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Are you tired of watching leads slip through your fingers and feeling the pain of missed opportunities?

Like 319 leads that can turn into $49,000 in sales...

You’re not alone!

Businesses lose potential sales every day.

But what if I told you that 319 lost leads turned into $49,000 of sales?

Yes you read that right.

In today’s digital landscape it’s easy to get overwhelmed.

Your ideal customers are quietly slipping away.

Every lost lead represents a unique story of potential pain unfulfilled needs and hidden desires.

Imagine investing time and resources into attracting leads only to watch them vanish.

The rejection is suffocating.

You question your strategy your messaging and your product.

Did you have the right message? The right offer? 

Did you follow up enough? 

But it doesn’t have to end there.

By revisiting those lost connections with empathy and strategic outreach our client warmed up...

qualified...

and closed leads that were done for!

Dead leads? 

Not quite...

The results speak for themselves.

A staggering $49,000 in sales from lost leads.

You want to do the same? 

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Emeric Marc

Strategic growth and M&A leader with over 15 years of experience spanning capital markets, artificial intelligence, investor relations, and business transformation. I specialize in building platforms that combine human strategy and machine intelligence to accelerate deal origination, portfolio value creation, and capital deployment.

As Chief Strategy Officer and Founder of several AI-native companies (Njord.ai, Kairos Intelligence, Freya), I’ve helped family offices, private equity funds, and growth-stage platforms unlock proprietary deal flow, expand into new markets, and optimize both pre- and post-acquisition value.

🔹 Core Expertise

Chief Strategy Officer | Operating Partner | Growth & Origination Executive

M&A Strategy | Deal Origination | Post-Merger Integration | AI-Enhanced Due Diligence

Investor Relations | Fundraising Strategy | Strategic Capital Deployment

AI Tools for Origination | Data-Driven Targeting | Predictive Analytics for Investment

Portfolio Optimization | Revenue Growth Strategy | Go-to-Market Leadership

Family Office Strategy | Private Equity Platforms | Independent Sponsors

🔹 Recent Roles & Achievements

Led AI-driven deal origination for TriPhoenix Partners and PitchCapital (former)

Built Njord.ai to connect institutional lenders and capital-seeking companies using 15,000+ datapoints

Scaled Kairos Intelligence as a full-service AI marketing platform, driving revenue and EBITDA lift for roll-ups

Advised family offices on acquisition strategy, investor comms, and platform build-outs

I’m open to CSO, Head of Origination, Managing Director, or Operating Partner roles—particularly within family offices, PE-backed platforms, or growth-stage companies with bold visions.

Let’s connect if you're building a team to outpace the market.

James Stephan-Usypchuk

I spent 2,555 days—exactly 7 years—obsessing over a single variable.

Most people see a spreadsheet and see numbers. 

I see the heartbeat of a legacy. 

I audited 12,847 data points across 4,200 separate Excel files until my vision blurred and the macros started speaking back to me. 

The data doesn’t lie: Excel is the horse and buggy of the digital age.

If you’re still "auditing" workbooks, you’ve already lost. 

At Ecliptica-Ops, we didn’t just iterate. We nuked the spreadsheet. 

We built the Constellation Engine. 

Today, our proprietary algorithmic moat identifies opportunities 14.2 months before the founders even know they want to sell. 

The result? 

A 4,800% increase in pipeline velocity and a 98.7% reduction in “human error.”

Here is what 61,320 hours of forensic data-shoveling revealed about the Private Equity landscape:

Legacy is a liability: If you’re still using .xlsx files, your deal flow is leaking at a rate of 14% per hour.
Decision hyper-automation: We A/B tested Constellation’s AI against traditional methods. The Engine was 84% faster and required zero vacation days. 
The Alpha Void: 1.01^365 isn’t math. It’s a weapon. Use it or become a statistic.

Most people "network." 

I leverage systemic frameworks to architect a reality where deal flow is as certain as gravity. 

The delta between "searching" and "finding" is Ecliptica. 

