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We help mid-market and large Private Capital platforms put Anthropic’s Claude to work across the firm. From the team behind Asset Class, the AI platform for private capital.

Focused By Design

One model family, deeply understood, deployed where it creates measurable commercial return.

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Focused By Design

One model family, deeply understood, deployed where it creates measurable commercial return.

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Focused By Design

One model family, deeply understood, deployed where it creates measurable commercial return.

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We help general partners move from AI curiosity with Claude to governed, production capability their LPs and regulators can accept. 

We help general partners move from AI curiosity with Claude to governed, production capability their LPs and regulators can accept. 

We help general partners move from AI curiosity with Claude to governed, production capability their LPs and regulators can accept. 

Specialists, not generalists

Asset Class Labs is the advisory division of Asset Class. For seven years we have built technology for private capital. Today we help firms apply Anthropic’s Claude to the work their teams actually do.

We are not a neutral integrator. We have made a deliberate bet on Claude and put it into production through Athena, our own platform. That focus means our advice is specific, tested and grounded in delivery, rather than a survey of the market.

Sharpen allocator targeting, DDQ response, and raise pipeline intelligence.

Faster LP response, cleaner reporting, and defensible investor communications.

Govern AI properly, with controls that satisfy the SEC and your LPs.

Sharpen allocator targeting, DDQ response, and raise pipeline intelligence.

Faster LP response, cleaner reporting, and defensible investor communications.

Govern AI properly, with controls that satisfy the SEC and your LPs.

Sharpen allocator targeting, DDQ response, and raise pipeline intelligence.

Tailored reporting that reveals new opportunities for your practice.

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Faster LP response, cleaner reporting, and defensible investor communications.

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Development reports that reveal chances in your practice.

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Maximum measure of downside risk over a given time period.

Govern AI properly, with controls that satisfy the SEC and your LPs.

Confidence, discipline, and commercial precision

AI Enablement for every function of the firm, shaped by how private capital actually operates. 

AI Enablement for every function of the firm, shaped by how private capital actually operates. 

AI Enablement for every function of the firm, shaped by how private capital actually operates. 

Fundraising & Capital Formation

Sharpen allocator targeting, DDQ response, and raise pipeline intelligence.

Fundraising & Capital Formation

Sharpen allocator targeting, DDQ response, and raise pipeline intelligence.

Business Development & Origination

Strengthen sourcing, screening, and thesis-led research at greater scale.

Business Development & Origination

Strengthen sourcing, screening, and thesis-led research at greater scale.

Investor Relations

Faster LP response, cleaner reporting, and defensible investor communications.

Investor Relations

Faster LP response, cleaner reporting, and defensible investor communications.

Finance & Fund Operations

Reduce manual load across capital calls, allocations, and reporting.

Finance & Fund Operations

Reduce manual load across capital calls, allocations, and reporting.

GP & Executive Operations

Give the executive committee faster, better-evidenced firm-wide insight.

GP & Executive Operations

Give the executive committee faster, better-evidenced firm-wide insight.

Compliance & Risk

Govern AI properly, with controls that satisfy the SEC and your LPs.

Compliance & Risk

Govern AI properly, with controls that satisfy the SEC and your LPs.

We work with established managers and multi-fund platforms, firms with real operational complexity, a varied LP base, and no appetite for AI experiments that cannot be governed.

Driven by outcomes your investment committee can measure

From design to operating capability, we help firms make AI count. 

From design to operating capability, we help firms make AI count. 

From design to operating capability, we help firms make AI count. 

Client Satisfaction

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Built on trust, responsiveness, and lasting partnerships.

Client Satisfaction

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Built on trust, responsiveness, and lasting partnerships.

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Helping teams improve reporting and decision-making workflows.

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Helping teams improve reporting and decision-making workflows.

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Long-term client relationships shaped by consistent results.

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Long-term client relationships shaped by consistent results.

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Supporting your firm as you embed AI across all functions

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Supporting your firm as you embed AI across all functions

Results vary by client

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From design to operating capability, we help firms make AI count.

We help general partners navigate AI with practical insight, commercial judgment, and a clear focus on long-term performance, grounded in sector understanding, technical depth, and disciplined execution.

Placing responsible AI capability in your teams hands

AI adoption, shaped by the operational reality of Private Capital.

