Is there leakage in your data and information base which, if closed, would make the business measurably better?
The Accelr8 agentic squad reconciles the commitments and targets a business has made with what actually happens: contracts against invoices, plans against results, entitlements against use.
Relentless agents work the long tail of cost, contracts, assets and compliance that no team can sustain, freeing people for the work that compounds, competitiveness, growth, value creation. Every finding is quantified, traced to its source, and released under human oversight you control. Read-only, audit-grade. Built on the systems, processes and structures you already run.
The contractual cash-in and cash-out obligations are the entry point. The same evidence base then answers the harder question: what does our digital supply chain look like, and where do dependencies create risk for operations and cost?
Every finding carries a dependency check before action: which processes, customers and systems rely on this vendor, this contract, this asset. Risk management improves from the supervisory board to operational procedures, from the same read-only deployment. See it inside a finding →
Uncashed entitlements sit beside unmanaged obligations. Compliance and legal exposure surfaces on the same evidence trail as the cost findings, logged immutably for governance, audit and diligence. See the audit export →
Small, no-bandwidth topics were never worth a project. Agent technology makes them soluble at last, and in aggregate they carry a material P&L and risk impact. The disruption is that you can now work on what you would never have touched. Put numbers on it →
Revision checks that the book of rules is followed; Accelr8 gives that work continuous, evidence-grade instrumentation. And the first question every auditor asks, how do you gain access to the data, has one answer everywhere: through existing user permissions, read-only, with no administrator consent on day one. See the working plan →
Value lives in six places. Autonomy acts through six levers. Point the levers at the places, continuously, and the enterprise begins to optimise itself, with every action tied to a P&L line and a full audit trail.
The six Value Pools, the structural domains where EBITDA is made or lost.
The six Execution Levers, the operational mechanisms that improve Value Pool performance.
01Where it deploys first: contracts, vendors, assets and licences, the four domains of Cost Efficiency. See the detail →
Deals, separations, turnarounds and exits all compress time. Accelr8 works inside the compressed calendar: evidence by Day 15, a certified register by Day 40.
Map software, hardware, vendors and contracts before Day 1. Flag change-of-control terms, duplicate spend and stranded assets. Track each synergy to an invoice. “70-90% of transactions fall short of the synergies the deal promises” (Knowledge at Wharton, 2025) whilst “83% of acquirers cite integration problems as primary cause of failure” (Bain & Company, 2024).
Surface dependencies, understand dis-synergies, identify top vendors, design target state. Reduce risk and time-to-intervention. “Barely half of sellers meet their expectations on proceeds and timing” (Deloitte Global Divestiture Survey, 2026).
Reconcile contracts against invoices, licences against use, prices against list. Fix leakage weekly, not annually. “Up to 40% of contract value can leak through poor contract management” (KPMG, 2023) whilst “companies realise less than half of the price increases they plan” (Simon-Kucher Global Pricing Study, 2025).
Order the work by weeks-to-cash. Stop auto-renewals, claim rebates, release trapped receivables, evidence the 13-week forecast. “€1.56 trillion of excess working capital sits trapped on listed company balance sheets” (PwC Working Capital Study, 2024).
Certify every recovered amount, keep the evidence diligence-ready, defend the multiple. Shorten the path to exit. “40% of portfolio companies are now held beyond five years” whilst “distributions have stayed below 15% of asset value for four consecutive years” (Bain Global Private Equity Report, 2025).
Five phases: setup before Day 1, a forty working day diagnostic sprint, and decision gates at Day 15 and Day 40 with structured exit points. Read-only throughout. This is the actual working plan, with weekly sponsor syncs on days 5, 10, 20, 25 and 35.
| Day | What it delivers |
|---|---|
| Day 15 · Gate 1 | Minimum £250K in quantified, evidence-backed findings. Initial leakage register with source documentation. |
| Day 20 | Contract coverage map: percentage of spend under contract vs uncontracted, by vendor and category. |
| Day 25 | Auto-renewal calendar with notice deadlines for all contracts above £50K annual value. |
| Day 40 · Gate 2 | Complete value recovery roadmap with prioritised actions, confidence ranges, and a 90-day execution plan. |
Thresholds shown are calibrated for a company with roughly £30M of third-party spend and scale proportionally. Open the working plan mockup →
Founder and CEO, Agent & Capital
Ilona Simpson advises boards, private equity sponsors and executive teams on AI governance, value creation and due diligence. She is an operator from industry: more than twenty years in executive roles across automotive, manufacturing, supply chain, utilities and consumer brands, at Porsche, DHL, Aston Martin, Adidas, Innogy/E.ON and ZF Foxconn, with P&L responsibility in enterprises from £500 million to over €100 billion in revenue.
Her record is measured in outcomes: a 4x EBIT increase at DHL Specialist Services, culminating in the trade sale to Panasonic; more than 25% off global IT spend at Aston Martin ahead of the 2016 IPO; a 10% cost reduction across Innogy’s €500m technology function; a standalone global technology function stood up at ZF Foxconn at 30% below industry benchmarks, with S/4HANA delivered in under 20 months; and Porsche’s R&D cycle accelerated from 60 to 48 months, adopted as the benchmark across the VW Group.
Not an AI tool looking for a use case, but an operating layer designed by someone who has carried the governance, the data and the P&L the autonomous enterprise now runs.
She serves as Industrial Advisor to Deutsche Beteiligungs AG and CXO Advisor to cybersecurity leader Netskope, and holds board and AI credentials from Harvard Business School, IESE, MIT Sloan, Columbia and Oxford Saïd, with CISA and AAIR certifications in audit and AI risk.
A short working session, then a 40-day pilot that proves itself by Day 15. Read-only, low footprint, nothing leaves your perimeter.