Nate de la Montaña

Bio-hacker and entrepreneur //
Implementing AI-driven Ops-as-a-Service @ SMBs //
Faith, family, fitness

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

"𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐞."

That's my co-founder @adambhighfill, in a piece worth reading this week.

https://t.co/cPvIQnfcJn

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@LargeFamDad @adambhighfill Repulsed by a bloody nose. Lol. You are just soft and trying to cover it up with your faith.
“I have watched stuff” - amazing qualifier for your opinion.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion.

But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984?

This is the real alignment problem.

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians?

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.

[Adam Highfill @adambhighfill]

PE deal teams are spending 30+ hours synthesizing a data room before having analysis worth presenting. Many more hours before it's distilled into a deck for IC.

We built an agentic system that does it in minutes.

Not a generic AI summary. A structured output mapped to YOUR firm's thesis, YOUR investment criteria, YOUR IC format.

Feed it the CIMs, financials, and market data. Get back a board-ready report:

→ Company overview
→ Key YoY metrics and trend flags
→ Risk alerts — QoE, legal exposure, market headwinds
→ Investment thesis scored against your criteria & past deals

Under the hood is a full pipeline you own: document parsing, vector retrieval, AI agent analysis, custom structured PDF output.

For your deal team: two weeks of work compressed into hours.

For your IC: consistent, structured intelligence on every deal. Not whatever an exhausted associate pulled together at midnight after the 14th round of "pls fix."

The firms moving fastest are embedding intelligence systematically into the deal process, not treating AI like as a research experiment.

I put together a full breakdown of how this system works, including the architecture, the logic, and how it adapts to different firm criteria.

Comment "DEAL" and I'll send it your way.

hashtag#PrivateEquity hashtag#LBO hashtag#DueDiligence hashtag#AIAgents hashtag#DealFlow hashtag#HighlanePartners hashtag#Claude hashtag#PE

[Adam Highfill @adambhighfill]

We analyzed 166 U.S. lower- and middle-market PE transactions to build a comprehensive set of benchmarks on operational value creation for 2026.

One number stood out: 98% of sponsors mandate AI. Less than 33% of PortCo CEOs have implemented it.

That gap is showing up in realized returns.

Here's what else the data shows:

· 54–71% of realized exit value now comes from operational levers, not financial engineering
· Decentralized AI (where each OpCo is evaluating and building on its own) carries a 95% pilot failure rate
· Digital laggards are taking a 5%+ valuation haircut at exit, priced into the IOI before the bid lands

The firms pulling ahead build infrastructure once at HQ and plug every OpCo in. Everyone else is accumulating digital debt they'll pay for at sale.

The math on doing nothing is getting worse every quarter.

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Side note: the full brief is 17 pages with 2025–2026 benchmarks, an AI maturity scorecard, and a prescriptive playbook built for managing partners and operating teams.

Comment PE and I’ll send it.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@SahilBloom Are you complaining about complainers here?

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@emollick The gatekeeping legislature changes slowly, but it changes. At some point.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@DSweetTexas We have actually been able to pull some of these on to our side by getting their most annoying tasks done by AI they trust.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@HunterLapeyre @glassguycope I thought: "great post, I can ask if he wants help implementing some AI Agents to help with all that data"
Then I read the comments haha

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@Slackwatercap Definitively B. The way we implement AI, no long training or onboarding is needed anyways. Get 20-30% more efficient teams from day 1.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@bprintco True!!! So hard to change that.

We are trying to drive adoption by implementing AI in the most annoying and repetitive tasks. Therefore, all of our set ups stick well.

Replace 30 x copy-paste with 1 button click does the charm. Also, we take care of the maintenance.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

When the model gets better or worse next quarter, who in your org rewrites the prompt logic and retrains the team? If that person doesn't exist, the exponential gains don't reach the workflow.
At Highlane we build and maintain everything modular. You want to switch model? - np, 2 clicks and its done. We adjust the prompts. You focus on getting work done.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@Codie_Sanchez Wouldn't hire a pm thatr is happy with 90%...

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@adambhighfill @vrexec Well, I mean given how many million people just come to Europe, get free healthcare and education without contributing anything, I see why he got confused...

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@jamesonhaslam Wait until you whip out the belt 😉

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@adambhighfill Zing

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@rohanpaul_ai What if it rains though?
https://t.co/zD8PtJhiFh

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@theallinpod @grok through which food might I be exposed in Spain?

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

This

[Kevin | Large Fam Dad @LargeFamDad]

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.

Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.

Great guy, I'm happy for him.

But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.

What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.

Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.

Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.

Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.

Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.

Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.

Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.

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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.

Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

[Nate de la Montaña @natedelamonte]

@Jason I’m in