--- title: "Anyway Ventures — AI operating partner for PE-backed and mid-market businesses" description: "Tech and AI due diligence, AI operating partner roles and embedded AI delivery for PE-backed and mid-market businesses. Led by exited founder Brannan Coady." url: https://anywayventures.com/ updated: 2026-10-04 --- AI OPERATING PARTNER · DUE DILIGENCE · EMBEDDED DELIVERY · AI TRAINING · BOARD # 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. [For PE & investors](https://anywayventures.com/private-equity) [For CEOs & owner-managers](https://anywayventures.com/embedded-ai-delivery) 16yrs building, running and selling technology businesses 5 exits, as founder or C‑suite £1.3bn combined value of exits 12 current investments 5 active board roles I. FOR PE & INVESTORS ## 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. [01 · PRE-DEAL ### 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 →](https://anywayventures.com/ai-due-diligence) [02 · PORTFOLIO ### 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 →](https://anywayventures.com/ai-operating-partner) [03 · IN A PORTCO ### Embedded AI delivery Inside one business, with its team. Internal tooling, automation and agents live in weeks. 4–8 WEEKS · FIXED PRICE →](https://anywayventures.com/embedded-ai-delivery) [04 · GOVERNANCE ### Board & NED A small number of seats where technology, product and AI decide the outcome. CAPACITY FOR 2 MORE SEATS →](https://anywayventures.com/board-and-ned) II. FOR OPERATORS ## 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 →](https://anywayventures.com/embedded-ai-delivery) “We know AI matters and don't know where to start.” A ranked, costed plan your team can act on — written in a week, on site. “Our cost is headcount doing repetitive work.” Automation against the three worst hours-to-value processes, live inside two months. [“Nobody here owns AI, and the board keeps asking.” 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 →](https://anywayventures.com/fractional-chief-ai-officer) [“We want our people building with AI, not just asking it questions.” 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 →](https://anywayventures.com/ai-training) III. RECENT WORK ## What it looks like in practice [FULL TRACK RECORD →](https://anywayventures.com/track-record) EMBEDDED · PE-BACKED SERVICES ### 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. ~900 hours returned per month 6 wks from first call to production DILIGENCE · BUY-SIDE ### 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. ~1,400 hours/month returned in the first-100-day plan 9 days scoping to IC session CAPABILITY · OWNER-MANAGED ### 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. ~320 hours returned per month, unattended at 6 months 2→14 staff using AI in daily workflow IV. INSIGHTS ## Writing Short, practical pieces for deal teams and operators. No newsletter. [ALL WRITING →](https://anywayventures.com/insights) [TRAINING How to train staff on AI so the work actually changes Most AI training is a lecture or a prompt session, and on Monday the work looks the same. Here is the programme I would run instead: small cohorts, real tasks, a working build per person and a six-week check.](https://anywayventures.com/insights/how-to-train-staff-on-ai) [DELIVERY How much does an AI consultant cost in the UK? Day rates, strategy reports, fixed-price builds, retainers and training days, side by side. What each costs, what you actually get, and how to tell whether it will pay back.](https://anywayventures.com/insights/how-much-does-an-ai-consultant-cost-uk) [OPERATING PARTNER Fractional chief AI officer: do you need one, and what for? A guide for CEOs and owners of £10m to £200m businesses: when a fractional CAIO makes sense, how it compares with a fractional CTO, a consultant or a full-time hire, and how to judge one in 90 days.](https://anywayventures.com/insights/fractional-chief-ai-officer) V. WHO YOU'RE HIRING ## 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. [THE LONGER VERSION →](https://anywayventures.com/brannan-coady)