Private equity · Corporate leadership
Nine vectors.
One point of view.
(i)Sage is Edwin Miller’s advisory and intellectual-property company — author of the 9 Vectors framework and owner of the patented method behind TheGreyMatter.ai.
Track record
Agentic AI · SLM formation
Frontier models reason. They do not remember your business.
(i)Sage helps private equity sponsors and corporations give their AI a working memory of the business: a causal model of how the company runs and a small language model formed from its own data. The platform is TheGreyMatter.ai — architected and built by Edwin Miller, on the method in (i)Sage’s patent.
- Applications
- 20
- Production agents
- 32
- Accuracy vs 66.5%
- 96.5%
Advisory
Operating judgment, applied where it counts.
For private equity sponsors and the boards and CEOs of operating companies — from an operator who has run six companies through turnaround, repositioning and sale.
Private equity
Operating advisory from diligence through the value-creation plan to exit readiness — one model of the business across the whole hold.
AI strategy and SLM formation
Turning the AI seats a company already pays for into work — on a model of the business and an SLM formed from its own data.
Transformation
Re-setting strategy, operations and execution when the business is not running the way it could.
CEO advisory
A sounding board for the hard calls: turnarounds, integrations, capital allocation and the first hundred days.
Board advisory
Strategy, governance and CEO-succession conversations, framed by a public-company CEO and eight-time director.
The 9 Vectors
A complete model of a business.
Nine vectors, 37 Sub-Vectors and 571 themes — first published in two books in 2011 and 2012, and now the reference framework inside TheGreyMatter.ai. Read down the columns: assets, processes, structures. At the center sits Operations, where every vector meets.
Intellectual property
The patented method behind TheGreyMatter.ai.
U.S. Patent 9,489,419 B2 — Edwin Miller, sole inventor — is owned by (I)Sage Management LLC and licensed to TheGreyMatter.ai under a perpetual license.
- Patent
- US 9,489,419 B2
- Filed · Issued
- 2013 · 2016
- Owner
- (I)Sage Management LLC
- Licensee
- TheGreyMatter.ai (9Vectors, Inc.)
Board service
Eight boards. One public, seven private.
Directorships across enterprise software, data and analytics, national security technology and communications — and advisory roles to the CEO and executive chairman of two Nasdaq companies.
Infodata Systems, Inc.
Director, President & CEO · 2002 – 2005
All-cash sale to McDonald Bradley, Inc. (2005)
Verus Technology Group
Director · 2014 – 2023
Sold to BlueHalo (2023)
SpotlightTMS (TicketManager)
Director · 2011 – 2020
Acquired by Valeas Capital Partners (2025)
Astreya Partners
Director, President & CEO · 2014 – 2019
Acquired by Cognizant (2026, $634M)
The Intersect Group
Director, President & CEO · 2020
Revenue and margin improved; new analytics practice
Diamond Mind
Director · 2012 – 2014
Serent Capital growth investment (2014); sold to Education Brands (2016)
In their words
What the people across the table say.
“I know of no comparable CEO with the package of energy, tenacity and leadership Edwin exhibits on a continual basis.”
“Edwin Miller’s leadership approach combines vision, strategy and disciplined execution as well as anyone I’ve ever worked with. His ability to simplify and articulate complex issues and to rally a team to action is remarkable.”
“Edwin is the brightest and most competent CEO I have ever had the pleasure to work with. He is always thinking, strategizing, and executing: he never stops!”
- CEO tenures
- 6
- Board seats
- 8
- Exits as CEO
- 2
- AI agents built
- 32
Founder & Managing Director
Edwin Miller
Six-time chief executive of public, private-equity-backed and venture-funded technology companies — Infodata Systems, Everest Software, Astreya Partners, The Intersect Group, 9Lenses and Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX) — with exits to McDonald Bradley and Versata. Two years as an operating executive at Gemspring Capital. Founder & Chairman of TheGreyMatter.ai, which he architected and built hands-on: 20 applications and 32 agentic AI agents on a causal knowledge graph.
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