Everyone in private equity is running AI pilots. Far fewer are seeing it show up on the P&L. Valerie Legat of Astorg brings a portfolio operator's perspective on why the gap between use case and real impact remains stubbornly wide — and what it actually takes to move from isolated experiments to repeatable, productised solutions across a portfolio.

In conversation with Dean Hill of ECI, the discussion covers the two distinct AI implementation tracks for portfolio companies, the role of communities of practice in scaling knowledge, and why the next 12 to 18 months will be defined by whether executive teams can become genuinely fluent in AI — not just familiar with it.