AI is fundamentally transforming the hunt for undervalued SMEs

Thanks to Bilan Magazine and Joan Plancade for this feature, alongside Maurice NDiaye (Descartes & Mauss) and Stanislas Chanavat (Pictet Group).

This is what Bilan Magazine reveals in its May 2026 report — and it's exactly what we've been building at Seerius from day one.

Our approach: 4 AI agents working continuously

• The detective scans legal registries, LinkedIn, local press (analyzing 50+ digital fatigue signals), with API access to Zefix, FOSC, OpenSwissData for Switzerland.
• The analyst evaluates key ratios — EBITDA, debt, revenue — and runs a scoring model based on Seerius's investment thesis (Swiss and European SMEs).
• The writer generates an anonymized teaser within minutes.
• The outreach: a personalized email sent to the targeted SME's leadership.

What these agents process in parallel — thousands of weak signals, hundreds of simultaneous sources, 24/7 — no army of analysts in the world could do at this scale and speed.

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The advantage isn't economic. It's structural.

Where a human analyst handles one file at a time, our agents continuously scan an entire market — before targets even appear on traditional funds' radar.

But beyond sourcing, something deeper is changing.

AI is becoming an investment criterion in its own right. An SME's ability to integrate it — culturally, not just technically — is now something we assess before every deal.

We see this firsthand with Descartes & Mauss, a startup backed by Seerius: developers who have integrated AI show 3 to 5x higher productivity. A doubling of profit where digitalization alone only delivered a few points of EBITDA.

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Tomorrow's competitive edge is being built today, in the SMEs that learn to augment their intelligence.

The Seerius Team

Seerius — The Private Equity Gateway. Augmented.
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