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Rebuilding how a growth equity firm finds companies
The problem
In growth equity, the firm that looks at the most companies finds the deal everyone else missed. Volition’s problem was arithmetic: they could only evaluate as many companies as their analysts had hours to evaluate.
Good companies went unseen — not because anyone decided to pass on them, but because nobody had time to look. And the analysts they had were spending their days on the wrong work: reading company websites one by one, digging through the CRM to check whether someone had already reached out, rewriting the same intro email for the hundredth time.
They needed to fix this. They had no engineering team, and no desire to build one.
What we built
We became Volition’s engineering team, and rebuilt how the firm finds companies around Claude.
A first pass narrows the universe: a model trained on Volition’s own historical analyst decisions — not a generic model — scores thousands of companies for fit. What survives goes to Claude, which reads each company’s web presence and evaluates it the way an analyst would: what the company actually does, who it sells to, whether it fits the thesis. The judgment that used to mean an analyst opening a website and forming an opinion now happens automatically.
Claude also flags companies the firm has already spoken to, and drafts the outreach when it hasn’t — with a Volition professional reviewing and approving every message before it goes anywhere near a founder.
And because the whole estate sits behind an MCP server, analysts stopped building filters and started asking questions.
Claude evaluated more than 1,500 companies in two months — work that, at roughly fifteen minutes of manual reading each, would have consumed around 375 hours of analyst time. Volition now evaluates companies at a scale their team could never reach by hand — and they did it without hiring a single engineer. The analysts got their week back: the tedious parts of the job are handled, and research that used to mean five browser tabs and a spreadsheet is now a question typed in plain English. They took to it faster than anything we’ve built for them, and some went further than we did — building their own tools on top of the platform to review their pipeline and draft outreach, without asking us for anything.
Volition never hired an engineering organization. They hired a partner who treats their product like our own — because for four years, it has been.