10/14/2026 | Daily AI News from GAI Insights

The first one that we have for today comes from Forbes and it's titled, Can Cognitive Capital Close Private Equities Growth Gap?

Okay, so this one comes from our own John Suekla and Aljan, I believe you are on this one, right?

Yes.

So unfortunately, John is not here today because I had prepared a roast for him.

But congratulations for John for publishing that article on Forbes.

Fantastic article and I would mark it as important and For certain segments, whether you're a PE or you're a PE owned company, I would look at it as essential, right? And congrats to John for creating the term of cognition capital, right? That's like a classic McKinsey $2 million type report.

that he created.

So what is this about? This is about how PE firms' economics is changing, right? For the last couple of years, like 10 years, as interest rates were dropping, PE firms used to just borrow money and get a lot of their growth from there.

Right.

But now with interest rates rising or at high levels, that is becoming very difficult for growth to achieve.

So luckily, lo and behold, here comes AI and AI can provide a lot of the growth opportunities for for PE firms, right? And they are portfolio companies.

We work with a lot of PE firms too.

And so what I'm seeing is that you can change some of the economics of a company either by cutting costs in certain ways where you can grow a lot without incurring corresponding costs as well as using AI to drive the revenue aspects, right? And that's what Dr.

John Suyakla calls the cognition capital part.

So as you look at your business and say, what is my business here and why do my customers, users, you can use ai in a lot of ways to drive like real revenues and real growth so that's what he goes into uh as always fantastic article by dr john swiokla and if it's p or if you're a private equity owned company i i would keep it as essential uh but overall i would market as important

uh thanks all then uh brenda where are you on this one

So I think that he's got a few things, and I am also disappointed that he's not here to defend his article, Alden.

I think it would have been quite fun to listen to this, but I really like the concept that he has in here of this decision inventory.

So I think on the ground, the idea of counting the decisions that are running on software now as your lead indicator of where AI can actually be beneficial and how that actually produces results I think that really changes the narrative.

And I think that the second way to sort of frame the business case is instead of thinking about, as he says, like the hours saved, what we're really trying to do is focus on margin and growth.

And that's true even outside of private equity.

So I feel like this is a really unique opportunity for us to, as AI leaders or advising AI leaders, how they can really change the way that they're thinking about the roadmaps that they're creating, the technologies that they're embedding.

And instead of it just kind of being this enterprise orchestration, how do I do what I do today, faster, better, cheaper? This decision inventory thing, in my head, is a bit of a game changer.

I do come from 12 years of executive roles in P.E. Portco, so I get that.

I'm also an LP in private equity funds, so I definitely have that bent.

The first one that we have for today comes from Forbes and it's titled, Can Cognitive Capital Close Private Equities Growth Gap?

Okay, so this one comes from our own John Suekla and Aljan, I believe you are on this one, right?

Yes.

So unfortunately, John is not here today because I had prepared a roast for him.

But congratulations for John for publishing that article on Forbes.

Fantastic article and I would mark it as important and For certain segments, whether you're a PE or you're a PE owned company, I would look at it as essential, right? And congrats to John for creating the term of cognition capital, right? That's like a classic McKinsey $2 million type report.

that he created.

So what is this about? This is about how PE firms' economics is changing, right? For the last couple of years, like 10 years, as interest rates were dropping, PE firms used to just borrow money and get a lot of their growth from there.

Right.

But now with interest rates rising or at high levels, that is becoming very difficult for growth to achieve.

So luckily, lo and behold, here comes AI and AI can provide a lot of the growth opportunities for for PE firms, right? And they are portfolio companies.

We work with a lot of PE firms too.

And so what I'm seeing is that you can change some of the economics of a company either by cutting costs in certain ways where you can grow a lot without incurring corresponding costs as well as using AI to drive the revenue aspects, right? And that's what Dr.

John Suyakla calls the cognition capital part.

So as you look at your business and say, what is my business here and why do my customers, users, you can use ai in a lot of ways to drive like real revenues and real growth so that's what he goes into uh as always fantastic article by dr john swiokla and if it's p or if you're a private equity owned company i i would keep it as essential uh but overall i would market as important

uh thanks all then uh brenda where are you on this one

So I think that he's got a few things, and I am also disappointed that he's not here to defend his article, Alden.

I think it would have been quite fun to listen to this, but I really like the concept that he has in here of this decision inventory.

So I think on the ground, the idea of counting the decisions that are running on software now as your lead indicator of where AI can actually be beneficial and how that actually produces results I think that really changes the narrative.

And I think that the second way to sort of frame the business case is instead of thinking about, as he says, like the hours saved, what we're really trying to do is focus on margin and growth.

And that's true even outside of private equity.

So I feel like this is a really unique opportunity for us to, as AI leaders or advising AI leaders, how they can really change the way that they're thinking about the roadmaps that they're creating, the technologies that they're embedding.

And instead of it just kind of being this enterprise orchestration, how do I do what I do today, faster, better, cheaper? This decision inventory thing, in my head, is a bit of a game changer.

I do come from 12 years of executive roles in P.E. Portco, so I get that.

I'm also an LP in private equity funds, so I definitely have that bent.