SystemPrivate Credit & Direct Lending

Investor Reporting Automation

Investor reporting automation for private credit — every LP question answered from the books, the quarterly letter written beside it

Investor questions answered in a day, every figure traced to the books.

See one case, screen by screen ↓
demo3:40minto draft all 14 of an investor's questions — 38 figures, every one cited to the books
demo212statementspast statements to investors, compared with Kestrel Bay's draft answers before they go out
target1dayfrom an investor's question to an approved, sourced answer
target100%of figures cited to the books and checked against past answers
In short

What is Investor Reporting Automation?

Software that drafts a fund's answers to investors and its quarterly report from the fund's own books. Investor Reporting Automation drafts every LP reply under the message with a source on each figure, holds it to that investor's side letter, checks it against everything the fund has already said, and drafts the quarterly report in the ILPA layout. Investor relations approves what goes out.

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The problem

Why LP questions take days — and why the answers drift

Investors want more, sooner. Between quarterly reports they send questionnaires, DDQs and ad-hoc emails about non-accruals, payment-in-kind interest and marks — often with a board or risk committee date attached. Investor relations answers each one by hand from the administrator's books, the valuation committee minutes, last quarter's letter and an answer library that is only as current as the last person who updated it.

So answers are slow, and they drift. When a loan goes on non-accrual or moves to PIK by amendment, the old library answer keeps circulating, and one investor hears something another does not. Every answer also has to respect that investor's side letter — its own fee rate, its MFN tier, the extra reporting it was granted and nothing it was not. Checking all of that by hand is the job. In the sample fund, last quarter's report went out on day 58 of 60.

typical500–800hoursa quarter on investor reporting at a mid-market fund
demo9business daysmedian time to answer an investor by hand, Q1 2026, in the working solution's sample fund
typical92%of LPs name operational risk and transparency as their top concerns
Where an investor request's business days goestimated
By hand9 days
With the solution1 days
  • Splitting the questions and finding past answers1.5 → 0.1 d
  • Finding each figure in the books, minutes and memos3 → 0.2 d
  • Writing the answers2 → 0.2 d
  • Checking past statements and the side letter1.5 → 0.2 d
  • Owner input, approval and sending1 → 0.3 d

Estimated split for a multi-question LP request, by hand and with the solution, in business days.

How it works

How a request moves

Six specialist agents draft every investor reply and the quarterly letter from the books, holding each reply to that investor's side letter; investor relations approves.

What comes in
Questions, books and side letters inInvestor inbox · LP questions, ILPA requests, questionnaires, books, side letters
Agents at work
Request readersplit and match
Then
Books reader
Answer drafter
Report drafter
Then
Consistency checker
Disclosure screenheld to the side letter
A person decides
Head of Investor Relationsapproves and sends
What comes out
Cited replies
Q3 letter in ILPA layout
Fact register
One case, step by step

One Monday in the Q3 close, from inbox to cleared

Day 12 of the Q3 close at Tamberlane Senior Lending Fund III — 47 investors, $1,396.4M of NAV. Kestrel Bay has sent 14 questions for its 20 October board. Here is the day, screen by screen, in the working solution.

  1. 01Monday, 07:52

    The inbox is the work — with the letter writing itself beside it

    Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations

    Elena opens her investor inbox: 7 open, 3 due today. Kestrel Bay's 14 questions are due at 17:00, with the investor's side-letter terms shown above the email — 1.00% fee size break, MFN tier A, the ILPA template every quarter. On the right, the Q3 letter to investors is drafting itself from the books — 5 of 6 sections done, every figure linked to its source.

  2. 0208:14

    A software question arrives — and its reply drafts underneath

    Grace Whitfield · Pemberly Mutual Insurance

    Grace asks, for her risk committee on Thursday, what Fund III's exposure to software is and whether any of it pays in kind. The reply lands below her email: 12 loans to software borrowers, $326.8M at fair value — 23.4% of NAV, with a chip to the Q3 portfolio schedule, p.4. Three pay part of their interest in kind; all 12 are first lien and on accrual.

    Side letter §5.1 — quarterly look-through holdings with NAIC designations — is marked “Applied”, and the file is attached.

  3. 03One click

    Draft as if for another investor — and see what changes

    Disclosure screen

    Elena switches the same reply to Ostrander, a family office with no side letter. The look-through sentence drops out and joins the month-end marks as a hatched “Left out” block, each with the reason. Nothing in a Left out block is ever sent.

    “Left out · Loan-level look-through with NAIC designations — Not in Ostrander’s side letter.”

  4. 0408:17

    Approved and sent, three minutes after it arrived

    Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations

    Back on the Pemberly version, Elena approves and sends. The run log under the reply shows each agent's step — the request read, the figures found, the consistency check against the Q2 schedule, the side letter applied. The reply is logged in Pemberly's answered-request log with its 3 sources.

  5. 05Draft the 14 answers

    Kestrel Bay's 14 questions, drafted in 3 min 40 s

    The agents

    The request reader splits the email into 14 questions — 11 asked before by other investors, 3 new. The books reader pulls the facts at 30 September and ties them to NAV of $1,396.4M. The answer drafter writes 14 answers with 38 figures, each cited; the consistency checker compares 212 past statements; the disclosure screen applies Kestrel Bay's side letter.