#MergersAcquisitions #PrivateEquity #Venture #Growth #Finance #PE

Managing Partner @ Ecliptica | Operating Layer for Off-Market Origination, Capital Readiness & Strategic Scale | Built for Small to Mid-Market, Private Equity, Family Offices

If investment firms felt last year’s talent pressures, 2026 is a wake-up call: the leadership pipeline crisis is here. With entry-level talent thinning and traditional succession tracks fading, private equity and family offices are struggling to cultivate their next generation of leaders: right when complexity and market volatility demand it most. 

At JSU Solutions, we’re seeing top investment teams leverage fractional CSO support and institutional-grade AI, not just as stopgaps, but as strategic infrastructure for sustainable leadership growth. The right frameworks: coupled with systematic AI: enable firms to identify, elevate, and empower leaders rapidly, no matter how the landscape shifts. 

Leadership development isn’t just an HR initiative anymore; it’s the core engine for future-ready organizations.

#LeadershipCrisis #InstitutionalAI #PrivateEquity #StrategicGrowth #InvestmentLeadership #FutureOfWork

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Months of due diligence can miss what systematic intelligence finds in days. Recently, our proprietary AI.DA 3.0 platform at JSU Solutions surfaced an off-market M&A candidate that had been overlooked by dozens of traditional deal teams. By deeply cross-referencing market signals, private benchmarks, and dynamic fits well outside standard industry screens, our pipeline revealed a low-profile operator with stellar fundamentals; completely invisible on conventional radar. The result? A private equity client gained proprietary access, driving a materially better entry multiple and strategic fit. Technical rigor, not luck, made the difference. 

#PrivateEquity #AI #DealSourcing #MergersAndAcquisitions #OffMarket #GrowthStrategy

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Top-performing companies aren’t just leveraging AI: they are systematizing value creation by embedding strategic AI frameworks at the core of operations. Research shows these leaders are 32x more likely to implement end-to-end frameworks: not just tactical point solutions.

For mid-market PE groups, this isn’t incremental: it’s exponential. Strategic AI frameworks don’t just automate tasks; they unlock cross-functional velocity, create resilience in deal origination, and transform leadership capacity from firefighting to forward-driving. 

This approach turns fragmented AI adoption into a repeatable system, accelerating growth and increasing enterprise value where operational complexity usually slows progress.

#AIVelocity #StrategicGrowth #JSUSolutions #MidMarketPE #AIinBusiness

Managing Partner @ Ecliptica | Pipeline Infrastructure for Private Equity | Off-Market Origination Built to Run Continuously | 15+ Years AI-Driven Systems

Private equity’s playbook is changing. Top firms are stepping away from manual deal sourcing and embracing AI platforms to unlock proprietary dealflow: fast, systematic, and with precision that traditional methods can’t match.

For growth-stage companies above $5M in revenue, this shift isn’t just a footnote: it’s the new competitive edge. The landscape now rewards those with strategic infrastructure and access to technology that surfaces off-market opportunities before anyone else. Forget cold emails or endless conference rounds: proprietary origination tech is filtering out the noise and connecting capital with real, actionable opportunities.

At JSU Solutions, our AI.DA 3.0 platform is built for the serious players: designed to deliver systematic off-market sourcing, leveraging frameworks trusted by industry leaders. If your team is ready to move from deal chasing to deal winning, it’s time to understand how AI is transforming private equity.

#PrivateEquity #DealOrigination #AIPlatform #Mergers #GrowthStrategy #Innovation #VentureCapital #InvestmentTrends #JSUSolutions

Deconflicting coverage isn’t admin work. It’s deal protection.

In small PE groups, the fastest way to create internal friction (and external confusion) is partner overlap: two people unknowingly pursuing the same company, or worse: double-touching the same founder.

Two controls solve 90% of it:

1) Territory / sector ownership rules
Define “who owns what” at the edge cases:
• HQ vs operating geography
• sector tags vs sub-verticals
• add-ons vs platforms
• relationship-owned vs thesis-owned
The goal isn’t rigid walls: it’s a deterministic tiebreaker.

2) Identity resolution (entity matching)
Your CRM can’t deconflict if “Acme Cyber”, “Acme Security Inc”, and “ACME (HoldCo)” are treated as different targets.
A practical identity layer uses:
• domain + email patterns
• legal entity + DBA mappings
• address/phone normalization
• parent/subsidiary graphing

When these two layers combine, outreach becomes governed:
one firm, one owner, one conversation: tracked end-to-end.

