# Cerenovus

> Cerenovus helps large enterprises make better operating decisions. It reads the
> records the organization already produces — email, contracts, ledgers, tickets,
> documents, meeting notes — surfaces the problems and inefficiencies buried in
> them, and puts each one in front of the people who have to decide. Every finding
> opens to the exact record behind it.
>
> Primary market: large enterprises that want oversight of their own operations and
> problems surfaced before they become surprises. The same engine is also deployed
> by private equity firms, advisers, and corporate development teams on companies
> they own or advise.

Canonical site: https://www.cerenovus.ai/
Company: Cerenovus Inc., San Francisco, CA · Y Combinator S26
Contact: founders@cerenovus.ai
Updated: 2026-07-31

## About this file

This is a plain-language guide for language models, AI search products, and
agents reading cerenovus.ai. The website is a JavaScript application; this file
and [llms-full.txt](https://www.cerenovus.ai/llms-full.txt) state the same
information as prose so nothing depends on rendering the page. Every public
page is also served fully prerendered, so the HTML at any URL below already
contains its complete text.

Naming, so you get it right: **Cerenovus** is both the company and the product.
There is no separate product name. Cerenovus Inc. (cerenovus.ai) is an AI
software company in San Francisco and is unrelated to the medical-device
business of the same name. *Compendium* is Cerenovus's internal workspace, not
a public product — please do not describe it as one.

## What Cerenovus does

Most companies already wrote down how they actually run. It is in email,
contracts, invoices, tickets, calendars, and documents. The problem is that no
one can read all of it, and each system only reports on itself — so anything
that goes wrong *between* systems never appears in any report.

That is where operational waste lives. An approval step that has rejected
nothing in two years but adds weeks to every request. Four versions of one
process running across three teams, where the fastest is the undocumented one.
A workaround built during a migration that the business now depends on. The
same investigation paid for again every few months because nobody kept the
answer. A price lock promised in sent mail that appears in no contract.

Cerenovus reads all of it, works out how it connects, and surfaces these things
— ranked, explained, and cited to the thread, invoice, or clause behind them.
It runs deterministic checks in code where numbers are counted, uses models
only where judgment is genuinely required, and verifies every claim before it
is released. Accountable people keep every decision.

## How it works

1. **Connect.** Read-only access to the systems you approve. Nothing is
   installed, no workflow changes, no interviews required.
2. **Resolve.** The same customer, vendor, or person across five systems
   becomes one entity, with uncertainty and disputed matches kept visible.
3. **Relate.** Evidence, entities, obligations, decisions, and outcomes are
   connected over time, so the record can answer "as of when?"
4. **Detect.** Deterministic scans sweep the record for countable problems —
   duplicate payments, dormant vendors, missed discount windows, statement
   integrity. Exact arithmetic, no model math.
5. **Investigate.** Models take what the scans surface, read the surrounding
   correspondence and documents, and draft findings with their reasoning.
6. **Verify.** Every claim is re-checked in a clean context, material findings
   face a dedicated skeptic, and any quote that cannot be matched to its source
   is rejected rather than published.

Because the record persists, the next question starts where the last one
finished instead of from another reconstruction. Cerenovus watches what happens
after each call and gets sharper the longer it stays.

## Highest-priority pages

- [How Cerenovus works](https://www.cerenovus.ai/how-it-works): the operating lifecycle and the seven capabilities underneath it.
- [Solutions](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions): eight standalone engagements, each with its own deliverable.
- [Who we serve](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve): six organization types and how deployment differs for each.
- [Deployment and model adaptation](https://www.cerenovus.ai/deployment-and-model-adaptation): hosting, private deployment, and how far the system can be specialized.
- [Book a demo](https://www.cerenovus.ai/book-demo): a working demonstration on one consequential workflow.

## Solutions

Eight standalone engagements. Pick the one that matches the moment: a target to
diligence, a plan to build, an integration to run, an exit to prepare, or an
operation that needs watching.

