Don’t Just Track Data. Act On It.
Our platform delivers tactical value creation playbooks — optimizable in real-time — for private capital investors, partnering with your teams and integrating into your existing processes and systems.
The power of AI combined with the rigor and wisdom of human experience
NorthShift’s AI-powered platform accelerates portco growth and value creation across the full investment lifecycle, supporting private capital firms’ three most important objectives:
Every single industry NAICS code pre-loaded
marketplace tech platforms recognized and evaluated
data-isolated third-party intelligence platforms accessed
client data connections to external servers
of PE and family office portfolio companies never return investor capital
to an exit on average, up from 5 years in 2021
annual EBITDA growth now needed to hit target returns, vs. 5% a decade ago
of AI-related data breaches trace back to misconfigured access controls
Dashboards only help you monitor what’s happening. NorthShift helps you do something about it. Securely.
Customize scenarios. Establish tactical growth plans. Continuously update and optimize.
Without ever exposing your data.
Combine your numbers and your narrative.
Deal Evaluation
Faster Viability Screening
- Portco pre-investment assessment & rating
- Streamlined evaluation process
- Consistent scoring system
- Narrow from thousands to a shortlist
Operational Due Diligence
Systematic Growth Execution
- Deep assessments of shortlisted portcos
- Identification of specific initiatives, people, and processes required to drive growth
Growth Activation
A Continuous Scenario Engine
- Value creation navigation system
- Multi-dimensional and cross-functional plans
- Build prescriptive, tactical execution playbooks to guide management teams
Portfolio Health
Comprehensive Status Tracking
- Real-time investment performance visibility
- Progress reporting across all dimensions
- Clearly surface growth initiative positions and value creation health of each individual portco
Accretive. Proven. Trusted.
“NorthShift and the A(i)scent platform deliver what most platforms only promise – real, repeatable revenue growth. Their embedded approach and clarity around GTM and RevOps make an immediate impact. Their executional rigor is rare. They’re not just advisors – they’re difference-makers.”
Katy Loria
CRO, GumGum
“I’ve witnessed the NorthShift team bring thoughtful RevOps leadership and operational ‘know-how’ to my portfolio company. Their deep understanding of the complex tech players helped us choose both the right strategy to deploy and technology to leverage, helping us realize 3X revenue growth within 24 months.”
Greg Bergamesco
Partner, Cerity Partners Ventures
“The systematic approach the team at NorthShift uses to drive sustainable monetization growth is best in class. With A(i)scent, they provide a unique combination of big picture strategy, immediately actionable tools, and client-centric ROI-based pricing models.”
Marion Hargett
CRO, MiQ
“NorthShift leadership identifies revenue opportunities and makes them happen. They made a meaningful impact at the portfolio company, including setting up multiple new partnerships for us that delivered significant growth.”
Rob Holmes
Former Head of Content, Roku
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Think of us like an insurance policy on your portco investments, only our focus is getting you ROI on your premiums. Deal and operating teams are spread thin, so the great work they’re already doing is going wide but not necessarily deep. We seamlessly integrate into your existing process, cadence, and tech stack - meaning we don’t replace your teams - we give them a force multiplier.
Data without action plans is just expensive hindsight. Other platforms are dashboards with retroactive tracking tools. NorthShift’s A(i)scent platform is an engine for opportunity diagnoses, tactical playbook creation, and responsive action monitoring.
User authentication and access control are powered by Clerk, an institutional-grade and SOC 2-certified identity provider supporting SSO and MFA and used by thousands of enterprises. Furthermore, you are logging in to your own isolated instance of the A(i)scent platform, in an entirely separate environment from any other NorthShift client. This is by design, and data is never commingled. The architecture is NOT multi-tenant; it is your own unique key to your own unique house, which has been built with the same advanced design as others, but is yours alone to use.
No. A(i)scent integrates into your existing processes and systems and is designed to reduce manual work — surfacing the insights and action plans that would otherwise take your teams weeks to assemble.
The processes that we’ve applied successfully across decades of combined experience have been codified into the platform. We partner with your teams and measure against your objectives so results are transparent and accountable.
We offer client-centric, ROI-based pricing models tailored to your portfolio and objectives. Get in touch and we’ll walk you through options that align cost with the value created.
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