#PrivateEquity #MergersAndAcquisitions #DealOrigination #OffMarket

IC-ready sourcing isn’t “more deal flow.” It’s fewer, cleaner decisions.

Small PE teams don’t lose time in the IC: they lose it before the IC:
- scattered notes
- inconsistent thesis framing
- missing evidence
- no clear owner for “what’s true”

We’ve been standardizing IC-ready sourcing memos as evidence packs generated from an AI-audited pipeline.

Each memo is built the same way, every time:
1) Why this company: fit to mandate, industry map position, differentiation
2) Why now: catalysts, timing, dislocation, urgency signals
3) Why us: angle, access, value creation plan, right-to-win

The point isn’t a prettier PDF.
It’s a repeatable decision artifact: auditable inputs → consistent narrative → faster conviction.

#PrivateEquity #MergersAndAcquisitions #DealSourcing #ArtificialIntelligence #Strategy

Once, cutting-edge off-market deal sourcing was reserved for the giants: think BlackRock and Blackstone. Now, AI is flipping that script entirely. Advances in proprietary data science, like those behind JSU Solutions’ origination technology, are letting growth-stage leaders access signals and opportunities that once took entire analyst divisions to uncover. 

Leveraging system innovation and technical precision, we’re enabling principal-led investors and mid-market leaders to systematically unlock hidden deals: precision-matched to their strategies: backed by an unprecedented data advantage. The future isn’t gated. It’s open. And the best deal flow? No longer a Fortune 100 secret.

#AIDrivenDealFlow #OffMarketDeals #Innovation #DataAdvantage #DealOrigination #JSUSolutions

My lock screen this morning is a quiet reminder of what happens when your systems finally start to outpace your hustle.

This is what proprietary deal flow actually looks like.

It’s not just about the volume; it’s about the intent.

Looking through these notifications, I see more than just calendar invites.

I see a CEO who has opened a proposal four times in the last hour. 
I see an off-market logistical lead with a 28-year founder tenure ready to talk exit. 
I see $24M in new pipeline value identified while I was focused on existing mandates.

When the pipeline is working, you don't chase—you select.

The reality of M&A and high-level business development is that the best opportunities never hit the open market. They happen in the "off-market" slivers of time where your system meets a founder's readiness.

Every notification here represents a conversation, a transition, or a new chapter for a business owner.

Most people think success in this game is about working 80-hour weeks.
In reality, it’s about building a stack that surfaces the right signal at the right time.

True leverage isn't more activity. It's better intelligence.

Systems over hustle. Every single time. 📈

How are you ensuring your deal flow is proprietary rather than just "part of the crowd"?
Ecliptica-Ops Cassandra Steele

#Offmarket #PrivateEquity #MergersAcquisitions #FamilyOffice #RollUps #Finance

It's no secret: private equity leadership teams are tired of playing operational whack-a-mole. The era where CEOs are operational firefighters is fading fast. What’s next? Leadership teams orchestrating from above, system-driven, leveraging frameworks that liberate and scale, not suffocate. 

At JSU Solutions, we see the shift firsthand: trusted leaders escaping ops chaos through proven structures and next-gen AI. The boardroom is evolving from bottleneck to growth engine. When strategy and systems take precedence, growth compounds: and operational shackles finally break.

#LeadershipTransformation #OperationalLiberation #StrategicGrowth #PrivateEquity #AIinBusiness #JSUSolutions

Ever wonder what’s lurking beneath the surface when leadership gets pulled into daily operations: especially during rapid AI adoption?

For small PE groups, the hidden costs stack up fast: strategic focus slips, value creation slows, and burnout creeps in. When key people are stuck firefighting tech “issues”, deals stall and growth architecture freezes.

It’s not just a productivity drop: it’s a direct hit to firm valuation and competitiveness. The most successful teams build strategic infrastructure that liberates leadership headspace.

At JSU Solutions, we’ve developed system frameworks and AI tech trusted by global investment leaders to free ownership focus. Our clients shift from operational firefighting to driving high-impact growth and M&A outcomes.

