Funds are told their portfolio companies are moving on AI. kn0w audits each company and issues a Statement on how AI actually runs inside it: independently, to one evidence standard, enabling a comparable read across the portfolio.
Funds are pressing their portfolio companies to move on AI. Most have no consistent, comparable basis for saying which companies actually are.
The question keeps arriving at board level: which companies are adopting AI in the business itself, which are automating real work, and whether the money being spent is producing a return. On AI adoption, the fund often holds only what its companies say about themselves.
kn0w audits each company on how AI is actually being used inside it: the rate at which work is automated, which tools are deployed and hold in production, how capable the people using them are, and whether AI investment is tracked to outcomes or merely spent.
Not the company's AI policy. Its AI practice.
Each company is audited independently, on one methodology, to one evidence standard, and benchmarked against its peer set and, where applicable, the wider portfolio.
The result is issued: dated, identifier-verified, current to its last reissue.
Where applied across a portfolio, this establishes a consistent, comparable view of actual AI use at company level: which companies are adopting, which are ahead of their peers, which are behind, and where spend is not tracked to outcomes. Statement access is settled under the fund's Partner Terms.
Not self-reported by the companies. Issued about them. The audit runs annually on the same methodology, with quarterly check-ins between reissues, so the position is also a trajectory: which companies are advancing year on year, which are holding, and which are falling behind their peers. A position is current or it is not.
Limited partners ask what the portfolio is doing on AI. The answer becomes evidenced rather than asserted.
At exit, acquirers increasingly diligence AI adoption and its governance. A Statement in the data room is dated, evidence-based, and independently issued. A policy document is not.
kn0w audits qualifying companies individually and across a fund's portfolio: regulated FinTech and HealthTech, 50 to 500 staff, Australia and the United Kingdom. Portfolio rollout, Statement access, and commercial structure are settled per fund under Partner Terms.
The methodology is fixed and independent. No party, measured or commissioning, has any influence over it. Issued, not advised.
The first AI audit built to be submitted. One methodology, one evidence standard, independent of every party it measures, including the party that pays.
The sample Statement includes the measurement framework and evidence standard applied at issuance.
When a Statement issues, the company's board receives a six-page export drawn from it. Funds do not receive it; the company does.
Instrument scope: regulated FinTech and HealthTech, 50–500 staff, Australia and the United Kingdom.