep the roadmap and can implement it with us, another partner or your own team.
What if you don't find enough opportunities?
Then you don't pay. If we don't identify at least $100,000 in annualized AI opportunities across your portfolio, ten times the fee, we refund the full $10,000, and you still keep every deliverable.
What happens after day 14?
If you want to implement, we prepare a custom proposal based on the priorities in your roadmap. Start the build within 60 days of the readout and the full $10,000 sprint fee is credited toward your build budget. If not, the engagement ends with the readout.
How do you handle our sensitive data?
Every system we recommend is designed so that no data leaves your systems. Your financials, customer records and deal data stay inside the business.
Who should be involved on our side?
Typically an operating partner as sponsor, plus leadership and key process owners at each portfolio company in scope. We keep it light: under 3 hours of each portco leader's time across the full 14 days.
Know exactly where AI pays off in your portfolio. In 14 days.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We will confirm scope, timing and whether the sprint is the right fit for your fund.