Solen AI Innovation Center
Your Software, Amplified.
Every company that partners with Solen gets dedicated AI expertise from day one. The Solen AI Innovation Center works alongside your team to accelerate software development, enhance your product, and build the capabilities that keep your software competitive for the long term.
Our Approach
AI Built to Make Your Software Stronger
Solen acquires mission-critical software businesses and holds them for the long term. That permanent capital model shapes everything we invest in, including the AI Innovation Center. This is a long-term commitment to keeping the businesses in our portfolio relevant, competitive, and growing.
The AI Innovation Center works alongside the teams inside each company. We bring dedicated AI expertise and AI integration services to support what those teams already do well, focused on where AI creates the most durable value for your product and your customers.
What We Do
How the AI Innovation Center Helps Your Team
We focus on the areas where AI has the clearest impact on software quality, product innovation, and long-term competitiveness. Every company that joins Solen sets its own priorities based on its customers and its market.
01
Accelerate Software Development
We help your team move faster. AI-assisted development shortens the time between idea and product, so you can respond to your market and bring new features to customers without waiting on resources.
02
Enhance Your Product
We identify where AI integration services can make your product more valuable to the people using it, from smarter features to deeper integration with your customers' workflows. The goal is software your customers find more indispensable over time.
03
Build New Products and Capabilities
Good software teams always have product ideas that never got the bandwidth they deserved. We bring the extra hands and AI product development expertise to move those ideas forward so they reach your customers.
04
Modernize Your Platform
Software built to last still needs to evolve. We help bring platforms up to date with modern architecture and AI-ready foundations, so your product stays competitive and relevant for decades, not just the next release cycle.
Why Internal
Dedicated to Your Business. Secure by Design
There is a reason we built the Solen AI Innovation Center as an internal team. Outside agencies rotate developers, share attention across many clients, and walk away when a project ends. That model does not build the kind of depth a mission-critical software business needs.
Our team stays. They build real knowledge of each company they work with, and that knowledge compounds across the entire portfolio over time.
A dedicated team, not a rotating one
The same people who start a project see it through. They understand your product, your customers, and what your team has built. No handoffs. No restarts.
Your data stays secure
Because the Solen AI Innovation Center is proprietary and in-house, your data never moves through third-party vendors or outside contractors. Your proprietary information stays within Solen.
Permanent capital means a long-term commitment
We hold these companies indefinitely and reinvest in them over time. The AI Innovation Center is one expression of that commitment. What makes your business stronger makes ours stronger.
Rafael Mazzeo
Senior Operating Partner
AI is a core part of our long-term strategy across the portfolio. The AI Innovation Center reflects our broader commitment to investing in our resilient software businesses so they remain relevant and competitive for decades to come.
Where We Work
Built in One of Brazil's Leading Technology Cities
The Solen AI Innovation Center is based in Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil. We chose Sao Carlos because of its established technology and research ecosystem and its access to highly skilled technical talent.
The city is home to leading institutions including the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), and has been officially designated Brazil's National Technology Capital. This gives us a strong foundation to develop the AI expertise our portfolio companies need, now and over the long term.
Case Studies
What the AI Innovation Center Looks Like in Practice
The Solen AI Innovation Center is active inside our portfolio today. Here are two examples of what that work looks like.
From The Portfolio
What the Teams Inside Our Companies Say
“Our approach to AI has been practical from the start. We’ve integrated it into research, documentation, and analysis to help our team complete work more consistently and spend time on the right activities, like creating the greatest value for our customers.”
Ernesta Gerstenlauer
General Manager
Track Star & Primate Technologies
“We are leveraging AI to rapidly create, refine, modify, and adapt the front end of a complex user interface. This AI-assisted approach has significantly accelerated development, enabling us to respond quickly to evolving requirements and bring new product capabilities to market much faster than current resources can support.”
Rich Steinbacher
VP Visualization Solutions
Primate Technologies
“In competitive markets, timing can be everything. When conditions shifted in our favor, we had a narrow window to move, and the Solen team helped us seize it. We brought a new product to customers at exactly the right moment, and that changed what was possible for us.”
Mitchell Patterson
Co-Founder & CTO
Primate Technologies
For Founders
The AI Innovation Center Comes with Every Partnership
Solen is a permanent capital partner. We acquire mission-critical software businesses and hold them indefinitely, reinvesting in them over the long term. The AI Innovation Center is part of that commitment.
When you partner with Solen, the AI Innovation Center comes with the partnership. From the first conversation, we think about where AI can help your product and your team grow.
We also use AI to support the partnership process. AI-assisted due diligence helps our team move faster and make well-informed decisions, which can shorten timelines and give you a clearer path to closing.
We earn trust by doing the work alongside your people, with your customers' needs at the center.
We tend to partner with companies that have:
- A loyal customer base in a niche, mission-critical market
- A founder who has built something durable and is beginning to think about what comes next
- A product with room to grow and a team with the expertise to take it there
- Recurring revenue between $2M and $30M
- A desire for a permanent home, not a short-term transition
Wondering if a Solen partnership is the right fit for where you are?
The Founder Readiness Assessment is a short self-guided tool that helps you think through where your business stands and what the path forward could look like.
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Join Our Team
Work with People Who Build for the Long Term
The Solen team is made up of operators and builders who take ownership, push beyond the obvious, and care about getting things right. We work across a portfolio of mission-critical software businesses, which means the problems are real, the stakes are meaningful, and the learning compounds.
Roles span operations, growth, product, and technology. We look for people who want to grow alongside the businesses they help build, and who find work more meaningful when it lasts.
Find Out What a Solen Partnership Looks Like
A first conversation with us is straightforward. We learn about your business, share how we work, and talk honestly about whether there is a fit. You will leave knowing exactly what a partnership with Solen involves and what the AI Innovation Center would mean for your team.