Last year, every portco needed an AI story.
This year, your portfolio's AI strategy needs to bear fruit.
Midici works with private equity and growth equity firms and their portfolio companies. We find the AI opportunities most likely to move EBITDA in each company, help the team capture them and measure what changed.
Midici is an end-to-end AI Value Creation Partner for PE firms and their portfolio companies
We work in three stages, in the order a firm usually needs them: assess, plan, then enable and build. You can start with whichever one fits the problem in front of you. Our forward-deployed team of operators and engineers does the work at every stage.
Assess
Portfolio AI Assessments
We score every company in your portfolio on the value AI could create and its readiness to capture it, so you know which companies to start with.
Plan
AI Value Creation Action Plans
In four weeks, we score every AI opportunity in a company and deliver a 90-day plan of the projects most likely to move EBITDA.
Enable and build
AI Enablement & Custom Development
1:1 AI advising for executives and Heads of AI, training, AI-ready data infrastructure, co-managed implementation and custom development. Your team directs the work, and can run it after we leave.
Has AI moved EBITDA in your portfolio yet? Could you measure it if it had?
LPs and boards now ask what AI has returned. Returns still come from the same drivers: revenue growth, margin expansion, debt paydown, strategic acquisitions and the exit multiple. With financial engineering carrying less of the return, AI has to move one of them, and you need to be able to show it. We focus AI work on the projects that move these drivers, and measure the change so you can report it.
We work with the firm and with your portfolio companies
We work with the firm on portfolio-wide decisions, and with each company's leadership team on the work inside the company.
Financial sponsors
We score every company on the same measures, deliver the projects with each company's team, and measure results against a baseline, so you can report to LPs on what AI has delivered.
Company CEOs
Experienced operators work alongside your team on the opportunities most likely to move your numbers, and hand over everything we build so your team can run it.
Why firms trust us with their portfolio companies
We're operators who scaled and sold to private equity
Jessica and Craig led product and engineering at Packback through scaling to $26M ARR and its acquisition by Providence Strategic Growth in 2024, and Jessica remained for two years under private equity ownership. We know what a sponsor expects of a management team because we have delivered it.
Meet the teamWe have built AI products for over a decade, long before ChatGPT
Craig led engineering at Narrative Science, the Chicago pioneer in natural language generation later acquired by Salesforce. At Packback, we deployed our own AI models from 2016 and later built on large language models to moderate student discussion, give instant writing feedback and detect AI-generated text, for millions of students and more than 10,000 instructors.
We apply scientific rigor to measurement
Our CTO, Dr. Craig Booth, spent a decade as a computational astrophysicist at Durham University, Leiden Observatory and the University of Chicago. His 2009 model of black hole growth remains a standard component of leading cosmological simulations, including EAGLE, BAHAMAS and FLAMINGO, and his research has been cited more than 8,000 times. We apply the same rigor to our frameworks for assessing AI maturity and opportunity across a portfolio, and to our structured AI Value Creation Action Plan process with individual companies.
The Midici team has been recognized in:
