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IN THE NEWS: The Carling Group Launches AURA, the World’s First Hybrid AI-Human Board of Direction.

The Carling Group today announced the world’s first hybrid AI-human Board of Direction, and the launch of AURA (Accelerated Understanding, Results & Advantage), a proprietary intelligence system designed to give organisations a decisive edge in what the Group describes as the developing intelligence era.

Read about AURA's launch here

Global Vision, Intelligence Led.

The Carling Group is a private family investment and operating group focused on acquiring, scaling, and compounding high-quality businesses globally.

We partner with founders, management teams, and capital providers to build institutional-grade businesses designed for long-term value creation and world-class exits. Our approach is grounded in disciplined governance, intelligence-led decision-making, and execution that holds under pressure and scale.

At the core of our operating model is AURA (Accelerated Understanding, Results & Advantage),  our proprietary intelligence system that underpins how we govern, make decisions, and scale. By combining decades of human judgement with machine-level precision, AURA enables clarity, control, and consistency in increasingly complex environments.

Clarity, control, and the ability to govern complexity are our advantage. That belief underpins everything we do.

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Built for Scale. Designed for Reality.

The Carling Group has evolved from an entrepreneurial operating business into an intelligence-powered global platform.

As the Group scaled, we experienced first-hand the limitations of traditional operating and board structures: slow information flow, fragmented accountability, leadership fatigue, and governance that struggled to keep pace with growth. Too often, formality replaced function, and risk surfaced only after value had already leaked.

Rather than accept these constraints, we redesigned how we operate.

Today, The Carling Group runs as a coordinated system, with governance, intelligence, and execution engineered to scale together.

This is not conventional private capital.
It is a precision operating platform, underpinned by AURA, that institutionalises clarity, enforces discipline, and enables the Group to govern complexity at scale.

Discover more about AURA - Our intelligence system

The Carling Group is a global investment and operating organisation headquartered in Dubai. We acquire and scale high-quality businesses using an intelligence-led operating model designed for clarity, control, and long-term value creation.

Our approach is underpinned by AURA, our proprietary intelligence system that combines human judgement with machine precision to accelerate understanding and deliver durable advantage at scale.