Designed and delivered by Private Capital practitioners

Cost and risk mapped

Identify where AI genuinely removes cost and where it quietly introduces risk into your operating model.

Cost and risk mapped

Identify where AI genuinely removes cost and where it quietly introduces risk into your operating model.

Cost and risk mapped

Identify where AI genuinely removes cost and where it quietly introduces risk into your operating model.

One shared view

Bring your entire team onto a shared view of what AI will and will not do.

One shared view

Bring your entire team onto a shared view of what AI will and will not do.

One shared view

Bring your entire team onto a shared view of what AI will and will not do.

From pilot to production

From pilot to production, we help your team adopt the tools and retire the manual work behind them.

From pilot to production

From pilot to production, we help your team adopt the tools and retire the manual work behind them.

From pilot to production

From pilot to production, we help your team adopt the tools and retire the manual work behind them.

Clarity you can act on

Tailored advisory shaped around your firm’s goals and operating reality.

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Client retention driven by long partnerships and growth results.

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Client retention driven by long partnerships and growth results.

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Projects delivered with client Satisfaction built on true trust.

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Projects delivered with client Satisfaction built on true trust.

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AI clarity that helps general partners make confident decisions, with focused insight and a clear view of commercial return.

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Expertise grounded in private capital

The team behind Asset Class and Athena, now advising general partners directly. 

The team behind Asset Class and Athena, now advising general partners directly. 

The team behind Asset Class and Athena, now advising general partners directly. 

Ferdinand Roberts

Founder & Managing Partner

Cillian Ryan

COO, Delivery & Operations

Keith Peters

Chief Architect

Jason Blake

Director, Client Adoption

Our standards show in how we work: rigorous discovery, clear documentation, and recommendations we are prepared to defend in front of your investment committee.

Ferdinand Roberts

Founder & Managing Partner

Cillian Ryan

COO, Delivery & Operations

Keith Peters

Chief Architect

Jason Blake

Director, Client Adoption

Our standards show in how we work: rigorous discovery, clear documentation, and recommendations we are prepared to defend in front of your investment committee.

Work across private capital

Anonymized scenarios from our work across private capital. 

Anonymized scenarios from our work across private capital. 

Anonymized scenarios from our work across private capital. 

Private Equity

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Compressing the quarterly reporting cycle at a multi-fund manager

How an IR team used Claude to draft and check LP reporting packs, cutting cycle time while tightening the review trail.

Private Equity

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Compressing the quarterly reporting cycle at a multi-fund manager

How an IR team used Claude to draft and check LP reporting packs, cutting cycle time while tightening the review trail.

Commercial Real Estate

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Accelerating asset screening across a national CRE platform

How document extraction and market synthesis reduced first-pass screening from several weeks to a few days.

Commercial Real Estate

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Accelerating asset screening across a national CRE platform

How document extraction and market synthesis reduced first-pass screening from several weeks to a few days.

Venture Capital

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Widening coverage for a growth-stage venture team

How thesis-led signal monitoring helped a lean investment team track a far larger founder universe.

Venture Capital

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Widening coverage for a growth-stage venture team

How thesis-led signal monitoring helped a lean investment team track a far larger founder universe.

Private Equity

A solitary tree on a grassy hill with a green, nature-themed background.
Compressing the quarterly reporting cycle at a multi-fund manager

How an IR team used Claude to draft and check LP reporting packs, cutting cycle time while tightening the review trail.

Commercial Real Estate

Tiny green seedling growing from moss on a dark stone.
Accelerating asset screening across a national CRE platform

How document extraction and market synthesis reduced first-pass screening from several weeks to a few days.

Venture Capital

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Widening coverage for a growth-stage venture team

How thesis-led signal monitoring helped a lean investment team track a far larger founder universe.

Family Office

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Replacing scattered tools with a governed AI roadmap

How a single family office moved from uncoordinated adoption to prioritized, controlled investment.

We believe advisory should reflect precision and attention to every detail, in each recommendation and every outcome.

Why we build on Anthropic

Four reasons we build on Anthropic's Claude. 

Four reasons we build on Anthropic's Claude. 

Four reasons we build on Anthropic's Claude. 

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Built for regulated work

Claude's safety and evaluation posture suits an industry where a wrong answer has consequences.

