Private equity · Corporate leadership
Nine vectors.
One point of view.
(i)Sage is an advisory and intellectual-property firm for private equity sponsors and corporations — home 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, built on the method in (i)Sage’s patent.
- Applications
- 20
- Production agents
- 32
- Accuracy vs 73.3%
- 93.3%
Advisory
Operating judgment, applied where it counts.
For private equity sponsors and the boards and CEOs of operating companies — grounded in the experience of running 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, drawing on public-company and board experience.
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 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.)
Record
Companies led and boards served.
Companies led
- Marchex, Inc.
- Gemspring Capital
- The Intersect Group
- Astreya Partners
- 9Lenses, Inc.
- Everest Software, Inc.
- Infodata Systems, Inc.
Boards served
- Infodata Systems, Inc.
- Verus Technology Group
- SpotlightTMS (TicketManager)
- Astreya Partners
- The Intersect Group
- Diamond Mind
- DataRPM
- Callis Communications
In their words
From across the table.
“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.”
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