An operator for the fund.Always on.
From the target's data room through every year of the hold. Aria speaks the operating language of a partner-level consultant, integrates in days, and stays for the full cycle — because private equity is the only category where always-on operational intelligence matches the buyer's actual time horizon.
First 100 days
The integration management office that doesn't leave on day 101.
From day one, Aria runs the IMO — tracking synergy realization against the deal thesis, flagging integration risks surfaced from the combined company's own systems, and translating every Slack escalation into a dollar impact against the sponsor's value creation plan. When the hundred days are up, Aria stays. The operating model she built during integration becomes the always-on operator for the rest of the hold.
- Deliverable
- Live synergy tracker · daily integration risk digest · always-on handoff to hold-period ops
- Timing
- Day-1 readiness within 10 business days of close
- Integration
- Read/write across the combined company's tool stack under scoped OAuth 2.1
The other wedges across the fund lifecycle
- 01Pre-closeAccepting design partners
Operational due diligence
Tear apart a target's operations in a week, cited to the source system.
Connect Aria to the target's Slack, Jira, CRM, and ERP under NDA. By Friday, the deal team has a ranked operational risk register with every finding traced to a specific message, ticket, or record — not a consultant's summary.
- Deliverable
- Ranked operational risk register with source citations
- Timing
- Five business days from data room access
- Integration
- Read-only OAuth to the target's tool stack
- 03Year 1 — 5Waitlist open
EBITDA uplift
Cost takeout, pricing, and working capital — deployed as agents.
Aria runs three continuous programs inside each portco: cost variance hunting, pricing leakage detection, and working capital optimization. Every finding ships with a deployable agent, a named owner, and a timestamp to P&L.
- Deliverable
- Continuously refreshing intervention backlog, dollar-sized
- Timing
- First P&L impact within thirty days of portco deployment
- Integration
- Read/write to portco ERP, CRM, and finance stack
- 04Year 4 — 7On the roadmap
Exit readiness
A vendor DD file that writes itself.
Four months before a planned sale, Aria produces the vendor due diligence package the way a rational buyer will read it. Operating narrative, variance bridges, synergy realization evidence, risk register — cited to the company's own data and continuously refreshable until buyer engagement.
- Deliverable
- Audit-ready vendor DD package + management presentation source material
- Timing
- Initial draft thirty days from scoping
- Integration
- Read access to finance, ops, and commercial systems
- 05Fund-wideOn the roadmap
Portfolio intelligence
Cross-portfolio benchmarks, propagated automatically.
One Aria per portco, one conversation per partner. Ask which of twenty-eight portcos is bleeding working capital this quarter, or where in the portfolio the pricing playbook has already paid back — and get cited answers in seconds. Every operational win in one portco becomes an agent ready to deploy in the next.
- Deliverable
- Fund-wide conversational layer over federated portco Arias
- Timing
- Available once three or more portcos are live
- Integration
- Federated read across portco deployments
Same wedges. Your vocabulary.
The wedges are shaped around the PE lifecycle, but the operating problems inside them — integration, cost, working capital, AI deployment — are universal. If your title sits inside an operating company rather than a fund, start here.
- COO · Operating Partner
Where is my operation bleeding money today?
Aria observes the operation from the systems work actually happens in, sizes every bottleneck in dollars, and ships the agents that fix the top of the list.
Start with EBITDA Uplift - CFO
Which operational programs will move EBITDA this quarter?
Three continuous programs — cost variance hunting, pricing leakage detection, working capital optimization — each with a named owner and a timestamp to P&L.
Start with EBITDA Uplift - Head of Corporate Development
What operational risk are we inheriting?
Connect Aria to the target's tool stack under NDA. By Friday, a ranked operational risk register cited to specific Slack messages, Jira tickets, and ERP rows.
Start with Operational Due Diligence - AI · Digital Leader
Which workflows should we automate — and what will they save?
A dollar-sized, deployable agent backlog inside a real operational program. Before-and-after telemetry on every deployment. No six-month pilot that never grows up.
Start with EBITDA Uplift
The McKinsey engagement ends at month six. The IMO wraps at day one hundred. Aria stays for the hold.
Funds hold portfolio companies for years, not quarters. That is the horizon Aria is built for — not a one-time diagnostic that ships a slide deck and leaves, but an operator that learns the company during diligence, runs the integration, and keeps compounding operational knowledge through every year of the hold.
of PE firms plan to increase operational AI investment by 25% or more
KPMG 2025 Global PE Value Creation Survey
of M&A deals miss expectations; 83% of failed deals cite poor integration
Harvard Business Review · Bain · McKinsey
median hold period; 16,000+ portcos now held longer than four years
Bain Global Private Equity Report 2026
What a CFO and a CISO can both sign.
Aria connects to the sensitive surfaces of a portfolio company. The trust stack is not an afterthought — it is the ship gate. Every control below is scoped before a single OAuth token is issued.
- SOC 2 Type II
Independent controls audit over security, availability, and confidentiality of the Aria platform.
In scoping · targeted Q3 2026 - ISO 42001
AI management system standard — the certification your CISO will ask for on every AI vendor by 2027.
Gap assessment underway - EU AI Act deployer-ready
Article 4 literacy, Article 50 transparency, and logging obligations scoped ahead of August 2026.
Implementation in progress - Zero Data Retention
Contractual ZDR with the model provider. Customer data is never used to train foundation models.
Platform-wide default - Tool-call audit + kill switch
Every action Aria takes against a source system is logged, attributable, and reversible — with a runtime kill switch on sensitive tool calls.
Built-in - Scoped OAuth 2.1, least agency
Aria receives the narrowest token the work requires. Human-in-the-loop confirmation on write actions above a configurable threshold.
Platform-wide default
Two PE funds, one portco each, one hundred days.
We are accepting two PE fund partners this quarter to run the First 100 days wedge on a fresh close. Outcome-based commercials, weekly operating readouts to the deal partner, full audit trail. In return: the right to name the benchmark case study.