Private Equity Leaders Could Not See What AI Was Doing

Private Equity Data Guy · Oct 29, 2026 · 37m · transcript

Phil Murphy and I cut through the buzz and give you a practical, no-nonsense playbook for actually getting AI working in a PE-backed services business. You won’t get a vendor pitch here — we mandated adoption rather than piloted it, and that forced reality to surface fast. The mandate was simple: every functional leader pick one real, recurring workflow, baseline it, and run it with AI. I let them pick the how; I removed the option not to try. What broke wasn’t the models — it was inconsistent processes, scattered data, and tribal knowledge hiding in inboxes and spreadsheets. So you and I…