Safety posture built for regulated work

Evaluation discipline for high-stakes answers

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Built for regulated work

Claude's safety and evaluation posture suits an industry where a wrong answer has consequences.

Safety posture built for regulated work

Evaluation discipline for high-stakes answers

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Built for regulated work

Claude's safety and evaluation posture suits an industry where a wrong answer has consequences.

Safety posture built for regulated work

Evaluation discipline for high-stakes answers

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Strong document reasoning

LPAs, side letters, subscription packs and diligence files are Claude's natural territory.

LPAs side letters and subscription packs

Deal due diligence files read & extracted at scale

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Strong document reasoning

LPAs, side letters, subscription packs and diligence files are Claude's natural territory.

LPAs side letters and subscription packs

Deal due diligence files read & extracted at scale

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Strong document reasoning

LPAs, side letters, subscription packs and diligence files are Claude's natural territory.

LPAs side letters and subscription packs

Deal due diligence files read & extracted at scale

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Connects to your systems

Model Context Protocol lets Claude work against your CRM, fund and document systems under permission.

Model Context Protocol integration

CRM fund and document systems

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Connects to your systems

Model Context Protocol lets Claude work against your CRM, fund and document systems under permission.

Model Context Protocol integration

CRM fund and document systems

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Connects to your systems

Model Context Protocol lets Claude work against your CRM, fund and document systems under permission.

Model Context Protocol integration

CRM fund and document systems

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Proven in production

Athena, our AI platform for private capital, runs on Claude in production today.

Athena runs on Claude today

Deployed with live fund managers

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Proven in production

Athena, our AI platform for private capital, runs on Claude in production today.

Athena runs on Claude today

Deployed with live fund managers

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Proven in production

Athena, our AI platform for private capital, runs on Claude in production today.

Athena runs on Claude today

Deployed with live fund managers

  • SUPPORTING GENERAL PARTNERS ACROSS PRIVATE CAPITAL

Help & FAQs

Questions? We have answers for you

Help & FAQs

Common questions about our services, our process, and what it is like to work with us.

Still have questions?

What types of firms do you work with?

We work with general partners at mid-market and large private capital platforms across private equity, venture capital, commercial real estate, family offices and wealth management. We do not typically work with emerging managers raising a first or second fund.

Are you independent of software vendors?

Why Claude rather than another model?

Do we need clean data before we start?

How do you handle SEC and LP scrutiny?

How do we get started?

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We identify where AI removes cost and where it quietly adds risk.

Every engagement begins with a scoping conversation. If a smaller package is the right starting point, we will say so.

Testimonials

Real feedback from clients who have worked with us to strengthen performance, planning, and financial confidence.

Working with Pactum brought a new level of clarity to our financial planning. Their skilled team helped us improve reporting, strengthen forecasting, and make more confident decisions across the business we dream of.

Daniel Mercer

Founder, Prostech

Testimonials

Real feedback from clients who have worked with us to strengthen performance, planning, and financial confidence.

Working with Pactum brought a new level of clarity to our financial planning. Their skilled team helped us improve reporting, strengthen forecasting, and make more confident decisions across the business we dream of.

Daniel Mercer

Founder, Prostech

Testimonials

Real feedback from clients who have worked with us to strengthen performance, planning, and financial confidence.

Working with Pactum brought a new level of clarity to our financial planning. Their skilled team helped us improve reporting, strengthen forecasting, and make more confident decisions across the business we dream of.

Daniel Mercer

Founder, Prostech

The firms we serve

Across private equity, real estate, venture and wealth management

The firms we serve

2026

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Griffin Capital

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Griffin Capital

2025

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Angel Oak

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Angel Oak

2024

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The True Life Companies

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The True Life Companies

2023

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Explorer Investments

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Explorer Investments

2022

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Fidus Capital

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Fidus Capital

2021

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Brookwood

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Brookwood

2020

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Borgman Capital

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Borgman Capital

2020

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Partners Wealth Group

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Partners Wealth Group

Asset Class works with private capital firms across private equity, real estate, venture and wealth management.

Considered counsel, commercial strength

Start building a clearer AI direction

We provide trusted guidance, practical insight and robust deployment to help your firm move forward with confidence and build lasting operational advantage.

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