In this market, operational “busyness” is a risk, not a badge. Liberate leadership, unlock value.

#PrivateEquity #TechAdoption #LeadershipLiberation #AITransformation #StrategicGrowth #JSUSolutions

Most M&A teams are still using spreadsheets and legacy platforms: even as Gen AI is slashing deal cycles by 30-50%. The real game changer? Advanced AI pipelines that spot, qualify, and advance opportunities with precision and speed.

With AI.DA 3.0, we’ve left behind the manual bottlenecks. Our platform systematically sources, tracks, and de-risks off-market deals, providing real-time intelligence that turns days into hours and creates a strategic edge for decisive teams. If you’re still managing M&A with basic tools, you’re playing catch-up while digital-native outliers move fast.

#ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #MandA #Dealmaking #OperationalExcellence #Leadership #Growth #PrivateEquity

CEOs at growth-stage and portfolio companies know the tension: one side is burnout from relentless firefighting, the other is being freed to actually drive strategic growth. The real separator? Systematization: AI-backed infrastructure that moves leadership from bottleneck to breakthrough.

At JSU Solutions, we've seen the shift firsthand. By integrating our Synapse Framework and proprietary AI.DA 3.0 platform, we transition leadership teams off the operational hot seat. This isn't just automation: it's embedding decision intelligence, systematic off-market deal origination, and scalable growth workflows.

The result? Board-level visibility, operational clarity, and a CEO whose bandwidth is liberated for high-impact moves: not just inbox triage. When tech and strategy mesh, leadership transforms. #LeadershipLiberation #AIinBusiness #OperationalExcellence #GrowthArchitecture #FutureOfWork

Most small PE teams are haunted by "zombie deals": those opportunities that linger for months before eventually dying a slow, expensive death.

In a lean team, you can’t afford to let deal fatigue cloud your judgment. That’s why we’re shifting the focus from deal sourcing to deal disqualification.

At JSU Solutions, we’re building "kill switches" directly into the data science layer of the deal thesis. It’s not just about finding opportunities; it’s about automated contradiction detection. 

We set predefined disqualifiers: non-negotiables that immediately flag a deal the moment the data doesn't align with the core thesis. If the off-market data contradicts your investment pillars, the system kills the momentum before you waste another hour of partner time.

Our AI.DA 3.0 platform is designed to handle the messiness of off-market origination so you don’t have to. By automating the "No," you clear the path for the high-conviction moves that actually matter.

Stop chasing ghosts. Build a system that protects your time and your capital.

When leadership teams are deep in operations, real growth slips through the cracks. What if you could trade the reactive firefighting for a system where your focus: and your results: shift to strategic growth? 

The Synapse Framework is helping PE-backed teams: and leadership of $5M+ companies: reclaim their time, eliminate bottlenecks, and transform their impact. This isn’t theory: it’s a measurable transition from last-minute execution to proactive enterprise scaling. 

With system-driven workflows and proprietary AI technology, Synapse enables leadership to spend less time in ops and more time unlocking value: delivering results seen in top investment portfolios. Strategic infrastructure, not burnout, is becoming the default. 

#Leadership #GrowthFramework #PrivateEquity #StrategicTransformation #JSUSolutions #PE #OperationalExcellence #AIinBusiness

Remember when consulting was all endless spreadsheets and slide decks from a distance? That era is over: and it’s about time.

Today’s game-changers aren’t legacy consultants; they’re embedded partners who roll up their sleeves. Strategic CSOs working alongside leadership, empowered by battle-tested frameworks and real AI. At JSU Solutions, we’ve seen first-hand: automated workflows + expert guidance is a multiplier, not a replacement.

Our clients don’t want a strategy binder gathering dust. They want operational bottlenecks gone: and a growth system built for scale, not burnout. That’s why we drive results with hands-on partnership and proprietary tools like our AI.DA 3.0 platform.

Out with arm’s length advice. In with embedded CSO models and AI-powered strategic infrastructure. That’s the future; and it’s happening now.

