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title: "How VC Platform Teams Use AI and Automation"
description: "Watch how platform leaders at HV Capital and Earlybird decide what to automate, what stays human, and where to buy data instead of building it."
url: "https://www.findem.ai/webinars/ai-and-automation-for-vc-platform-teams"
---

# AI and Automation for VC Platform Teams

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- Hari Kolam Findem
- Jay Anna Harris-Thies Earlybird
- Anna Ott HV Capital
- Andre Retterath Earlybird

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## Overview

Most VC platform teams are one person. At HV Capital, that person supports more than 150 portfolio companies. At Earlybird, platform sits inside a cross-functional team that also covers comms, events, and operations. Neither firm plans to hire to keep pace. So the question stops being how to adopt AI and starts being which parts of the job can run without the person in the middle.

This roundtable with [Data Driven VC](https://datadrivenvc.io/events/ai-automation-for-platform-teams) covers what three platform leaders have actually put into production. Anna built a knowledge base from portfolio conversations, then layered a skill on top that handles the architecture questions she used to answer by hand: comp policy, onboarding, performance management. A second skill takes a founder's bare list of job titles and returns competitor hiring patterns, market size, candidate archetypes, lead times, and a feasibility read she can take straight into the conversation. Earlybird is consolidating comms and portfolio content into a single source of truth so the team can surface patterns instead of re-deriving them each time.

Where the group disagrees is more interesting. Measurement is contested — one speaker argues against OKRs for platform work entirely, on the grounds that the value sits in crises that never surfaced. The [buy versus build](https://www.findem.ai/blog/vc-pe-talent-ai-tools) question gets a sharper answer than usual: buy reliable data at scale, build only where the firm holds context no vendor can assemble.

## Key takeaways

- Why benchmarks, market analysis, and curated candidate lists no longer justify a person's time, and what [platform teams](https://www.findem.ai/solutions/vc-pe-platform) are holding themselves to instead
- How to build a knowledge base from portfolio conversations that answers repeat questions without flattening the advice into a template
- How to turn a founder's list of job titles into a challenged hiring plan, with market size, archetypes, lead times, and an honest read on whether it's achievable at that budget
- Where two platform leaders draw the line on measuring their own impact, and the case against OKRs for the function
- How to decide what to buy and what to build, using compensation data as the worked example

## Speakers

- Hari Kolam CEO and Co-founder Findem
- Jay Anna Harris-Thies VP, Portfolio Excellence Earlybird
- Anna Ott VP, People HV Capital
- Andre Retterath General Partner Earlybird