Cerenovus
AI-driven operational value creation
Designed for private equity operating partners and performance improvement professionals.
- $2B+
- In transaction value reviewed across client engagements.
- $50M+
- In value creation opportunities identified across client work.
- 10,000+
- Analysis threads running in parallel, each on its own question.
- 1 week
- Target time for a review that usually takes a team months.
Build the value creation plan from how the company actually runs.
Cerenovus reads a company's own records, finds the root causes behind its problems, and recommends the fixes that will raise EBITDA the most.
All capabilities
Operating partners, management, and consultants work from one fact base.
Operating partners get a ranked list of improvements for each portfolio company. Management teams see which processes drive the KPIs they own, and consultants back their advice with evidence from the client's own records.
All teams
Operating Partners & Portfolio Operations
See where a portfolio company can improve, ranked by impact, with clear next steps.
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Portfolio Company Leadership
Trace the numbers you manage to the work that produces them.
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Operational Consulting & Performance Improvement
Put quantified evidence from the client's own data behind your advice.
ExploreCerenovus understands how the company actually works and finds where it can run better.
Your team still chooses what to fix and leads the work. Cerenovus finds each opportunity in the company's data and ranks it by what it is worth.
Company-wide scope
Email, chat, documents, and system data are too large for a team to read in full. Cerenovus reads all of it and rebuilds how the work really happens.
Parallel investigation
Cerenovus runs related questions across finance, sales, and operations at the same time. Your team gets more analysis before the decision date.
Reviewable findings
Each finding links to the email, record, or file behind it. Your team can open the source and check the math.
How work gets done
Interviews and samples show only part of the daily work.
Find repeat work, extra sign-offs, and delays in every process.ExampleEvery new customer waited a day for a nightly credit list.
Automation
Teams guess which tasks are worth automating.
Find each manual step that software or AI could take over, sized in hours and cost.Example1,400 confirmations a day retyped by hand, about $216K to $303K a year in staff time.
Teams and incentives
Misaligned incentives and overlapping mandates surface only when they escalate.
See where incentives pull teams apart, where mandates overlap, where work is done twice, and where a process depends on one person.ExampleRetail and wholesale chased the same customers, and no one decided who owned them.
Decisions
Analyses and warnings stay in inboxes.
See which decisions go ahead without the evidence the company already has.ExampleRankings drove out the staff who check and settle trades, and no one counted the exits: about $240K to $250K a year.
Priorities
Teams rank ideas using rough estimates.
Know what each fix is worth before you start.ExampleChecking invoices against contract prices by hand: $250K to $800K a year in staff time and mispricing.
Tracking results
Progress is checked in slide decks that go out of date.
The team can rerun the same questions even as their business evolves.ExampleA finished onboarding automation sat in IT's queue for seven months.
Cerenovus cuts work that takes a review team months down to a fraction of the time.
A review team works through questions one after another. Cerenovus works through all of them at once.
Cerenovus reads email, chat, documents, and system exports, and matches the same people and vendors across them.
Uncover the inefficiencies hiding in your company's data
Interviews show the work people describe. Cerenovus reads how the work actually happened, so it finds the problems that sit between teams, where no single department is looking.
Work that should be automated
Recurring work done by hand: re-keying between systems, spreadsheet reconciliations, approvals chased by email.
ExampleAbout 1,400 trade confirmations a day are faxed, printed, and typed back in by hand, an estimated $216,000 to $303,000 a year in staff time.
Duplicated work
Two teams keep the same records, build the same report, or run rival systems for one job, often for years.
ExampleTwo risk groups keep the same book, against the risk chief's instruction.
Teams pulling against each other
Overlapping mandates, conflicting incentives, and different definitions of the same number.
ExampleRetail and wholesale chase the same customers, and nobody decides who owns them.
Bottlenecks and waiting
Approvals, queues, and handoffs where work waits, and the workarounds that grow up around them.
ExampleEvery new customer waits a day for a nightly credit list, so urgent deals run on rush emails.
Key-person risk
Critical work that lives with one person, with no backup and nothing written down.
ExampleWhen one analyst leaves, the regulatory reporting and settlements stop, because she was their only owner and nothing was documented.
Decisions made without the evidence
Warnings that never reach the room, and projects approved against the company's own analysis.
ExampleLeadership knows its rankings are driving out the staff who check and settle trades, and no one counts the exits: about $240,000 to $250,000 a year in avoidable replacement cost.
Fixes that stalled
Automations built but never switched on, and initiatives reported as done that the work does not reflect.
ExampleThe finished onboarding automation waits seven months in IT's queue while staff key in more than 3,000 customers by hand, over $80,000 in duplicated work.
Margin leakage
Money that slips away in daily work: terms not enforced, prices not checked, costs booked to the wrong place.
ExampleInvoices are checked against contract prices one deal at a time, by email, an estimated $250,000 to $800,000 a year in staff time and mispricing.
Examples come from analyses Cerenovus has run on real company records. Dollar figures are estimates in the dollars of the years those records cover.
Put hard questions to the whole company.
Cerenovus reads company systems, memos, and email together to answer each question.
From company data to a finding you can check
Your team sets the scope and approves access. Cerenovus does the reading, analysis, and checking across every approved source.
Connect
You approve read-only access to the systems in scope. No one has to clean up the files first.
Read and match
Cerenovus reads email, chat, documents, and system exports, and matches the same people and vendors across them.
Analyze
Cerenovus maps how work runs across workflows, systems, and processes, and finds the value creation opportunities in them.
Check
Every citation and calculation is checked against its source. A reviewer examines anything still open.
Deliver
Your team gets a value creation plan and supporting workbooks, with every opportunity ranked by value and linked to its source.
Follow up
If wanted, Cerenovus records each decision, so results can be compared months later.
Check the sources and calculations behind each finding.
Your team can open the document, the ledger line, or the email behind any finding.
Share
Evidence found in one investigation reaches every related one.
Challenge
When two sources disagree, reviewers see both side by side.
Calculate
Every number shows its inputs and its formula.
Rank
Findings are ordered by their value to the business.
Put company-wide analysis behind your next decision.
Cerenovus reads approved company data through read-only access and ranks what it finds by value.