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#113 - Young Lee & Asheesh Gupta: Audax AI Value Creation

Mar 10, 2026
Asheesh Gupta, Managing Director who embeds data and AI into operations, and Young Lee, Co‑President experienced in buy‑and‑build value creation, discuss embedding AI into operating models. They cover time‑to‑decision, capturing unstructured data, building 60+ custom GPT workflows, preventing bias, productivity gains, and patterns that drive successful AI adoption across portfolios.
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ADVICE

Actively Build Counterfactuals To Avoid Bias Amplification

  • Prevent bias amplification by collecting unselected datasets, systematically generating counterarguments, and enforcing norms for neutral factual reporting.
  • Use a devil's advocate workflow and include deals not done to avoid confirmation bias.
ANECDOTE

How Audax Shrunk A 3‑Day Task To Minutes

  • Audax built ~60 custom GPT portals addressing 100+ workflow use cases, cutting a three-day analyst task to 10–15 minutes.
  • The devil's advocate GPT interrogates memos and hiring decisions to surface uncomfortable questions based on 25 years of deal history.
INSIGHT

Fluency Is Use Case Mastery Not Tool Mastery

  • Fluency means leaders can identify high‑value use cases and ask the right cross-functional questions, not just tool proficiency.
  • Ask use‑case first questions and let teams find the tools, avoiding tool‑forward deployment.
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