The same climb, marked five times, for the five companies built and sold.
I've made the climb you're on, five times.
I built and sold five companies so far, the last a data and AI platform we grew past $300M, with a market making exit. I know the climb you're on because I've made it, and I know where it gets steep. Everest Partners is where I put all of it to work for you.
For data and AI services CEOs scaling $10M to $100M.
The record, in plain terms.
Adam Jorgensen is the founder of Everest Partners, a growth advisory firm in Palm Beach, Florida, for data and AI services CEOs scaling from $10M to $100M. He co-founded Pragmatic Works and sold it to 3Cloud in 2020, then ran 3Cloud's data and AI business as revenue grew more than 12x past $300M through eight acquisitions and the January 2026 sale to Cognizant. He is a former President of PASS, the 300,000-member global association of Microsoft data professionals, a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, and the author of nine books on the Microsoft data platform, including best sellers.
Adam Jorgensen, founder of Everest Partners, is a growth operator for data and AI services CEOs scaling $10M to $100M. He co-founded Pragmatic Works, sold it into 3Cloud, and ran the data and AI business through 12x growth and the 2026 sale to Cognizant.
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After five exits, I could have stopped. The reason I didn't is simple. I love watching a founder break through a ceiling that's held them for two years, and a leadership team start to operate at a level they didn't know they had.
I've sat in that seat. I know the weight of it: the quarter that won't close, the team that has to grow faster than they think they can, the calls only you can make.
I've also kept a good person in the wrong seat a quarter too long, run the layoff, and walked from a deal I wanted. I get back in it with founders who are there now. We build the engine together, and I coach the leaders who'll run it.
The reflex everyone's selling is to add more AI. On a broken operating system, that just scales the dysfunction. I fix the engine first, then AI compounds it.
I built the system across five climbs, the Summit OS and the Summit Scorecard, and it's what I bring into your firm. I take a small number of firms so the person leading the work is me, every week, until the goal you set is the goal you hit.
Every firm hits the same walls, at predictable revenue stages.
I place you by your goals and your revenue stage, then read the eight parts of the business against it: go-to-market, marketing, product, delivery, people, finance, AI, and strategy. Some of those you've already nailed. A few aren't built yet for the next camp, and those are the ones we work on together. The map shows you which is which, by name.
Camp sets the playbook. What unsticks a founder at $12M is the wrong move at $60M, so I match every call to where you actually are.
Where the playbook comes from.
I carried the P&L.
- 25 years of building businesses, and the last five building our data and AI platform to more than $300M: the P&L, sales, delivery, hiring, M&A, and strategy.
- Sourced, negotiated, and integrated eight acquisitions, the part most deals fumble.
- The platform sold to Cognizant at the start of 2026, an exit the sponsor calls one of its best. The math behind it is a conversation, not a webpage.
Trusted in the rooms you're in.
- Former President of PASS, the global association of Microsoft data professionals, 300,000+ members.
- 15-year Microsoft MVP and Regional Director.
- Hundreds of sold-out talks and keynotes.
- Author of nine books on the Microsoft data platform, including best sellers.
Five companies, five exits.
- Founded and sold five data and AI companies spanning consulting, software, and training.
- I've made the hard calls this work puts in front of you. Betting big on my team. Growing when things were uncertain. The layoff, the wrong hire. Walking from a deal I wanted.
- Created a global alumni network of leaders across data and AI hyperscalers, startups, and scale businesses.
Two you can look up: Pragmatic Works, co-founded and sold to 3Cloud in 2020. 3Cloud, sold to Cognizant in January 2026. The other three, and the enterprise-value math across all five, I'll walk you through on a call, deal by deal.
Here's what all of that means for your climb. The moves that built and sold those firms are the same moves I run inside yours, through the Summit OS and the Scorecard, so what worked for me becomes what works for your team.
Operators and investors across the data and AI world.
Ask the founders who've been in it with me.
They describe the work the same way. Someone in it with them who has made this exact climb before and knows where it gets steep.
"Adam came alongside me as a peer and a partner, coaching me through the process and guiding me past the points of doubt and indecision as we went through a complicated transaction. I won't do this again without him."Chris Kadel, former Founder & CEO, Polaris Solutions (acquired by 3Cloud, 2021)
"Adam and the Everest Team brought new levels of leadership and strategy to growing our AI business. The results have profoundly accelerated our growth and capability."Greg Pierce, COO, Trofeo, on working with Adam Jorgensen, Everest Partners.
A short list, on purpose.
I've coached over a hundred founders across my career. Now I run a maximum of four firms at a time. The founders I take on keep me close long after the plan is running.
Bring me the wall you're stuck on.
Thirty minutes. Bring the wall you're stuck on. I'll tell you if I've climbed it.
Talk to AdamPrefer email? Reach me at adam@everestpartners.co and I'll reply within one business day.