Your Capital & Execution Partner for Scaling AI Value Creation

We identify, de-risk, execute, and accelerate high-value AI-driven business transformations.

Our Investment Thesis

About Us

As a micro private equity firm, Hypothesis Partners bridges the gap between rapidly advancing agentic AI capabilities and the enterprise’s ability to achieve measurable business outcomes through adoption and application.

We acquire, operate, and optimize service businesses that enable enterprise data and AI transformation. Our founding team comprises seasoned entrepreneurs and domain experts in enterprise workflows, analytics, and agent-enabled automation. We target companies with $2–5M in EBITDA, robust customer recurrence, and scalable managed services business models.

We recognize a structural disconnect between the pace of AI infrastructure innovation and enterprise readiness for adoption. Our strategy is to transform mid-market service firms into platforms that empower customers to implement agentic automation with operational clarity and cost efficiency.

At Hypothesis Partners, we believe enterprise AI adoption will increasingly be defined by agent-based automation—intelligent systems that execute operational tasks with auditability, performance feedback, and business-user control. As inferencing becomes ubiquitous and cost pressures drive automation deeper into workflows, enterprises will require platforms that combine model flexibility with transparent data governance.

Most mid-sized firms, despite strong service DNA, are not equipped to transition from consultative engagements to delivering sustained, interoperable agentic services. They often lack the technical architecture, investment capital, and transformation leadership necessary to productize and scale. Large global system integrators, while deeply embedded with enterprise clients, are constrained by delivery models optimized for bespoke engagements and multi-year programs, not modular agentic transformation that business users can adopt incrementally. Internal incentives within GSIs frequently discourage platform design and reinforce legacy service frameworks that resist operational innovation.

Hypothesis Partners is purpose-built for this moment. We combine technical fluency in agentic systems, operational experience with enterprise data workflows, and the financial capacity to mobilize and augment service firms — enabling rapid transformation of existing customers and their data estates. By focusing on companies poised to evolve into agentic delivery platforms, Hypothesis Partners offers a pathway to scalable transformation that enterprises can deploy, trust, and measure — free from vendor lock-in and slow delivery cycles.

Agentic AI Specialists

We exclusively support, validate, select, and aggregate firms that contribute to agentic AI capabilities for enterprise clients.

Founder-Centric Approach

We empower founders to extend their strategy, offerings, and operations by integrating agentic AI, helping them differentiate and scale.

Private Equity Partnership

We provide strategic and operational support to private equity managers seeking to enhance portfolio value and capitalize on agentic AI opportunities.

Mission & Unique Value

Our Mission: To establish a scalable, market-standard approach for enterprise adoption of agentic AI, driving value creation through improved business process outcomes for our portfolio companies’ customers.

Key Stakeholder Benefits:

For Private Equity Investors

Leverage Hypothesis Partners’ strategy, target selection, and operational management capabilities to de-risk, accelerate, and maximize returns on invested capital.

For Founders & Portfolio Companies

Led by experienced founders, we collaborate closely to help founder-led businesses scale and benefit from applied agentic AI capabilities.

For Existing PE Portfolios

We refine AI strategies and support portfolio companies in charting actionable paths to agentic AI adoption for sustainable competitive advantage.

For Members & Limited Partners

We aim to deliver differentiated returns to accredited investors, driven by our unique expertise in agentic AI, data-centric business process optimization, and enterprise operations.

Partnership Philosophy

As AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, success hinges on the people driving and enabling structural change — those who define and scale the right companies, align AI readiness with business impact, and remove friction from enterprise adoption.

If you are committed to scaling change and value creation through agentic AI, we invite you to connect with us.

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Investment Thesis

Our portfolio strategy targets the middle layers of the enterprise AI value chain — where infrastructure meets operations. We seek firms with embedded customer relationships, transformation capabilities, alignment with data-centric enterprise processes, and engineering fundamentals in agentic AI systems design and operations.

These firms are positioned to become core components of standardized agentic AI managed service platforms, enabling scalable enterprise delivery and adoption to transform business processes and outcomes.

Customer Data Ecosystem Managed Service Providers

Data analytics firms with established client portfolios, deep understanding of customer business value drivers, and flexible delivery models.

Innovative Agentic AI Practitioners

Teams focused on applied agentic AI development and operations.

Business Transformation Facilitators

Consultancies building system-of-record capabilities and agentic automation.

Foundational Sytems Partners

Ecosystem partners operating within Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle, and hyperscaler environments.

Automated Analytics Providers

Firms specializing in data quality, engineering, and operational metrics.

ERP Integration Specialists

Companies with expertise in financial and operational domain integration.

Investment Criteria

Revenue

$5-25M

EBITDA

$2-5M

Customer Recurrence

Preference for firms with stable revenue and repeat business at or above 70%.

Customer Profile

Mid-sized enterprises with established data estates and balanced revenue concentration.

Sector & Use Case Focus

Verticals receptive to managed agentic AI transformation.

Capabilities

Advanced Automated Analytics

Business Intelligence.

Data-Driven Business Outcomes.

Change Management.

Applied Agentic AI Development & Operations.

Strong Partnerships with Major Data Ecosystem Incumbents.

Managing Partner

Mick Bass

Mick Bass

Managing Partner

Mick leads Hypothesis Partners’ engagement with members, private equity partners, and portfolio companies.

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If you are a managing partner at a private equity firm, a founder focused on scaling through AI, or an accredited investor interested in our investment thesis, we welcome your inquiry.