PropulsionAI

Financial diligence is exhaustive. Workforce diligence rarely is.

PropulsionAI is purpose-built for private equity and provides the workforce intelligence layer that PE diligence has been missing. Specific, named, dollarized, and connected to the investment thesis.

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The return math has changed

Annual EBITDA growth required
to hit target returns.

5%

Required a decade ago

12%

Required today

Source: Bain & Company, Global Private Equity Report 2026

Multiple expansion is gone.
Cheap debt is gone.

The only path to your return target runs through operational performance.

The workforce is what delivers it.

The data sits in the
data room.
Nobody connects it to the deal model.

Built to be a member of the deal team

Every deal has risk. You need to see it before close.

Bohdi

Bohdi is an artificial intelligence teammate with deep HR M&A expertise - purpose-built for the workforce diligence your deal team might not have time to do, and may not have been trained to do. The workforce data is in the data room. But it's voluminous, disconnected from the financial model, and easy to miss. Bohdi ingests it all, surfaces what moves enterprise value, and engages the deal team in a conversation about what the findings mean for the thesis. Human judgment, better informed.

The window just opened

The return math

Operational performance is the only path to target returns.

Multiple expansion is gone. Cheap debt is gone. With leverage and multiple expansion no longer reliable value levers, the workforce sits at the center of every deal model.

The technology

The ability to do this at deal speed didn't exist until now.

The ability to ingest, analyze, and synthesize the volume of unstructured workforce data that lives in a typical data room - at deal speed - didn't exist until now. The window between when this became necessary and when it became possible just opened.

Where we sit in the deal lifecycle

One investment. Multiple payoffs.

Pre-close

Pressure-Testing the Deal

The answers are obscured, details are hard to connect, and the impact is hard to see.

  • Compensation exposure that erodes first-year gains.
  • Key-person dependencies that deepen the risk of turnover.
  • Gaps between management's narrative and what the data actually shows.
  • Structural friction in the organization that will resist the operating plan.

Post-close

Accelerating Execution

The CEO inherits an organization built for the previous owner's strategy. Now they need to execute a different plan.

  • Turn the value creation plan into a complete organizational strategy.
  • Cascade the strategy into OKRs that connect every person to the plan.
  • Set performance expectations that lead to initiative, accountability, and execution.
  • Report progress against the value creation plan with precision, down to the metric.

Pressure-test the deal.
Then make the plan work.

Why it works

Three reasons the best deal teams now include Bohdi.

Faster. Less expensive. More complete.

The labor hours required to do what Bohdi does manually run into the tens of thousands of dollars per deal. Bohdi does it in hours, at a fraction of the cost.

HR M&A expertise.
On every deal. For every firm.

Many deal teams don't have someone who knows what workforce data to look for in an acquisition. Bohdi does. That expertise is embedded in every engagement - not dependent on who's in the room.

Miss this and your financial model is wrong.

Compensation exposure, key-person risk, org structures that resist the operating plan - these move EBITDA. The firms that find them before close protect their returns. The ones that don't often find out when execution stalls, timelines lengthen, and returns erode.

71%

of exit value now comes from operational performance.

Source: BCG, Global Private Equity Report 2026

The firms building workforce diligence into their process today will have an advantage
that compounds with every deal.