Recruiting that keeps pace with growth.
AI sourcing for a PE-owned IT services firm, increasing fill rates by 40%.
For investors
Grow portfolio EBITDA with AI.
We help deal teams assess the AI upside and help operating partners realize it. With investment experience and specialist AI expertise, we deliver from diligence through deployment.
Start a conversationHow we'd work with you
- Free, 90 min
We find the opportunity
Review your pipeline or portfolio together. Identify where AI could improve margins, unlock growth, or change the investment case.
- Typical: 1–2 weeks
We size the upside
We quantify the potential EBITDA gain, the cost to deliver it, and where AI won't pay off.
- Typical: 2–3 weeks
We validate the thesis
A working prototype on real data to validate the upside and ground the delivery plan.
- Typical: 4–6 weeks, then ongoing
We do not stop until ROI is delivered
Build, support adoption, and measure results. Expand where the economics justify it.
Our Services
Deal sourcing & screening
Find and prioritize acquisition targets that fit your investment thesis.
AI Opportunity Mapping
Find and rank the processes in each portfolio company where AI moves EBITDA.
Capacity for growth
Remove bottlenecks in processes that require expert judgment so the business can serve more demand.
Margin improvement
Improve pricing and reduce costly work and errors.
New revenue streams
Turn proprietary data and expertise into AI products and services customers will pay for.
Value Delivered
- ~$5Mannual savings from AI sourcing at a PE-owned IT services firm
- <20 minutesper credit valuation, down from 3–8 hours
- $450Kannual return from AI search for a legal staffing firm
Talent Finance Valuations in minutes.
From 3–8 hours to under 20 minutes, with every value traced to source and experts signing off.
Talent More value from specialist recruiting.
AI search for a legal staffing firm: 20 out of 20 pilot searches matched or beat recruiters. $450K annual return.
“Crisp’s work paid for itself nearly 10 times over.”
Questions
- How does Crisp Labs help private equity funds create value with AI?
- Crisp Labs works with PE funds and their operating partners to find where AI lifts EBITDA in each portfolio company. It then designs, builds and rolls out production AI systems, carrying reusable components from one company to the next so each rollout costs less than the last.
- How does Crisp Labs support AI due diligence for private equity acquisitions?
- Crisp Labs helps PE deal teams assess how AI could affect a target’s revenue, margins, and competitive position. We examine the data, technical requirements, and implementation costs behind the proposed upside, helping inform the investment case and post-close value-creation plan.
- How is the EBITDA impact of an AI project measured across a portfolio?
- Crisp Labs ties every AI system to a business metric from the start and measures EBITDA impact per portfolio company, so funds can report it to their LPs. Before building, Crisp Labs ranks the processes in each company by where AI moves EBITDA, and if an initiative lacks ROI, it tells the client first.