We transform your fund and your portfolio companies with AI.
CHOC is an AI value creation studio for private equity. We work on the fund’s internal agenda as much as on the operational performance of its portfolio companies.
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Forward Deployed Strategy
Four steps, held by a small team and powered by AI. The first two set the strategy. The next two go through our AI Studio, which builds the bespoke tools.
Analyse
Interviews with executives, teams and the market; company data; benchmarks. Our agents read the whole corpus, not a sample.
The four or five subjects that make the value.
Structure
The trajectory, quantified, written with the executive committee: initiatives, owners, milestones, indicators. One document fit for the board, the investors and the teams.
A trajectory everyone can read.
Build
The AI Studio builds the tools that move the plan forward, on your data and inside your processes: what took three days takes one. Alongside it, monthly review, decisions, subjects taken back in hand.
Tools in service, a plan that moves.
Sustain
The tools built during the mission stay in service, your teams run them, the governance works without us.
An autonomous team, tools in service.
Everything is decided in the execution. So we build the tools.
The CHOC AI Studio builds, during the mission and on your data, the tools that put the plan to work. Three examples, born from an advisory mission.
The Helm
Born with Argos Wityu
Steering a fund’s portfolio: the thesis becomes a plan of initiatives, linked to actual KPIs and to the exit scenario.
See The Helm →
Lawesome
Born with Aconic Avocats
Legal research and drafting for a law firm, on official sources and its own files — every answer cites its references.
ESG due diligence
Born with Siparex
Double materiality, a maturity score argued line by line, KPI priorities: the diligence of large deals, delivered in four days.
A selection of typical missions.
For the fund
Outsourced Operating Partner
A senior operating partner, AI-equipped — and therefore within reach of a mid-cap or small-cap fund with no value creation team.
- Takes part in the investment process: due diligence, committee
- Runs the monthly operational review of each portfolio company
- Steps in personally at the key portfolio companies
Minimum 1 day / week · 12 months
Chief AI Officer
The Chief AI Officer of the fund and its portfolio, without the hire.
- An AI doctrine that stands up to an LP and to a CIO alike
- Assessment of the impact of AI, company by company
- The use cases for the investment team
- Training and bringing the teams up to speed
- Deployment of in-house AI tools
3 to 6 weeks for the doctrine and the roadmap, then minimum 1 day / week · 12 months
The fund’s own performance
The fund’s manual work, taken over and tooled with AI.
- Consolidation and reconciliation of spreadsheets
- Internal reporting and LP presentations
- Ad hoc tools
3 weeks and up
For its portfolio companies
Due diligence
We run the interviews and the analysis; while our AI goes through the whole corpus.
- Strategic, commercial and operational — 2 to 3 weeks
- AI strategy — 7 days
- Impact and ESG — 4 days
Full time, on the deal calendar
CEO sparring partner
A peer at your side, so you do not decide alone.
- Building the strategy and the roadmap
- Helping you settle the key trade-offs
- Cash, team, sales
- The introductions that unlock things: experts, peers, partners
3 days / month · 12 months
Value creation plan
The development and growth trajectory of the company, built with your executive committee.
- Top line: sales, marketing, pricing
- Bottom line: operational performance, supply chain, organisation
- Cash and financing
Structured into initiatives, each with an owner, quantified KPIs and deadlines to meet.
2 months half-time, then minimum 1 day / month
Buy-and-build: acquisition and integration
From target to day 180.
- The integration thesis before signing
- The first 15 days run day by day
- Orchestrating the delivery of synergies: target organisation, systems, people
4 weeks before closing, then 1 to 3 days / week over 1 year
Operational performance
One specific subject whose performance has to change: sales, marketing, a supply chain process, a function that costs too much.
- A quantified diagnostic, whole corpus read by AI
- The right experts brought in on it
- The improvement plan, then its rollout through to the result
2 weeks of diagnostic, 3 weeks of plan, then 1 day / week over 1 year
Restructuring
A company restructuring from A to Z, with AI as a lever.
- A concrete plan at one week, 3 months and one year
- Coordination of the advisers, lawyers and administrators
- Interim management when the mandate calls for it
Diagnostic in 2 weeks. 100-day plan in 2 weeks. Then minimum 1 day / week over 1 year.
Small cap, mid cap and large cap.
Structuring the fund’s operating team in the age of AI.
The impact. The Helm, born of this mission — steering a PE portfolio.
The value creation plan built with the CEO and the executive committee, in 100 days.
The impact. A plan owned by the management team, and the trust for what comes next.
The impact of generative AI on a portfolio, function by function — ahead of everyone.
The impact. Briefs that were used to train the bank’s managers.
Structuring and running the post-acquisition transformation plan. Three months, renewed up to eleven.
The impact. Some ten initiatives — growth, margin, cash — run to the end, then the baton handed over internally.
Digital strategy and an app prototype to open up primary care.
The impact. A digital department created straight afterwards.
Building the value creation plan after the buyout.
The impact. A structured plan — and a conviction: a plan lives through the internal owner who carries it.
ESG strategy in four months: interviews, double materiality, actionable priorities.
The impact. A strategy the group applies, not a report.
Competitive position and strategic options of a digital brand in a new market context.
The impact. A clear reading of the market for the fund’s decision.
ESG due diligence of Rumeur Publique in four days, with an action plan.
The impact. A reusable method: materiality, maturity, benchmark, priorities, monitoring.
What portfolio company CEOs say about us.
« Louis-Jean truly stood out over our many collaborations, notably when he took on the role of interim director to drive the Value Creation Plan of a mid-sized company under LBO, on behalf of a demanding private equity investor. He has a particular talent for simplifying complex issues into concrete, workable solutions. His grasp of every aspect — from overall strategy to the subtleties of mergers and acquisitions — is impressive. He also brought a friendly atmosphere, making the collaboration smooth and enjoyable. »
Benjamin C.Partner, Operandi
« Excellent support from Louis-Jean throughout the development of our transformation plan: speed, efficiency, ability to synthesise, relevance and… humour! I highly recommend him. »
Benoît DrillonCEO, Groupe Hexvia
« We worked with CHOC for a year. Louis-Jean’s strategic vision, rigorous methodology, organisational skills, interpersonal style and appetite for change were absolutely decisive in making a success of this initial phase, across every area of the business: sustainability model, integration of acquisitions, efficiency gains, and commercial development. »
Elisabeth C.Transformation Director & Chief of Staff, Ecotone
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