Companies with an ambition and a number on it.
You bring us in directly — as a project to deliver a specific result, or as an interim operator to build and run a function. We diagnose the metric, build the fix with AI, and own it.
Start a diagnosticThe operating partner that builds the fix and owns the result.
We set the metric to move with you, build the fix with AI, and drive the change through. Not a plan you're left to implement. Not a dev shop.
What we do
Diagnose the metric. Build the fix. Own the result.
Every engagement is a mandate to deliver a result. The spine is always the same.
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Step 01
Diagnose
Identify the two or three opportunities to move the P&L, and define success as a hard, measurable metric.
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Step 02
Build
The AI-enabled system and the human change around it: operational redesign, training, governance, process.
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Step 03
Own
Our name on the outcome. You get a working, scaling system that moves the number.
Why now
The cost of the answer just changed.
AI resets what it costs to build a capability, and that cuts two ways. Ambitions that used to need a big team and a bigger budget are suddenly in reach for a lean operator: a new business line, a market you couldn't afford to enter, a process rebuilt from scratch. And the downside: standing still got more dangerous, because your competitors hold the same tools and the gap compounds.
88%
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How we move your numbers
AI on the side
Where almost everyone still is. AI as a personal assistant: drafting, summarizing, one chatbot per desk. Disconnected tools, no line on the P&L.
AI built into the operation
This is where the value is. Automated booking engines, reconciliation workflows, core commercial architecture. AI inside how the business actually runs.
[1] The Great Renovation, Notion (2026). Global study, N = 6,118.
Who we serve
Two kinds of client, the same goal.
PE firms creating value across the portfolio.
Deploy us into a portfolio company as an operating partner — an operator who builds and scales the fix, with AI native to how the operation works. For the value-creation plan that needs someone to execute it, not advise on it.
Talk about a portfolio companyProof
Where we've delivered results.
BlaBlaCar Brazil
Built and scaled from zero
- Passengers per year
- 0 → 11,000,000
- Bus carriers signed
- 0 → 52
Ran the Brazilian operation from day one: the team, the supply side of the marketplace, and the launch of the bus vertical.
BYJU’S Brazil
Built and scaled from zero
- Live classes delivered
- 0 → 500,000+
- Churn
- −50%
Stood up the live-class operation from nothing, then went after retention while volume was still climbing.
Logcomex
New business unit
- New-product ARR
- 0 → R$2M in 3 quarters
Built a B2B SaaS line from scratch: proposition, pricing, and the sales motion that carried it.
nstech
AI agents in the operation
- Deliveries scheduled automatically
- 0 → >90%
Built AI agents that schedule FMCG manufacturers' deliveries into retailers.
Owner, on every line Ithaka
Before the operating years
Three years of strategy and operations consulting under former Booz Allen Hamilton Principals. Designed a cross-sell and cost programme worth US$20M+ to a 200-person agribusiness sales force, siting and valuing US$350M of new plants for a wood-board manufacturer, and modelling the P&L of a CPG joint-venture breakup against what actually happened.
Team
Who you actually get.
Ricardo Leite Founder & Operator
Over ten years building in the digital world: two B2C country operations scaled from zero, three B2B business units launched. Today the focus is turning AI from an experimental pilot into a reliable P&L driver.
Before that, strategy consulting alongside former Booz Allen Hamilton Principals. Computer Engineering at ITA, then an MBA at Chicago Booth — which is why the business case and the system that delivers it don't have to come from two different people.
- Partners
- No firm overhead, no bench of juniors. When a mandate calls for depth we don't carry in-house, we bring in vetted specialists in engineering, GTM, or operations on a case-by-case basis. One named lead stays accountable throughout.
Start
Start with the result you want.
Tell us the KPI that you want to target. We'll come back with what a diagnostic would look like.