The month
What if margin slipped at one portfolio company while the month was still open, and leadership saw it the same day?
- Company
- Palletworks
- Gross margin, MTD
- 41.2%
- Against plan
- −180 bps
- Seen by leadership
- 14:22, same day
AI Digital Brain for parent companies
Every company you ownOne Digital Brain
Hydri watches over all of your portfolio and subsidiary companies, spots risk and variance against your KPIs and shows leadership what needs fixing in real time
For holding companies with portfolio companies, parent companies with subsidiaries and franchise groups that own their locations
Briony
Three items need a human today
- Palletworks · Margin −180 bps, month still open
- Keel · One customer, 38% of ARR
- Harbor · Quill · Same workflow, two vendors
Who it's for
If one leadership team answers for many companies, Hydri is built for you
- Holding companies and their portfolio companies
- Parent companies with subsidiaries
- Franchise groups with company-owned locations: dental groups, restaurant brands, service networks...
Each company keeps running its own systems. Hydri reads all of them and tells leadership what needs a human decision in real time
What one brain sees
Four questions no portfolio dashboard can answer
Across your portfolio, these are the questions that only exist in the seams between companies
The silent node
What if one customer, supplier, or person became a silent single point of failure inside a company, invisible to the parent company?
- Company
- Keel
- One customer
- 38% of ARR
- Named in any group report
- No
- Cover
- None
The twice-paid problem
What if two portfolio companies were solving the same problem twice, with two vendors?
- Across the portfolio
- Harbor · Quill
- Same workflow
- Two stacks
- Duplicate spend / year
- $1.1M
- Anyone asked
- No one
The brief
What if you had a plain-English brief in real time: highlighting what needs a human decision, across every company you own with suggested fixes?
- From
- Briony, in real time
- Needs a human
- 3 items
- Before Friday's leadership meeting
- 1
- The rest
- Can wait
Every figure shown is illustrative of a representative customer
Heartbeat
The first diagnostic is the portfolio heartbeat across all your business operational levers
Hydri establishes the pulse of every company you own, then spots risk and variance against your KPIs and shows leadership what needs fixing in real time across the portfolio. Each company reports into one brain and the threads are what they share: customers, vendors, people and cash
Hydri heartbeat
Illustrative group · ten portfolio companies reporting into one brain
Illustrative not a live feed
An illustration, not a recording of a live portfolio. The companies are representative
What buying looks like
Three steps in the order they actually happen
Tying back to your KPIs. Delivered in weeks with distinct value realized
01
Portfolio baseline
A read across the companies you already own: the systems and the operational reality they record. The portfolio baseline is yours to keep
Step 1Yours to keep
02
Hydri heartbeat
Continuous monitoring that is configured to your KPIs. Briony spots risk and variance against your KPIs and shows leadership what needs fixing in real time across the portfolio, in time to act, not in a quarterly pack, and not after the month has closed
Step 2Across the portfolio, without being asked
03
Tracking outcomes in real time
The Hydri console continuously monitors and highlights risk and variance from your KPIs in real time. Providing you the fixes and the reasoning and allows you to pull the trigger on the decision. Seeing trouble early matters, but seeing it was never the deliverable. Efficiency and cost savings are considered table stakes, the real incremental value comes from the digital brain continuously learning, growing in intelligence and its decisioning capability and capturing best practices
Step 3Incremental value from continuous intelligence & decisioning capability and resetting of the baseline
Who reads it in real time
The people who answer for the whole group
Holding companies, serial acquirers, parent companies with subsidiaries and franchise groups: anyone overseeing a portfolio of companies rather than a single business. The Hydri console provides the CEO, CFO, COO, CRO, Head of portfolio operations or CTO curated views aligned to their function
- Group CEO
- CFO
- COO
- CRO
- Head of Portfolio Operations
- Group CTO
Who you talk to
You talk to Briony
She is the interactive, intelligence and decisioning persona inside Hydri. She articulates and brings to life the Hydri console in real time. She tells you what needs a human decision, provides you the reasoning for the fix and leaves you to execute the decision across every company in the portfolio
Hydri is the platform. Briony is who you speak with
You stay in control of the decision. Hydri and Briony handle the continuous monitoring of risk and variance, analysis and draft recommendations across the portfolio of companies
Explore Hydri
The next step is for your team to have a live interaction with Hydri with a snapshot of your company data
The Hydri and Briony team will showcase the power of the platform.
