The AI Fix for Private Equity explained where AI can create value across the deal lifecycle. The AI Fix Field Guide is the follow-up: a practical guide to making that value real inside portfolio companies.

AI adoption does not fail because the models are weak. It fails because the business is not ready to absorb them. Processes are unclear. Ownership is diffuse. Data is fragmented. Governance lives in policy rather than workflow. Measurement tracks activity instead of outcomes.

This book is for CEOs, chairs, operating partners, transformation leaders, boards, and investors who need to move beyond AI theatre. It shows how to identify where AI can change an outcome, govern the work it performs, build the infrastructure it needs, fund the right initiatives, redesign human roles, and measure value the board can trust.

This is not another argument for becoming “AI-first.” It is a field guide for building the operating model that lets intelligence compound.