AI for Private Equity: Compounding Returns on Your Firm and Your Portfolio
Thursday 25 June 2026 · 8:00 to 10:00am · One Heddon Street, Regent Street, London W1B 4BD
A breakfast briefing for principals and operators of small-to-mid PE firms. Hosted by AI Powered.
You've put money into AI across the companies you own. The question is whether any of it has turned into EBITDA yet.
For most firms it hasn't. The spend shows up in the budget, not the EBITDA. And a gap is forming between the firms treating AI as a chat box and the ones who've worked out how to make it actually grow the value of what they own.
We're still very early, and seriously nobody's behind… yet. But a real first-mover advantage is opening up, and right now it's quiet. It won't stay quiet. The firms pulling ahead aren't the ones with the biggest AI budgets, they got their hands dirty early, figured out what works, and put it to work where it counts: inside the companies they own.
Over breakfast we'll show you how, through live demonstrations of the tools setting the pace, including the latest from Claude (Anthropic): agents that run multi-step work, skills and plugins that let AI plug straight into a business's systems, and routines that turn one team into the output of five.
Get this right inside your own house first, then turn the same capability into a value-creation lever across the whole book.
This is about making your people AI-powered, not AI-replaced.
What you'll learn
How AI plays as a portfolio value-creation lever, and how to roll a repeatable approach across the whole book.
How frontier AI has changed in the last twelve months, and why "agents, skills and plugins" matter more than "chatbots".
Where it shows up first inside your own firm, and how a lean team punches above its weight.
What good and bad look like: the common ways firms burn six months on the wrong AI initiatives.
What you'll walk away with
A concrete shortlist of the highest-leverage use cases across your portfolio, and your firm.
A clear, current mental model of what today's AI can and can't do.
Live demos, agents, skills and plugins doing real work, so you're judging from evidence.
A practical first-90-days view of where to start
Is this for me / my firm?
This is built for small-to-mid PE firms that move quickly and get that one capability can reshape both how they run and what they own.
Principals and operators thinking seriously about how AI fits the way they run their firm and, above all, how it lifts the value of their portfolio. If you want to meet others doing the same, hear what's actually working in your field, and spot the opportunities you might be missing, you should be in the room.
Why now
Every generation has a window where technology shifts from interesting to essential.
PCs in the eighties. Email in the nineties. Bloomberg, mobile, the cloud.
AI is in that window now, and we're still early enough that you can lead both inside your firm, and most importantly with your portfolio companies.