Business Intelligence for Private Equity

Dactic is an AI detective designed to surface the operational reality, cultural dynamics, and unwritten rules inside your portfolio companies, giving operating partners the clarity to act with confidence.

About Dactic

Strategic intelligence infrastructure for your portfolio

Every enterprise AI initiative runs into the same wall: models trained on public data can process complexity at scale, but they don’t know your business. They lack the accumulated judgement your best people have spent years building. The instincts, the pattern recognition, the unwritten rules that actually drive decisions.

  • Proprietary organizational intelligence at scale
  • Evidence backed decision making for PE
  • Reports that map to your value creation thesis
  • A process that surfaces what management presentations don’t
  • Speed that matches PE timelines
How Dactic Works

An AI detective that turns conversations into organizational intelligence.

Dactic helps operating partners identify and resolve the organizational data gaps that power decision making and AI output.

Start with your context

Set the foundation for meaningful insights

Describe your context, the problem you want to explore and the goals you want to reach. Dactic’s AI guides you through this step to help frame your challenge clearly before any interviews begin.

Dactic - Challenge Context
Design your interview

Create a questionnaire that fits your goals

Dactic's AI generates an initial questionnaire based on your challenge definition. You can refine the flow, add sections and tune the questions to guide participants toward deeper, more meaningful answers.

Dactic - Questionnaire Builder
Share and collect

Let participants engage in natural AI conversations

Publish your challenge and share your link. Participants complete a guided conversation with Dactic's AI and you can track progress in real time. The challenge closes automatically when your target is reached, or you can close it manually anytime.

Dactic - AI Interview
Unlock your insights

Turn every conversation into evidence based clarity

Once your challenge ends your report will be automatically generated. Dactic organizes all interviews into key takeaways, quotes, transcripts, recordings, quantitative charts and a downloadable PDF report with the best insights.

Dactic - Insights Report

When operating partners call us

01

You just closed an acquisition

The management story sounds great. But you need to know what’s really happening inside that organization before you make your first moves. Dactic delivers organizational clarity within 2 weeks of close.

02

Your 100-day plan isn’t working

Management says everything is on track. Your numbers say otherwise. Dactic surfaces what employees actually think — anonymously — so you can course-correct before the window closes.

03

You’re preparing for exit

Buyers will diligence your culture and operational risk. Know what they’ll find before they do. Dactic gives you a structured view of organizational health you can present with confidence.

04

You’re integrating two companies

Two cultures, two sets of unwritten rules, two ways things actually get done. Dactic maps both before you try to merge them — surfacing the friction points that derail integrations.

Proven in the field

“Dactic helped us surface real insights from across the organization, quickly and clearly. Instead of relying on assumptions, we had a structured view of our team’s perspective. It provides clear value and has a lot of potential to change how we listen to our organization.”

Kevin Bourbonnais — CEO, Allredi
DACTIC VS. TRADITIONAL CONSULTING
CONSULTING
DACTIC
Interviews

5–10 executives

50–200 employees
Timeline
6–12 weeks
Under 2 weeks
What you get
Filtered interpretation

Raw intelligence with evidence

Candor
Employees guard their words
Employees speak anonymously
Cost
$150K–$500K
A fraction of the cost

Ready to see what’s really happening inside your portfolio?

Stop letting critical organizational intelligence stay invisible. Start building the proprietary foundation your value creation plan needs to deliver real business results.

Frequently Asked Questions

We're here to help

Common questions about how Dactic helps PE firms capture organizational intelligence.

Consulting teams typically interview 5 to 10 executives over 6 to 12 weeks and deliver a filtered interpretation. Dactic interviews 50 to 200 employees anonymously in under 2 weeks and delivers the raw organizational intelligence with evidence. Employees tell an anonymous AI things they will never tell a consultant hired by their new PE owners. and includes up to 3 challenges and 15 total interviews (5 per challenge). You get full access to insights, reports and Ask AI during this period.

Pre acquisition employee access is typically restricted by the seller. Dactic is most powerful post close, when your team has full access and employees are navigating the transition. For firms with employee access during confirmatory diligence, Dactic can deploy pre close as well.. Changes take effect immediately and your usage limits adjust accordingly.

A structured assessment deck with an executive summary, risk scoring, dimension by dimension analysis, anonymized employee quotes, pattern identification, and prioritized action items. Every finding maps to financial and operational impact.. Your account remains active until the end of the billing period and no future charges are applied.

Yes. Employee identities are never attached to their responses. Reports aggregate findings by theme, department, and organizational level. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest with enterprise grade security. Your knowledge bases are never used to train our models.. Enterprise plans support unlimited users.

Absolutely. Your institutional knowledge is your competitive advantage. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest with enterprise grade security. Your knowledge bases are never shared and never used to train our models.. We do not use your data to train external models.