An AI build studio for PE-backed operators
Integrated is a small AI build studio. We embed in PE-backed mid-market businesses for ~90 days, diagnose where AI captures real leverage, build the systems custom to your workflow, and leave your team owning what we built. We also build our own products where the right tooling does not yet exist.
Built for $15-50M PE-backed non-tech operators
Most recent enterprise build
Five Arrows (Rothschild & Co) · Everway · $1B+ post-merger value creation
Built by operators
Operating partners, CEOs, CPTOs of PE-backed businesses ($25-500M revenue)
Production deployments
Three production AI systems live across PE-backed workforce and education operators
The wall every operator hits
Mid-market operators are AI-aware. You have read the threads, taken the pitches, bought subscriptions, even tried tools. But the workflows that matter are still being run by your senior people, and the systems that should have changed have not. Spending on AI is not the same as building with AI.
01 / The seats problem
The whole company has ChatGPT or Claude. Some people use them all day, some never. The actual impact on work output, opex, or team capacity is invisible at the P&L level. Seats are not systems.
02 / The tool problem
Copilots, Clays, Cursors. Useful for the person using them, invisible at the system level. Tools without integration into your actual workflows do not move opex or pipeline.
03 / The headcount tax
Every growth plan ends with "we need to hire." $80-150K fully loaded, six month ramp, attrition. Your best people are the production function and they are at capacity. You cannot clone them. Software has not solved that. Build studios can.
How we operate
We embed in your business and map the workflows that actually move opex, team capacity, and pipeline. We do not propose AI everywhere. We find where it is the right answer and where it is not.
Tim leads architecture. We build the system to fit your existing tools and your team's actual workflow. No rip-and-replace. No new platforms to learn. Production-grade by week six.
The system is not ours. It is yours. We train the people inside your business who will run it after we leave. If your team cannot operate it confidently, the engagement is not done.
By day 90, the system is live, your team is running it, and the opex, capacity, or pipeline impact is measurable. We are not your AI vendor. We are not a recurring fee. We build, train, and exit.
Working systems. Custom to your workflow. Run by your team.
What we build
We do client embeds, and we ship our own products where the right tooling does not yet exist. Each side sharpens the other. Client work tells us where the real gaps are. Product work proves we can build, not just advise.
The studio also ships its own products. Every embed teaches us something custom configuration cannot solve at scale. Where the same gap shows up across multiple engagements and the off-the-shelf options have not closed it, we treat it as a product opportunity. We bring the same operator discipline to product as we do to client work. Selective by design. One product at a time.
How we choose what to build
Shipped, not pitched
Every number below comes from production systems running inside PE-backed operators and an enterprise product org. Not demos. Not pilots.
Cost per qualified meeting below mid-market benchmark. Time-to-first-touch cut from days to hours at a PE-backed workforce operator.
Embed AI assessment system 92%Time-to-feedback reduction at 98% accuracy against the human baseline. Human capacity redeployed upstream.
Embed Enterprise AI OS · Everway $1B+Post-merger value creation across an EdTech leader. 400%+ content efficiency, 30%+ cost reduction, $6M+ delivered under budget.
Questions you should ask us
A build studio is a small operator-led firm that ships custom systems inside the businesses it serves, and ships its own products where the right tooling does not yet exist. We embed in your business for ~90 days, build the AI systems that move opex, capacity, or pipeline, train your team to run them, and leave. We also build our own products (Continuity is the first) where we keep seeing gaps no off-the-shelf tool fills. The deliverable is a working system inside your business, run by your team. Not slides. Not a vendor relationship.
Two operators in your business for ~90 days. Week 1-2 we diagnose the highest-leverage workflows. Week 3-6 we build. Week 7-10 we integrate, test, and tune. Week 11-12 we train your team and hand off. Engagements are retainer based, scoped per business after a 20-minute fit conversation.
We work best with $15-50M revenue PE-backed non-tech operators who are AI-aware but stuck on implementation. We are not for tech companies with in-house AI teams (you do not need us) or for sub-$5M businesses (the workflows are not yet repeatable enough). Both PE-backed and founder-led work. We will tell you honestly if you are too early.
No. We build into your existing tools. HubSpot, Salesforce, GitHub, Linear, Jira, whatever you are running. We add the intelligence and orchestration layer. We do not replace your systems and we do not introduce a new platform your team has to learn.
Every system is designed with review gates at the decisions that matter. The system drafts. A human approves anything that goes to a customer, ships code to prod, or affects money. We measure accuracy from day one and tune until it beats your current baseline.
Setup kicks off within a week of signing. The system is live within 30 days. Full handoff to your team by day 90.
Start here
20 minutes. We will tell you if there is a fit and what the system would look like inside your business.
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