TL;DR: We made an AI system that reads through a company's information (communications, documents, databases - whatever they want to analyze) and finds concrete, actionable steps they can take to improve their business and make it more efficient.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SxuAHO3-0WEjPPqZUkK-39jWfitRvlQj

The Product 

Large companies are extremely complex systems. As soon as a company scales past fifty or so employees, it becomes totally impossible for an executive to know every single thing that happens at a company. This means that, since everyone at a company only understands a small slice of what's going on, it's essentially inevitable that inefficiencies arise on a global level that aren't visible at smaller scales. Before Cerenovus, this was a very difficult problem to tackle, because there was just too much information for any one person to have the whole picture. Cerenovus changes this.

Here's how Cerenovus works:

First, Cerenovus ingests the company's information. This looks differently for every company based on their priorities and existing systems, but typically this means hooking into documents, communications and databases that the company wants to analyze, and bringing all the information together in one place.

Next, Cerenovus runs an AI-powered synthesis pipeline to organize the information and map out all existing systems and workflows. Once the system has mapped out how things work at a company, it scans for a wide variety of common failure modes, and does open-ended analysis to find places where processes can be streamlined. Finally, its findings are compiled into polished, cited briefs, reviewed and validated by humans, and then shipped back to our clients.

We're looking to sell to any business interested in optimizing their business, making sense of information, and leveraging AI to the greatest extent possible. However, the people that can use our product the most are the ones that do this kind of optimization repeatedly: private equity value creation teams, exit planners, and operational consulting firms.

The Lore

We're three ex-Harvard nerds who were brainstorming in a library one night, and found that we were all (in different ways) interested in the problem of knowledge organization. Jonathan was obsessed with building out a personal "second brain" for himself in Obsidian; Ollie had worked on building agent harnesses that could self-improve by updating their internal knowledge base; and Lucas had seen how, whenever a company got acquired by the private equity firm he worked at, people within the company didn't have the full picture of how work got done. We decided to leave school and build our idea together, and the months since have been a blur of coding, conferences, and customer calls.

The Ask

We'd love to be connected to:

- Private Equity Value Creation Teams

- Exit Planners

- Operational Consultants

- Innovative middle-market businesses looking to improve their operations