AI for Private Equity: Compounding Returns on Your Firm and Your Portfolio

Thursday 25 June 2026 · 8:00 to 10:00am · One Heddon Street, Regent Street, London W1B 4BD
A breakfast briefing for principals and operators of small-to-mid PE firms. Hosted by AI Powered.

AI has been the buzzword for three years. But moving past all the noise, how do you actually know if you're using it to its full potential within your firm?
Most firms aren't and there's a gap forming between firms who treat AI as a chat box and firms who've understood what the latest wave can actually do.
We're still very early, and seriously nobody's behind… yet.
But there is a real first-mover advantage opening up, and that gap is a huge opportunity for the few who will take it.
The firms pulling ahead aren't the ones with the biggest AI budgets, they simply got their hands dirty early, figured out what works, and put it to work twice: inside their own house and across every company they own.
Over breakfast, we'll show you how through live demonstrations of the tools setting the pace, including the latest from Claude (Anthropic): agents that run multi-step work, skills and plugins that let AI plug straight into your systems, and routines that turn one analyst into the output of five.
This is about making your people AI-powered, not AI-replaced.
And turning that same capability into a value-creation lever across your portfolio.

What you'll learn
How frontier AI has changed in the last twelve months, and why "agents, skills and plugins" matter more than "chatbots".
Where AI is actually showing up across PE workflows, and how a lean team can punch above its weight.
How AI plays as a portfolio value-creation lever, and how to roll a repeatable approach across the whole book.
What good (and bad) looks like: the common ways firms waste six months on the wrong AI initiatives.
What you'll walk away with
A clear, current mental model of what today's AI can and can't do.
A concrete shortlist of the highest-leverage use cases for your firm and your portfolio.
Live demos. Agents, skills and plugins doing real work, so you're evaluating from evidence, not slideware.
A practical first-90-days view of where to start.

Is this for me / my firm?
This is built for small to mid sized PE firms that move quickly and realise that one capability can reshape how the whole place operates.
Investors and operators who are thinking seriously about how AI fits into the way they run their firm and their portfolio.
If you’re looking to meet and connect with others like you, speak up and hear what others are doing in your field, and find opportunities you might be missing then you should be here.

Why now
Every generation has a window where technology shifts from interesting to essential.
PCs in the eighties. Email in the nineties. Bloomberg, mobile, the cloud.
AI is in that window now, and we're still early enough that you can lead both inside your firm, and most importantly with your portfolio companies.