The AI operating partner for PE-backed and mid-market businesses.
Anyway Ventures is the vehicle of Brannan Coady — founder, exited operator and investor — and a small senior bench. We diligence technology and AI before a deal, plan AI value creation across a portfolio, and go into companies to build it with their teams.
One partner across the deal cycle
The same person who diligences the target writes the AI value-creation plan, then helps the portfolio deliver it. No hand-off between advisers, no drift between thesis and execution.
Tech, product & AI due diligence
What the platform is, whether the product earns the plan — and a costed AI plan of attack in the IC pack.
2–4 WEEKS · FIXED PRICE →Fractional AI operating partner
Retained by the fund and deployed into the portfolio company where AI can move the numbers most.
RETAINED · 2–4 DAYS/MONTH →Embedded AI delivery
Inside one business, with its team. Internal tooling, automation and agents live in weeks.
4–8 WEEKS · FIXED PRICE →Board & NED
A small number of seats where technology, product and AI decide the outcome.
CAPACITY FOR 2 MORE SEATS →Engagements direct with operating teams of 50+ people
The same AI practice, bought directly by CEOs and owner-managers who want cost out and capability in, without a transformation programme.
THE AI PRACTICE FOR OPERATORS →A ranked, costed plan your team can act on — written in a week, on site.
Automation against the three worst hours-to-value processes, live inside two months.
A fractional Chief AI Officer on your leadership team, two to four days a month, with systems live inside 90 days.
FRACTIONAL CHIEF AI OFFICER →Hands-on AI training, in person: every attendee builds a working tool on their own job, and keeps the skills when we leave.
AI TRAINING FOR TEAMS →What it looks like in practice
Three agents live in six weeks at a £40m-revenue services business
Quoting, customer onboarding and month-end reconciliation automated with the ops and finance teams in the room. Built on their existing systems; handed over documented.
Tech, product & AI diligence on a vertical SaaS target
Platform and team review plus a costed AI value-creation plan for the IC. Two of the plan's items were delivered in the first quarter of ownership.
An owner-managed distributor made AI-native in a quarter
Internal pricing tool and document handling rebuilt with the team, then a twelve-week embed until the new workflows were the habit.
Writing
Short, practical pieces for deal teams and operators. No newsletter.
ALL WRITING →Brannan Coady, and a small world-class bench
I co-founded Netsells and ran it as chief executive for thirteen years of product work for Trainline, Coca-Cola, Uber and the BBC, through to a merger with hedgehog lab backed by BGF. I was Chief Product Officer, COO and then CEO of YourParkingSpace, and part of the deal team that sold Flowbird Group to EasyPark. I co-founded Railguard, sold to Trainline, and I invest in and sit on the boards of UK software and consumer businesses.
I lead every engagement personally. When the work needs more hands, I bring in senior engineers, designers and security specialists I've shipped with for years.
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