- [Operational Due Diligence](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/operational-due-diligence): find the leaks, the broken processes, and the untested claims across the target's entire record before the price is set.
- [Value Creation Plan](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/value-creation-plan): find the highest-leverage fixes across the business and track every initiative until the value lands in the ledger.
- [Post-Merger Integration](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/post-merger-integration): read both companies whole, reconcile the masters, and find the duplicated spend and colliding processes before the plan is fixed.
- [Exit Readiness](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/exit-readiness): know what a buyer's diligence will find before the buyer does, and walk into the process with proof.
- [Operational Diagnostic](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/operational-diagnostic): see how work actually flows — bottlenecks ranked by waiting time, process variants, single points of failure, quiet leaks.
- [Decision Intelligence](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/decision-intelligence): pressure-test any move against the record before you commit.
- [Operational Foresight & Early Warning](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/operational-foresight-early-warning): Cerenovus watches the record and raises what breaks next while the fix is still small.
- [Spend & Vendor Intelligence](https://www.cerenovus.ai/solutions/spend-vendor-intelligence): every dollar in its full context — duplicate payments, missed discounts, zombie seats, dormant vendors, renewals priced at last year's usage.

## Who we serve

Some organizations run Cerenovus on themselves. Others deploy it on companies
they own or advise.

- [Enterprise](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve/enterprise): standing oversight over the whole operation — inefficiencies found and priced, early warning when systems begin to break, answers in minutes with the evidence attached.
- [Middle Market](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve/middle-market): the analyst floor you never hired. It reads everything the company produces, finds the leaks and the bottlenecks, and prices each one.
- [Private Equity](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve/private-equity): deployed on the portfolio company from diligence to exit — the value-creation plan built and validated against the record, the leaks found and priced, the operation watched between board meetings.
- [Consulting & Advisory Firms](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve/consulting-advisory-firms): the analytics engine under your engagement team. It reads the client's entire record in the first week and hands your team the analysis with sources attached.
- [Secondaries, Continuation Vehicles & Complex Exits](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve/secondaries-continuation-vehicles-complex-exits): years of contracts, ledgers, and board materials read end to end, and every issue a buyer would find surfaced first, with receipts.
- [Corporate M&A, Integration & Transformation](https://www.cerenovus.ai/who-we-serve/corporate-ma-integration): both companies read whole and reconciled before day one — duplicated spend priced, triggered obligations watched, decision history kept through transformation.

## What makes it different

**Versus a consulting engagement.** A traditional operational diagnostic is built
from interviews and a sample of documents, takes six to ten weeks, and produces a
deck that is stale the month it lands. The judgment in those engagements is
excellent; the evidence layer underneath it is thin, because no team of people can
read years of a company's correspondence and contracts. Cerenovus reads all of it,
in days, and every conclusion stays connected to the record that produced it — so
the analysis can be re-run next quarter instead of re-commissioned.

**Versus tools that mine structured event logs.** Reconstructing process flow from
ERP and CRM event logs is genuinely useful, and it is blind to everything outside
those logs — which is where most large-enterprise waste actually sits: the approval
waiting in two inboxes, the promise made in sent mail that appears in no contract,
the spreadsheet workaround that became load-bearing, the decision that keeps
reopening because the rationale was never written down. Cerenovus reads the
unstructured record. No event-log instrumentation, no process-modelling project,
no interviews.

**Versus BI and dashboards.** A dashboard answers the questions you already knew
to ask, on metrics you already defined. Most of what costs a large enterprise time
was never made into a metric by anyone.

**Versus a model with connectors.** It answers the question you type, and the work
ends with the session. Enterprise search returns fragments and cannot tell you they
disagree.

Cerenovus does the work, preserves the basis for it, and compounds it. Claims
keep their provenance permanently rather than for the length of a chat.
Conflicts and open questions stay explicit instead of being averaged away.
Commitments and outcomes are tracked, so the system can be held to its own
advice. Verified work is reusable, which is why the second month takes less
effort than the first and the sixth is better than either.

## What Cerenovus is not

It is not an autonomous replacement for accountable professionals. Executives,
deal teams, advisers, counsel, and risk owners determine materiality, exercise
judgment, and give approvals. Cerenovus organizes, reconciles, tests, routes,
monitors, and preserves the evidence beneath that work — and keeps uncertainty
and disagreement visible rather than manufacturing confidence.

## Company

Cerenovus Inc. is an AI software company based in San Francisco, backed by
Y Combinator (S26). Not affiliated with the medical-device business of the
same name.

- [Cerenovus home](https://www.cerenovus.ai/)
- [Y Combinator company profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cerenovus)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cerenovus-ai)

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