Horatius RealAI™
Our mission is to make your company more valuable.
Horatius uniquely combines traditional M&A advisory with our proprietary RealAI™ strategy and implementation methodology which ensures your business invests in the right AI, implements it efficiently, and adopts it effectively.
Strategic Impact for Your Business
Over 95% of AI projects fail to create real competitive advantage because they use off-the-shelf tools like ChatGPT that were trained on massive, generic internet data—not your business.
These “big data” AI systems are:
- Slow and expensive, requiring enormous infrastructure and ongoing cost.
- Black boxes, hard to interpret or trust for key business decisions.
- Easily confused, since they were trained on massive amounts of data that is irrelevant to your business
Big
- Architecture: transformers
- Slow & Expensive
- Black box
Value Created
95% of these projects fail to make companies more valuable (MIT)
Medium
- Architecture: compact
- Fast & Efficient
- Transparent & Explainable
Value Created
Increase margins & multiples
Small
- Not enough data for AI
Value Created
Limited to traditional business intelligence (BI) – statistics & data visualization
*Winning with AI is predicated on creating real competitive advantage with proprietary AI—trained on your businesses’ medium-data.
RealAI Strategic Advisory: Data Audit & Project Selection
We start with a two week engagement working directly with your CEO and leadership to:
- Understand your goals and strategy to achieve them.
- Identify where data creates maximum leverage—pinpointing the decisions that drive margin and growth.
- Select the right AI investments, avoiding hype and focusing on opportunities that will compound enterprise value and appeal to buyers.
- Assess your culture for AI readiness, mitigating risk that your team rejects valuable AI solutions.
Horatius guides your organization from curiosity about AI to confident adoption.
RealAI™ Implementation: Proprietary AI that Accelerates Growth
Next, our elite team of data scientists and software engineers, empowered by our proprietary RealAI™ technology, build a prototype of your self-learning AI system in ~60 days.
Middle-market companies win with “medium data”—focused, high-quality datasets that drive proprietary intelligence and faster learning loops.
This is where RealAI™ thrives: aligning your business strategy with your data to power systems that are efficient, explainable, and uniquely yours.
Quantifiable Results
BizDev
Scan satellite imagery for U.S. paving opportunities
2x submitted bids. New revenue stream and M&A pipeline
Bidding
Estimate job size and details
2x labor efficiency
Pricing
Dynamic pricing insights
150+ basis point margin increase
Why Horatius?
Purpose-Built for the Middle Market —
Tailored for project-based and service businesses, not retrofitted big-tech tools.
Transparent & Defensible —
Every prediction is explainable to your CFO, board, and auditors.
Fast ROI —
Integrated within your existing stack for results in weeks, not years.
Cost-Effective —
The impact of a full data science and engineering team at the cost of one capable data scientist.
Strategic M&A Value —
Quantifies how your proprietary data expands post-acquisition margins and valuation multiples.
The RealAI™ Advantage
Off-the-shelf AI does not create competitive advantage.
Real advantage comes from aligning your strategy with your unique data and business model, without spending $10M.
Horatius RealAI™ systems:
- Learn from your outcomes
- Get sharper every quarter
- Create compounding advantage your competitors
can replicate because they don’t have your data
