PE/VC fund · due diligence
DueDrill
40 to 60 analyst hours per deal to under 4; deal-evaluation capacity tripled without added headcount.
About PortLev
A fractional AI Operating Partner practice for PE-backed and mid-market companies.
Portfolio Leverage Company sells one seat. The seat owns the AI line of a portfolio company's value-creation plan, ships the working system into the real system of record, designs adoption on the workforce side, and reports to the board in basis points of EBITDA inside the hold period.
In one line
Advisors advise. Vendors build. PortLev owns adoption and ships the system, personally, measured in the CFO's number.
How it runs
Diagnose. Own. Ship. Measure. Repeat.
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Diagnose
Map workflows, adoption blockers and loaded labor cost. Rank by impact against ease. Write the don't-automate list.
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Own
Name one adoption owner inside the portco. Put the number in their incentives. Baseline it before anything ships.
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Ship
Build into the real system of record with real data. Train the three to five people who will run it. The portco owns the code.
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Measure
Publish the weekly adoption number. Report monthly to the board in basis points of EBITDA.
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Repeat
Package the playbook. The second function, and the second portco, cost less than the first.
Who holds the seat
Yuri Kruman, founder
Every engagement is led personally. The differentiator is the pairing: a practising Chief Human Resources Officer with a JD, who designs adoption, incentives and compliance, and a hands-on builder who ships the system himself. No analyst bench, no handoff.
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3x Chief Human Resources Officer
Fortune 500, VC-backed and global organisations.
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JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
BA, University of Pennsylvania.
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Contract AI model trainer for OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft
Via Sepal AI, in the HR and leadership domains.
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#6 Global HR Thought Leader, Thinkers360
2025 and 2026. AI curriculum designer for Coursera enterprise workforce programs.
How the bench works. Every engagement is led personally. Where a build needs a specialist (security review, data engineering), that person is named in the statement of work. There is no anonymous bench and no handoff to someone junior.
Personal site, books and executive coaching are a separate, individual-facing property: yurikruman.com. Profile: LinkedIn.
What has shipped
Systems in production, with the outcome the client measured.
Venture studio · HR operations
AI HR Pilot
Ticket resolution from 3 days to under 2 hours; ROI positive within 30 days; became a commercial product.
Portfolio-wide · HR compliance
i9Drill
Turns I-9 compliance into a standing audit-ready posture across every operating company in a portfolio.
All case studies · Build notes, with the stack and the prompts
How we work
Five commitments in every engagement
Ship the system, not the deck.
The engagement ends with software in the system of record and a named maintainer.
Name the owner.
One adoption owner inside the portco, with the number in their incentives.
Measure in the CFO's number.
Baseline in the portco's own loaded labor cost; report in basis points of EBITDA.
The portco owns the IP.
Prompts, data and integration layer stay with the company; the model stays swappable.
Playbook every rollout.
The second function and the second portfolio company cost less than the first.