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One record of AI, across the portfolio.

Most operating partner teams cannot answer, today, where AI is being deployed across their book, what it costs, whether it is producing anything, or which portfolio company has already solved the problem the next one is about to start. Airframe is the system of record that holds those answers in one place, kept current as the portfolio moves.

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What an operating partner sees

A live ledger of AI inside every portfolio company, read across the book.

Airframe runs the same five-surface workspace that operators inside a single company use, plus a portfolio layer on top. Every portco gets its own Research, Registry, Renewals, Transformation, and Context tabs. Operating partners see the roll-up, with the ability to drop into any single company without a new login or a new vendor on the cap table.

Three modes

One operating system, scoped against where the portco actually is.

Mode 01
Stand up
No central AI function in the portco yet. Procurement happening on expense reports.

No AI function in the portco yet. Stand it up.

The thesis assumed AI would be a value-creation lever, and nobody on the management team owns it. Procurement is happening on expense reports, three department heads have signed three different copilots, and the board question keeps getting longer.

Airframe maps the existing footprint through Research, consolidates it in the Registry, and runs Renewals against contracts already inside ninety days of auto-renewal. Transformation seats a senior operator inside the portco for the first ninety days and hands the management team a named AI owner with a backlog. Context keeps the operating partner in the same view.

A function that did not exist eight weeks earlier, a named owner inside the management team, a clean spend baseline, and a value-creation roadmap the board can hold the CEO to.

Mode 02
Scale
An AI function exists. The value-creation plan calls for it to drive specific margin.

An AI function exists. Scale against the plan.

The portco has a head of AI and a handful of working deployments, but adoption is uneven and the CFO cannot tie spend to outcome. The value-creation plan calls for a specific point of margin, a specific shape on the bridge to exit, and nobody knows which deployments are actually moving the line.

Research benchmarks the portco against 1,425 vendors and 114,000+ deployment case studies. Registry holds the deployment posture against EBITDA-tied milestones agreed with the GP. Renewals turns each contract cycle into a consolidation event. Transformation embeds senior operators inside the highest-value workflows with outcomes tracked back to those targets.

Deployments tied to EBITDA-tied value-creation targets, a quarterly cadence the GP can defend at the LP level, and a portco that knows which AI work is producing margin and which is not.

Mode 03
Run
The function is working. The question shifts from build to maintain.

The function is running. Keep it that way.

Tools drift. Vendors get acquired. A consolidated workflow fragments because somebody on a single team brought in a point solution that did not get retired. The peer cohort moves and the portco's posture, current today, is two quarters out of date by next board meeting.

Renewals watches every contract across the book and flags the ones to consolidate before auto-renewal. Registry stays current as the vendor landscape moves. Research keeps the peer-cohort comparison fresh. Transformation stays embedded at a lighter touch. Context gives the partner a single view across every portco.

Continuity. The function does not regress between board meetings, drift is caught before it shows up on a vendor invoice, and the partner spends time on the portcos that need the partner.

The engagement

Six weeks, then a partnership.

The same six weeks of stack mapping, vendor consolidation, and a first agent rollout. From there, the engagement shapes around the modes above and stays current as the portfolio moves.

01
Weeks 1–6
Build the picture

Stack mapping in each named portco. Vendor consolidation pass on every contract inside ninety days of renewal. First agent rollout. Senior operator embedded from week one.

02
From there
Scale or run, against the plan

Mode 02 or 03 deployment by portco maturity. EBITDA-tied deployments tracked at a quarterly review the partner can take to the GP without rewriting.

03
Always-on
The book on a single screen

Renewals and Context running continuously across the book. Drift caught before billing, not after. The work between board meetings is no longer invisible.

04
Membership
The partnership compounds

Annual partner subscription on founding-portfolio terms. The full surface across the book, no per-portco contracting. Continuity as portcos exit and enter.

Why this, now

AI is being deployed inside every portfolio company. The board wants one number, one view, one source.

In 2026, every portco is running pilots. Most of them are running pilots their CFO cannot fully account for, their head of AI cannot fully see, and their operating partner cannot compare against the portco next door. The question moving up from board decks is not whether AI is happening; it is what it is producing, and where the duplication is, and who already solved this. Airframe is built to answer that question.

We hold no vendor positions, take no vendor money, and run no sponsored research. The only incentive is the operator's. How Airframe works, end to end →

Operating partners

If you run AI across a portfolio, the next conversation is the right one.

A small group of operating partner teams is using Airframe across their book today. We work with one to three new partner teams a quarter; introductions go through hello@airframe.ai or any partner already in the cohort.

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Airframe · 2026 Privately underwritten. No vendor money, no sponsored research, no paid placement.
Registry 17,000+ tools · 114,000+ case studies · 1,425 vendors, 1974–2026.
Vendor conflicts Zero. The subscription is paid the same regardless of which tool the registry recommends.
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