Insights & Ideas

Thinking on data, AI, and the future of asset management — from the team building the platform.

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Service as Software

Software as a Service is broken. Here’s what comes next.

SaaS sells you a tool. Nobody sells you the outcome. A structural argument for why the SaaS model fails asset managers — and what Service as Software replaces it with.

WHERE THE WEEK GOES 72% ADMIN BEFORE AUTOMATE backend feeds 75% SELLING AFTER REV.
Distribution & Sherpa

How AI helps distribution teams close more deals

15+ platform and registry feeds consolidated automatically — from days of manual reconciliation to under an hour. Here’s how backend automation unlocks 40% more client meetings, with no new headcount.

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AI & Sherpa

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Llama — and Sherpa: why asset managers need the right LLM for each task

Six major LLMs, six different strengths. Benchmark comparisons, honest assessments — and why Sherpa orchestrates the right model for every asset management task.

BREADTH DEPTH TRUST
Data Quality & AI

Why data quality is the first step to AI readiness for asset managers

60% of AI projects will be abandoned due to lack of AI-ready data. The firms that succeed with AI are never the ones that started with a model — they started with their data.

Data & Distribution

Unlocking the power of data in asset management distribution

79% of marketing leads never reach sales. How data centralisation and AI are closing the gap for asset managers — and why generic CRMs fall short.