Senior-led advisory · systems build · managed operations

Solve the operating problem, not just the AI problem.

CG&AI helps founders, investors, and operating teams resolve high-stakes work that spans finance, transactions, technology, data, and execution. We advise the decision, build the system, and can run the workflow under clear human controls.

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Senior judgment + operating systems
Finance & Transactions Software & Data Investment Systems Publishing & Localization Procurement & Supply Chain Managed Operations Finance & Transactions Software & Data Investment Systems Publishing & Localization Procurement & Supply Chain Managed Operations

When one problem crosses several functions, one owner still has to make it move.

CG&AI works with founders, investors, executives, and operating leaders when finance, transactions, technology, data, and execution can no longer be handled as separate workstreams.

Our principals stay close to the decision. Specialist teams and tools accelerate research, modeling, software, data, publishing, and operations, while sources, assumptions, approvals, and unresolved risks remain visible.

The result is a defensible decision, a production system, or a managed workflow with named ownership—not another presentation about what AI might do.

We are most useful when
01

A high-stakes decision depends on fragmented evidence.

02

A critical workflow still relies on manual coordination.

03

A product or data system must move beyond prototype.

04

Senior judgment is available, but execution capacity is not.

Advise. Build. Operate.

One operating model for the decision, the production system, and the work that must keep moving.

01 / ADVISE

Make the consequential decision.

Structure fragmented evidence into a clear recommendation, explicit risks, required approvals, and an executable next move.

  • Finance, tax & corporate operations
  • Transactions & private markets
  • Procurement, supply chain & technology
  • Capital, risk & operating strategy
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02 / BUILD

Turn the decision into a system.

Connect workflow design, data, software, controls, testing, release, and ownership in one production path.

  • Quantitative research & investment systems
  • Software, apps & digital products
  • Data products, APIs & agent interfaces
  • Publishing, localization & media
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03 / OPERATE

Keep the system accountable.

Stabilize and run critical workflows with named ownership, visible approvals and exceptions, and a controlled transfer path.

  • AI-assisted back-office operations
  • Workflow orchestration & governance
  • QA, release & live operations
  • Reporting, controls & continuous improvement
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Operating Problem Diagnostic

Bring one stuck decision, workflow, or product. CG&AI frames the outcome, organizes the available evidence, identifies constraints and control gaps, and recommends the smallest responsible next move: advise, build, operate, transfer, or stop.

You receive a concise diagnostic record, an accountable next-step plan, and a clear decision on whether a larger engagement is justified.

The first step is a fit and scope review. Timing, fee, required materials, and decision gates are confirmed in writing before any engagement begins.
01
Frame one problem

Define the desired outcome, accountable owner, evidence standard, constraints, authority boundaries, and decision point.

02
Organize what is known

Review the available sources, identify contradictions and missing facts, and separate evidence from assumption.

03
Expose control gaps

Make owners, approvals, exception paths, operational dependencies, and unresolved risks visible.

04
Choose the smallest next move

Recommend a decision mandate, production build, managed workflow, controlled handoff, or no larger engagement.

Proof is a working system.

Representative work from active operating environments, shown without client or venture identities. Each example connects evidence, specialist execution, human review, and a usable output.

Private markets

From data room to a defensible investment decision

Fragmented company, market, contract, and financial evidence became one controlled operating record.

01Source evidence
02Diligence record
03Decision + workplan
OUTPUT Reviewable evidence and one decision path
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Investment systems

A connected research and portfolio stack

Research, portfolio logic, risk controls, proposed actions, and records were designed as one operating system.

01Research inputs
02Risk + portfolio logic
03Controlled execution
OUTPUT Traceable research through controlled execution
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Back office

Human-approved controls for back-office work

Routine coordination was reorganized around visible queues, accountable owners, approval gates, exception paths, and escalation.

01Operational queues
02Approval + escalation
03Managed cadence
OUTPUT Managed queues, approvals, and exceptions
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Start with the work that is stuck.

We do not begin with a predetermined technology. We begin with the decision, workflow, or operating outcome that matters.

01

Frame

Clarify the outcome, evidence, constraints, risk, and accountable owner.

02

Build

Combine senior judgment, specialist workflows, and the smallest useful system.

03

Prove

Test the work against real sources, edge cases, approvals, and operating conditions.

04

Operate

Run it with clear controls, or transfer it with documentation and ownership intact.

See how the work moves.

Explore the public CG&AI Office: a visual view of how senior operators and specialist roles coordinate across the firm.

Enter Our Office
01Senior ownership

An accountable principal remains close to the decision.

02Source discipline

Work products stay connected to the evidence behind them.

03Human control

Consequential actions require explicit review and approval.

Operators first.

Senior judgment stays inside the work—from framing through implementation.

Principal 01

Antonio Calisto Pato

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Finance and tax executive with 25+ years across international law, Big Four advisory, multinational leadership, and the public-company CFO seat. His work spans cross-border tax, capital strategy, transactions, governance, and AI-native operating systems.

MBA LL.M. International Tax Public-Company CFO Published Author & Former Lecturer
Principal 02

Jennifer Griggs

Co-Founder & Partner

Procurement and supply-chain strategist with 15 years across technology sourcing, logistics, vendor management, contract negotiation, and software-asset management. Her work connects commercial decisions to the operating systems that sustain them.

MBA, Wake Forest University Technology Sourcing Contract Negotiation Supply Chain & Logistics

Bring us one piece of work that is stuck.

Tell us the decision, workflow, or product, who owns it, and what is preventing movement. We will review the fit and recommend the smallest responsible first engagement.

The next step may be an Operating Problem Diagnostic, a decision mandate, a production build, a managed workflow, a controlled handoff—or no larger engagement.

Location
Charlotte, North Carolina
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