Searchfunders using AI in their new company's ops

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by an member from Columbia University in New York City, NY, USA

2w ago

Searchfunders using AI in their new company's ops

Hey everyone! Super interested in how searchfunders are thinking about AI in their newly acquired companies. Most of the targets I see are great businesses with fairly old-school ops, which feels like a goldmine for AI-driven efficiency gains. But I'm wondering if that's actually playing out in practice or if it's more of a distraction in the first 12 months when you're focused on the transition. Curious what people think: is AI a day-one priority post-close, or something you table until the business is stabilized?

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Reply by a searcher 2w ago
from The University of Chicago in Nashville, TN, USA

It's useful from Day 1 as tool to help you learn the basics about taxes, state regulations, your existing tech stack, reviewing data, pulling together customer info, helping review the long documents you have to sign etc. I was able to fake my way through most of those problems that arose in the first 90 days. The big picture stuff has been more challenging. While I have a fair amount of data, it isn't in a computer friendly format (ie on paper, in different systems, formatting changes over time, etc.) and we don't have formal procedures we follow, which makes it hard to tell AI what to do. Some companies are probably ready to get started on day-one but a lot of the Searcher size deals likely need some up front work.

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