Linebreak’s AI platform
Future Advantage
Where to go next
Future Advantage by Linebreak combines AI-led research with deep commercial and enterprise technology expertise to identify specific business opportunities emerging from market and technological change.
Where we engage
The new lever of value creation
Companies have long created value by operating more efficiently and serving customers better. AI is opening up new business models and new ways to find them.
Operate better
Run a more efficient business.
Made repeatable by enterprise systems.
Serve better
Reach more customers and meet their needs.
Made repeatable by digital.
Next business
Identify new sources of value in business models that AI makes possible to expand where and how your business can compete.
Made possible by AI.
Operating and serving better remain essential to strengthen the foundations. New sources of value emerge as markets and technology change. The opportunity is to identify and act on them.
Where we engage
Linebreak works with the owners and leaders of mid-market businesses, and the private equity and venture investors who back them. We connect capabilities, commercial context and customer demand, and create value through acquisitions, growth in the business, and new ventures.
Find acquisition targets and partners for your business in markets we know.
Assess a company’s commercial and technology case, and the value it could create under your ownership.
Identify new growth opportunities within a business you already own or run, and how to pursue them.
Build a separate company when an opportunity needs room outside the core business.
Some of our partners from the past five years.
How Linebreak creates value
Linebreak is the value creation company behind the platform. It connects the research from Future Advantage with senior judgement and in-house delivery. We work with your leadership team to assess the opportunities, agree what to pursue, define the first test and put the selected route into action.
For private equity firms, the same approach can support revenue growth and value creation across portfolio companies.
Linebreak’s senior advisors and New Icon work with you throughout, from the first evidence to putting the selected route into action.
- 01 EvidenceFuture AdvantageLinebreak’s AI platform
Identifies opportunities, gathers and challenges the evidence, and keeps the opportunity set current as markets move. For each option, it proposes possible routes and a first test for you to assess with Linebreak’s senior advisors.
- 02 JudgementAdvisoryLinebreak’s senior advisors
Senior advisors who have run technology businesses weigh the options with your leadership and agree the route and first test. They hold board and operating partner roles and draw on a network of international specialists.
- 03 ActivationNew IconLinebreak’s software & innovation team
Builds and tests the first version with customers and, once you decide to go ahead, implements the selected route. Its 12 developers work alongside your own team, from the first prototype through to launch and into everyday use.
Your contacts
Linebreak leads the engagement and brings together research, advice and delivery, with you in each decision. Each stage has a dedicated lead, with all three capabilities working together throughout.
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Patrick Nicolet
Founder & CEO, Head of Advisory
Patrick has built, scaled and transformed international technology services businesses, including as a member of Capgemini’s Group Executive Board.
He leads Linebreak’s senior advisors and brings a commercial perspective to the growth and enterprise value decisions facing owners and leaders.
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Dolo Miah
CTO Linebreak, CEO New Icon
Dolo brings more than 30 years of enterprise technology and architecture experience, including senior roles at Capgemini and Sopra Steria.
He runs New Icon, Linebreak’s software and innovation team of 12 developers, and connects commercial opportunities with practical engineering and delivery.
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Hugo Parent-Leduc
CPO Linebreak, Head of Value Creation
Hugo combines engineering, finance and corporate strategy to assess the commercial case, development economics and routes to value creation.
He shapes Future Advantage as CPO and helps leadership teams distinguish interesting possibilities from opportunities worth pursuing.
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Where to go next
An acquisition, a business you want to grow or an idea worth exploring. Tell us what’s on your mind.