5,400 m
Peak 01 · AI Discovery
Precision.
See the Opportunity
AI maps every spend category in 15 days — ranked by EBITDA impact and execution effort. No category missed, no opportunity mispriced.
Investment5 bps of spend analyzed
Trisul Intelligence · Issue No. 015
We climb the spend. You capture the EBITDA.
Precision. Mastery. Force.
Fractional Procurement Leadership for PE portfolio companies. $240M+ in verified savings. 5–10% EBITDA lift. 5x ROI guaranteed — or your money back.
§ 01 · Field record
01$240M+Verified savings · PE portfolios, 2017–2026
023–12%Cost savings on addressable spend
035–10%EBITDA uplift from procurement
0415 daysAI maps every category, end to end
§ 02 · The Trident Framework
Three distinct climbs. One summit.
Each peak is a separate discipline with its own gear, its own tempo, and its own price. We refuse to bundle them into a generic "transformation" deck — because the failure mode is always at the boundary between AI, expert, and execution.
What follows is the operating creed at each altitude.
6,200 m
Peak 02 · Expert Validation
Mastery.
Sharpen the Map
Category specialists with 25+ years of domain depth validate every AI finding. Mastery is knowing what the supplier will say before the first call.
Investment10 bps of spend analyzed
7,120 m · summit
Peak 03 · Savings Execution
Force.
Realize the Savings
Specialists run RFPs, negotiate contracts, verify savings in the P&L. Gain-share charged only on contracted savings — never on projected.
Investment10 bps + Gain Share
▲ The Summit · EBITDA Expansion
5x ROI Guaranteed, or your money back. No fine print.
EBITDA uplift
5–10%
Exit multiple
higher
First map
15 d
Gain-share basis
contracted only
§ 03 · Trisul Intelligence
Field notes from the climb.
Quiet quarterly dispatches on PE procurement: where savings hide, what supplier moves to expect, and how operating partners convert 1% of spend into 5–10% of EBITDA. Operator-to-operator. No fluff.
No. 014
April 2026
The supplier already knows what you will pay.
Why MRO contracts in industrial portcos quietly erode 4–7% of EBITDA each year — and the three telltales we look for in the first 48 hours.
No. 013
March 2026
Gain-share is a posture, not a price.
A field note on aligning incentives when an operating partner is buying time, not labor — and what changes the day savings hit the P&L.
No. 012
February 2026
Twelve categories, one climb.
A diary from a 90-day execution sprint at a $620M industrial distributor — what worked, what stalled, and where the 6.4% landed.
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