How it works

Five steps in every portco. Reversible by design.

Sole-sourceable. Fixed-fee. Priced against measured savings. Aria diagnoses, Max deploys, Cortex reports. The agents stay after the engagement closes.

The operating motion

The same five steps in every portco. Sole-sourceable, fixed-fee, priced against measured savings. The agents stay after the engagement closes.

Find the bottleneck. Deploy the fix.

Connect

Week 1

Aria connects read-only to the portco's stack — Slack, email, Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Maximo, calendars — and starts observing how work actually flows.

Diagnose

Weeks 1 – 4

Aria ships a dollar-ranked findings register. Every finding has a named owner, an estimated savings figure, and an agent specification for the fix. First finding lands week one.

Deploy

Weeks 4 – 8

Max ships the agent against the top finding. Reversible, instrumented, kill-thresholded. First savings hit the dashboard before the engagement closes.

Report

Continuous

Cortex reports the dollars saved in real time on the Operating Partner dashboard. Not a quarterly slide. Every agent's ROI is named, live, and reversible.

Compound

Quarter on quarter

Cortex propagates the winning agents from one portco to the next. The same operating motion. New findings. Fund-wide pattern detection emerges as the book grows.

Reliability

The first question an Operating Partner asks is “what’s the blast radius?” The product is built so the answer is small, named, and reversible — every time.

Reversible by design.

Read-only by default

Aria connects to your stack with read-only credentials. Every write is granted explicitly per integration, per action. No hidden tool calls.

Named owners on every finding

Aria's findings register names the operator accountable for the fix. No anonymous recommendations. Nothing for the room to ignore.

Kill switch per agent

Every deployed agent ships with a kill threshold. If it stops earning above that line for two consecutive weeks, Cortex retires it and tells you why.

Full audit trail

Every action logged. Every output cited. Every change reversible at runtime. The kind of trail your CISO and your LP both ask for.

See the operating motion in your portco.

20-minute briefing. We come ready with the operating motion for your vertical.