Your fractional Chief AI Officer for the hold period.
Cold Iron Labs gives private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies a strategic AI advisor who has actually built production AI systems - pragmatic, realistic, and steeped in the PE operating model. Fractional CIO and transformation leadership behind it.
Three practices. One operating system.
We pair senior operators with internal AI tooling so a three-person engagement runs like a ten-person firm.
Fractional Chief AI Officer
AI strategy and governance for sponsors and operators. The highest-value AI moves, prioritized and made real.
Agentic workflows & analytics
Operational AI grounded in your data. Decisions captured and compounded across the hold period.
Fractional CIO & diligence
Embedded leadership through ERP migrations and platform consolidation, plus defensible pre-close diligence in 21 days.
Tools we built for ourselves. Now shipping to clients.
The diligence and delivery workbench every Cold Iron Labs engagement runs on.
Contextual Operations and Retrieval Engine. AI memory that learns across your organization.
The operating layer we leave behind. Dashboards, agents, and a living decision record.