Websley & Company

Applied AI for financial sponsors and their portfolio companies

Websley works with lower-middle-market funds and portfolio companies. We find the work consuming your team’s hours, prove one workflow on your data in two weeks, and move it into production only when it meets standards set by your best people.

01 / The problem

Companies are telling employees to use AIwithout defining where it should be applied, what good looks like, or who is accountable for results.

Priorities are left to individuals

Employees decide for themselves which work to automate, how to approach it, and which tools and models to use.

Quality depends on the user

The same work produces different results, with no shared criteria grounded in the organization’s best historical work.

Value is never underwritten

Time savings are assumed without a baseline, a plan to capture the capacity created, or a view of the full cost to operate the workflow.

No one owns performance

Quality, failures, usage, model selection, and cost receive little oversight after the initial experiment.

02 / Why Websley

Built for production

Websley identifies and underwrites the right opportunities, then builds them into dependable production workflows. After launch, we manage performance, optimize cost, and measure realized value.

Proof before you commit

Every engagement delivers a working prototype on your data before either party commits to a production build.

Standards set by your best people

Performance is measured against real historical work, guided by the people whose judgment you trust most.

Managed after launch

After a workflow ships, we manage its quality, reliability, usage, and cost, and we report the value actually realized.

03 / Where it applies

Representative workflows

We target workflows that run every week or every month, consume meaningful team hours, and have a clear standard for good output. We build workflows that fit this profile, at the fund or inside a portfolio company.

Deal evaluation

CIM screening, initial readouts, and data packs, built from the data room and delivered in your own templates.

Confidential Information Memorandum86 pages
Key findings
Revenue growth18% CAGR
EBITDA margin31%
Customer concentrationTop 3 = 41%
Risks surfaced6
Every figure linked to its source page

Portfolio monitoring & reporting

KPI collection, variance narratives, and LP materials, normalized across every portfolio company.

Monthly reporting · 8 companiesNormalized
RevenueEBITDANet debt
Portco A4.21.16.8
Portco B7.90.611.2
Portco C3.10.92.4
Variance notes drafted
Portco B EBITDA-38% vs budget
Driver identifiedOne-time rebate timing
Review before the board pack goes out

Operating‑company functions

Month-end close, forecast preparation, and reporting inside the portfolio company’s own systems.

Month-end close · Flux analysisGL + budget
Variances explained
Freight cost+14% vs budget
Driver identifiedCarrier mix shift
CommentaryDrafted per line
Controller reviews and approves

Discuss a workflow

04 / The engagement

Assess, then build, then run

Assess

A structured evaluation of candidate workflows, a tested prototype on your data, and an underwritten value case. There is no obligation to continue into Build.

2 weeks
Build

The validated workflow goes into production in your environment, with data connections, deterministic controls, human review, and testing against agreed acceptance criteria.

Scoped
Run

After deployment, we monitor quality, reliability, usage, and cost. As model capabilities and pricing evolve, we retest and improve the workflow and measure realized benefits against the original value case.

Ongoing

The engagement model in detail

05 / Where it runs

Built alongside the tools you already use

Workflows connect to your existing applications, files, and data sources without rip-and-replace implementations or disruption to how your teams work today.

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Control

Designed for companies that handle confidential information

Your data stays in your systems

Client data remains in your approved systems. Only workflow-relevant content goes to model providers you approve, and it is never approved for use in model training.

You set the boundaries

Each workflow operates within predefined data, system, and action boundaries. Higher-risk actions require explicit approval.

Limited visibility by design

Websley sees how workflows perform, not what your documents say. Operational logs shared with us exclude document contents.

Data handling in detail

06 / The firm

Colin Brosnan, founder of Websley & Company

The work we automate is work we have done

Websley was founded by Colin Brosnan, a former private equity associate who built and deployed AI agents for investment and portfolio workflows. Before that, he spent two years at McKinsey & Company and studied computer science at the University of Michigan. He has screened the CIMs, assembled the data packs, collected the portfolio KPIs, and he knows where the hours go.

About the firm

Start with two weeks

The Assess phase ends with a tested prototype on your data, an underwritten value case, and a scoped path to production.

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