HEKZÉ and NoeSysAI announce the launch of an unprecedented AI Due Diligence solution designed to help investment funds assess a company’s ability to create value through Artificial Intelligence (AI). Built through a strategic partnership that combines operational expertise, scientific excellence and a shared commitment to responsible finance, this approach sets a new standard of rigorous analysis rooted in objective evidence and structured evaluation.
A combined expertise serving investors
This initiative originates from the report “The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Firms”, published by the OECD, the Boston Consulting Group and INSEAD, to which Professor Theodoros Evgeniou contributed. This work inspired a joint reflection between HEKZÉ and NoeSysAI, the latter co founded by Professor Evgeniou and Gaël Gioux. Their complementary backgrounds, combining leading scientific expertise with deep knowledge of how AI is deployed within organizations, form a solid foundation to address the challenges currently facing investors.
Bringing together HEKZÉ’s experience in private equity and NoeSysAI’s applied artificial intelligence expertise, the two organizations have developed a solution specifically designed for investment funds. It supports the due diligence process by providing a rigorous, objective and operational assessment of a company’s real capacity to create value with AI.
Towards the first pre investment AI value assessment tool
This solution evaluates both the credibility of the technological claims made by companies and the tangible potential for operational optimization enabled by AI. This dual perspective makes it possible to distinguish genuine innovation from narrative positioning, giving investors a clear view of the levers, risks and opportunities at stake. It also promotes more responsible capital allocation by highlighting investments that are truly value creating and aligned with an ethical use of AI.
The ambition is significant: to create the first market tool capable of assessing AI value before investment, in order to strengthen decision making and reinforce value creation assumptions. By combining the rigor of private equity with advanced expertise in artificial intelligence, HEKZÉ and NoeSysAI aim to bring evidence where others rely on declarations, helping investors capture tomorrow’s value even before deals are finalized. The solution is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2026.
“We are delighted with this collaboration with NoeSysAI, which allows us to work with world leading experts in applied AI. Our joint project is founded on a core principle: AI is both an opportunity and an imperative, it is not an off-the-shelf solution and not a magic wand. Understanding the role of AI within a company and its potential to create value involves technology of course, but just as much leadership, organization and the capacity to develop a vision. It is the ability to stay one step ahead of the market. A real poker game in anticipating the AI moves of others,” comments Eric Dodin, President and co founder of HEKZÉ.
“I am very pleased with this partnership between HEKZÉ and NoeSysAI. Together, we offer investors an AI due diligence approach that goes far beyond technology. It analyses the value creation logic, the quality of the data, the governance foundations, the operational maturity and the real capacity of companies to deploy AI in the coming years. Based on verifiable indicators, not slogans, we provide an essential lever to reveal the real potential of portfolio companies and maximize their future performance,” adds Theodoros Evgeniou, co founder of NoeSysAI.
ABOUT HEKZÉ
A trusted partner for investment funds and their portfolio companies, HEKZÉ supports management teams to accelerate operational value creation, particularly in the areas of revenue and capital structure. Led by experienced executives who understand the demands of private equity, the firm combines deep operational experience with a pragmatic approach to technology and AI to address the challenges faced by GPs today. Convinced that “in the end everything comes down to leadership and agility”, HEKZÉ works alongside management during critical moments, including complex exits or underperforming assets, to deliver measurable and sustainable performance.
HEKZÉ is a subsidiary of the Grant Alexander group.
www.hekze.com
ABOUT NOESYSAI
Founded by Theodoros Evgeniou (Professor at INSEAD) and Gaël Gioux, NoeSysAI is a consulting firm specialized in applied artificial intelligence that combines academic excellence with real world operational experience to turn AI into a lever for measurable and sustainable impact. NoeSysAI supports organizations in defining their AI strategy, developing internal capabilities, establishing appropriate governance frameworks and deploying solutions integrated into business processes, with precise measurement of their performance effects. The firm also works with investment funds, upstream to assess the AI value creation potential and adoption capacity of target companies, and downstream to design and manage AI plans within portfolio companies. This dual technical and operational expertise enables NoeSysAI to help executives and investors fully capture the potential of AI as a driver of performance, growth and differentiation.
www.noesysai.com