Leverage · Claude Code for private equity

Half your deal team's week goes to work that doesn't need their judgment.

Screening companies, building the pitch one-pager, updating the model, monitoring the book. The same workflows, rebuilt from scratch every time. The Leverage Program turns each one into a reusable Claude Code skill your team owns, and gives every investment professional 10-15 hours a week back.

See how it works
~50%
of a deal team's week
is automatable work
10-15h
a week back
per professional
1,000+
hours operating
Claude Code
01 / Where the hours go

The most expensive people in the building spend their week formatting.

Investment professionals are ambitious, high-agency, and expensive. Exactly the people whose judgment compounds returns. Yet the recurring grind of sourcing and analysis eats the week, and the know-how stays trapped in individual heads instead of becoming a shared asset.

~50%
Of working time spent in Excel and PowerPoint producing material that should be automatable: the same models and one-pagers, again and again.
0
Reusable skills built today. Everyone works on their own. Nothing is captured, nothing compounds across the team.
02 / The shift
From using AI to running it

Most teams are stuck pasting prompts into a chatbot. The edge is running a team of agents.

Where most firms are

One-off chat

Open a blank chat, re-explain the task, paste in the document, get an 80%-good answer, fix the output by hand, then start from zero again tomorrow. Useful, but it never compounds.

Where Leverage takes you

Owned, reusable skills

Each recurring workflow becomes a documented Claude Code skill the team runs on demand. When the output isn't right, you fix the instructions, so it's better for everyone, next time and every time after.

03 / The workflows we move first

Real deal-team work, drawn from conversations with investment managers.

We start with the workflows that are documented, recurring, and data-heavy, the ones the models are unreasonably good at, where the judgment stays human and the grind doesn't.

W-01

Sector screening → the internal pitch one-pager

A manager forms a hypothesis on an industry, researches the companies in it, and builds a templated one-pager per company to pitch internally. The single most recurring, time-sunk task on the desk.

Today

Hours per company digging through annual reports and footnotes for private financials, then hand-assembling the same template in Excel and PowerPoint, and the data has to be right, or you lose the room you're pitching to.

With Leverage

Drop in the IM or prospect → the skill drafts the templated executive summary, pulling figures from reliable sources, and runs a built-in review loop that flags confidence before a human ever pitches it. The judgment stays yours; the assembly doesn't.

W-02

The financial model & analysis

The same investment type, modelled over and over, the middle step between sourcing and pitching that quietly consumes the most time.

Today

Rebuilding waterfalls and analysis from a blank sheet each deal, with structure and assumptions living in one person's workbook and nowhere else.

With Leverage

A skill that takes the source material and produces a first-pass model and analysis in your firm's structure, so the professional spends their time interrogating the numbers, not assembling them.

W-03

Portfolio monitoring & investor reporting

Standing on top of the book: counterparty and tenant risk, holdings you can query in plain language, and the recurring reports that go out to investors.

Today

Hunting through scattered spreadsheets to answer basic questions about the book: what you hold, at what terms, against what plan, and closing recurring investor reporting by hand.

With Leverage

A queryable, always-current view of the portfolio, automatic counterparty risk reads from public filings, and reporting that assembles itself from a single skill.

04 / The method

Build a skill once. The whole team runs it forever. It compounds.

→ 01

Map

Find the recurring, documented workflows hiding in your team's heads.

→ 02

Build

Capture each one as a reusable Claude Code skill the team owns.

→ 03

Iterate

When output falls short, fix the instructions, not the one-off result.

→ 04

Share

One improvement lifts every person who runs it. The asset grows.

The leverage you apply to capital, applied to your people.

05 / What it's worth

Time, returned and spent on judgment instead of formatting.

30
hours / month, reclaimed

A finance team's monthly investor reporting, once closed entirely by hand, collapsed into a single skill that does it all.

10
hours / week, recovered

A support function's most repetitive, time-consuming tasks, automated end-to-end with reusable skills.

10-15
hours / week, per professional

The target for a deal team: hours moved off assembly and back onto sourcing, analysis and judgment.

06 / The program
Format

Four weeks · five professionals

One two-hour session a week, over four weeks, with a cohort of five investment professionals. Across the program each participant builds one reusable skill for a task they all do, then shares it with the group at the end, so the whole team compounds. A firm runs as many cohorts as its headcount calls for.

Who it's for

Actively-investing deal teams

  • ~10-40 investment professionals doing similar, recurring work
  • Stretched teams, healthy deal flow
  • A champion who wants AI done properly
Your data

It stays yours

Everything runs inside your own Claude Team or Enterprise environment, with no training on your data. A short infosec one-pager is available for compliance on first contact.

07 / Who delivers it
“I spent two years learning to build, went fully AI-native, and now I install that same capability in teams, one reusable skill at a time.”

I'm a former founder of a tech company, so I know first-hand what it costs to build something real and to make a team move faster. I learned to code inside an engineering team, then pushed AI into every workflow I touched. With 1,000+ hours operating Claude Code across both engineering and non-engineering work, I'm one of the few people with both the technical depth to build real workflows and the ability to teach them to people who never will.

I've already run Claude Code programs across multiple cohorts. Now I'm focused on the teams this fits best: private equity deal teams.

Max Lagrell · Ellma · Stockholm
The conversation starts with my AI

Don't book a call. Talk to my clone.

This is my AI clone. It knows the program, it knows how I think and work, and it can tell you whether this is a fit for your team, then collect the details I need to follow up personally. Talking to it is the fastest way to see what I'd help you build.

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Max · AI clone
Trained on me, the program & how I work
Hi, I'm Max's AI clone. I help private equity deal teams turn recurring workflows into reusable Claude Code skills the team owns. If you're a partner, COO, transformation lead, or investment professional, ask what this could look like for screening, financial models, portfolio monitoring, or wherever your team loses the most judgment-hours.