As interest rates rise and valuations tighten, the traditional private equity playbook is reaching its limit. In this article for Fintech Weekly, Chris Culbert, Principal at JMAN Group, explores the rise of small, adaptive data science teams that embed directly into portfolio operations to bring value at transactional depth to the surface. These are the teams that Chris dubs “AI hyenas”, and they play a key role in how the industry is evolving. The article deep-dives into how these teams move beyond simple analytics to fundamentally redistribute agency and authority within the firm.

In this article you will learn:

• Why precision inside the portfolio now matters more than capital structure alone.
• How embedded, adaptive “AI hyena” teams detect variance and pricing power that traditional reviews overlook.
• Why the future of private equity lies in allocating decision rights between human judgement and system-generated signals.

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