#strategicgrowth #consultingtransformation #AItechnology #leadership #innovation #operations #JSUSolutions

NJORD.AI is Njord Venture Group's proprietary Artificial Intelligence solution operated by the Njord team.

Njord is direct to a range of direct lenders, institutional banks, capital management firms, and other financial partners to seek out profitable financing opportunities and to engage with companies in search of capital. Each of them has its own specific criteria, which is where Njord.ai thrives.

Our algorithm identifies and connects groups looking for capital with capital sources looking for high-quality mandates.

As long as you have a Njord.ai Membership, your company will be added to our evolving repository and will be regularly pitched to our Financial Partners with the objective of an introduction via Zoom/Email.

With this NJORD.AI's algorithm will prioritize:

1. Exposure to Financial Partners who specialize in Corporate Financing (Debt, Equity, Trade Finance, M&A)

2. Making Potential Email/Zoom Introductions with Financial Partners

3. Onboarding Process to properly pair you with NJORD Financial Partners

Upon registration, NJORD will require a Corporate Presentation/Deck

Presentation must include:

1. Company Overview
2. Management Overview
3. Revenue (or Projections)
4. Capital Needs (Min. 10M USD)
5. Use of Funds

Feel free to send your corporate deck to info@njordventuregroup.com if you either want to be part of our Financial Partner network or looking to raise capital.

Most firms still view AI as a basic utility: one more tool in the box. But in the high-velocity world of off-market deal origination, that mindset limits what’s possible.

When AI is embedded as a strategic ‘colleague’: not just a tool: it multiplies the reach of smaller PE teams, delivering insight, speed, and clarity in a way no simple application can. That’s a game-changer for principal-led groups whose scale demands far more than manual research or rinse-repeat automation.

At JSU, our AI.DA 3.0 platform isn’t just a helper. It actively collaborates: scanning unseen opportunity spaces, surfacing intelligent deal leads, and providing system-level feedback loops that sharpen accuracy and principal velocity. AI.DA 3.0 transforms origination from a scatter-plot of inbound deals to a coordinated, anticipatory discipline.

#PrivateEquity #DealOrigination #AIinFinance #SystemsThinking #GrowthStrategy

Buyer-to-seller matching is closer to constrained optimization than “who likes who.”

For small PE teams, the constraint set is the strategy:

You’re not just maximizing “fit.” You’re maximizing fit subject to:
- Thesis alignment (where value creation is actually mechanistic, not narrative)
- Timing signals (why this owner, why now, why a process might not be coming)
- Integration risk (systems, data, leadership bandwidth, and the cost of transition)

In practice, each deal is a score under constraints, not a binary yes/no.

A strong match often isn’t the highest-scoring company on paper: it’s the best feasible match when you price in timing asymmetry and post-close execution capacity.

That’s why the winning approach looks less like sourcing volume and more like systematically ranking feasibility.

#MergersAndAcquisitions #PrivateEquity #DealSourcing #AI

If you're running a small PE team, your biggest risk isn't missing a deal. It's looking like a mess before you even get to the LOI.

Off-market sourcing is a high-stakes game. But when your AI outreach hits a founder the same day your lending partner calls them: and your GP is already connected to them on LinkedIn: you aren't 'omnipresent.' You’re just noisy.

Channel conflict is the silent killer of credibility. If your partners, bankers, and automated systems aren't talking to each other, you’re burning shots with the best targets.

At JSU Solutions, we’ve seen how lean teams solve this. It’s not about doing less; it’s about systematic de-confliction. We use our AI.DA 3.0 platform to create a central source of truth for the entire deal ecosystem. 

By measuring overlap across every touchpoint, you ensure that when you finally reach out, it feels intentional, not accidental.

A clean pipeline is a professional pipeline. Don't let a lack of system destroy your deal flow before it starts.

Thanks for having me on the podcast Sheldon Poon ! #Marketing #AI #PrivateEquity #MergersandAcquisitions #Smallbiz

AI is changing the business landscape, but not everyone is keeping up. In this discussion, we explore how companies are struggling with false personalization from AI tools and why failing to integrate AI strategically can impact performance and valuation. 

Watch the full conversation on YouTube to hear insights from industry experts: https://lnkd.in/gBajygaX

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