  6. 06Flagged

    The answer is right — but the fund said otherwise on 3 September

    Consistency checker

    Question 1 is drafted correctly: two loans on non-accrual, Ridgeline Home Health from 31 August and Calder Packaging from 30 September — $35.8M at cost, $24.2M at fair value (1.6%). But the checker finds that Harrowgate University Endowment was told on 3 September that the fund had no loans on non-accrual, three days after Ridgeline went on non-accrual.

    “A correction is needed so both investors hold the same fact.”

  7. 07No source, no figure

    A question the books cannot answer goes to its owner

    Ben Castellano · Portfolio Manager

    Question 9 asks about software loans underwritten on recurring revenue. No approved source holds that subset, so the answer drafter does not estimate it — it asks Ben. He answers from his phone: four loans, $118.4M at fair value, 7.8% of the portfolio. His answer becomes an approved source.

    The answer drafter never states a figure that is not in an approved source.

  8. 08Cleared

    A correction to Harrowgate, cleared by compliance

    Ruth Adeyemi · Chief Compliance Officer

    From the flag, Elena drafts a correction to Simon Feld at Harrowgate: the 3 September statement was not correct on that date, and at 30 September two loans are on non-accrual — $24.2M at fair value, 1.6% of the portfolio. Ruth clears it, and it goes out with today's answers.

  9. 09On the record

    One fact, every investor

    Consistency checker

    The fact register shows every statement ever made about non-accruals — the Q2 letter, library answer A-114, the Harrowgate email, the Eastlake call notes, the Kestrel Bay draft — each against the books. A-114 is retired, stale since 31 August, so it cannot be reused. The Harrowgate statement stays on the record, marked as contradicting the books.

  10. 10Day 12 of 60

    The Q3 report, tied out before the final books land

    David Okafor · Fund CFO

    The same books feed the quarterly report: 5 of 8 sections drafted, 30 of 30 tie-outs passing, 1,284 figures each linked to the books. Two sections wait on the administrator's final trial balance (15 Oct) and the valuation letter (16 Oct), one on Ben's commentary. Q2 went out on day 58; Q3 is planned for day 44, with David's sign-off on 30 October.

Who it’s for

Built for everyone who answers to your investors.

The same Monday, seen by the four people who carry it — what their quarter looked like, and what it looks like now.

EM
Elena MarshHead of Investor Relations
Approves and sends answers
Before
Finds every answer in the books by hand, then checks it against what the team said last time — and against each investor's side letter.
Now
Opens each message with its reply already drafted, sourced and screened; decides, edits and sends.
DO
David OkaforFund CFO
Signs report figures
Before
Chases figures re-keyed from the administrator's files into letters and answers he has to stand behind.
Now
Sees every figure tied to the books — 30 of 30 tie-outs — and signs a report whose numbers already match the answers sent.
BC
Ben CastellanoPortfolio Manager, Fund III
Owner of credit commentary
Before
Answers the same borrower questions again for each investor who asks.
Now
Is asked only what no approved source holds; his answer becomes a source for the next investor.
RA
Ruth AdeyemiChief Compliance Officer
Clears corrections and material items
Before
Learns that two investors heard two different facts after the fact.
Now
Gets the contradiction flagged with the statements side by side and a correction drafted to clear.
Built on the engine

6 agents. Each with one job, and hard limits.

Six specialist agents draft every investor reply and the quarterly letter from the books, holding each reply to that investor's side letter; investor relations approves.

Books reader

Reads the administrator's trial balance, capital accounts and schedule of investments, and ties them to NAV.

  • Never changes a booked figure
  • Marks preliminary figures as preliminary
  • Flags any figure that does not tie
Request reader

Splits an email, questionnaire or DDQ into single questions, keeping the investor's wording, and matches each to questions answered before. It notes deadlines such as board meetings and side-letter dates.

  • Never answers a question itself
  • Keeps each question in the investor's own wording
Answer drafter

Drafts each answer from approved sources in the fund's voice, with a citation and the date it is true at on every figure.

  • Never states a figure without an approved source — routes it to its owner
  • Never names another investor
  • Marks figures not yet in a sent report as preliminary
Consistency checker

Compares every draft with the books and with every statement already made to any investor — letters, answers, call notes and library answers.

  • Never sends or retracts anything
  • Proposes the correction; compliance clears it
Report drafter

Drafts the quarterly report sections in the ILPA Reporting Template 2.0 layout and the letter's factual paragraphs, and redrafts when a source changes.

  • Never writes credit commentary the portfolio manager has not given
  • Never publishes
Disclosure screen

Holds every reply to the asking investor's side letter — its own fee rate, its MFN tier, extra reporting only where granted, a consultant's lowest common entitlement — and shows investor relations what was left out and why.

  • Never discloses what an investor is not entitled to
  • Never names another investor
  • Never clears an answer — compliance does
Head of Investor Relations

Approves answers; CFO signs figures; compliance clears corrections. The agents propose; a named person decides.

Ask in plain words

Ask about any fund fact, in plain words

Investor relations can ask about any fund fact, request or report section — or say what to draft. Every answer is cited to an approved source.

How many loans are on non-accrual, and since when?

Two, at 30 September: Ridgeline Home Health from 31 August and Calder Packaging from 30 September. Together $35.8M at cost and $24.2M at fair value — 1.6% of the portfolio.

What have we told investors about non-accruals since June?

Five statements: the Q2 letter on 14 Aug (none at 30 June — correct); library answer A-114 on 22 Jul, reused six times (stale from 31 Aug); Harrowgate on 3 Sep (none — wrong); the Eastlake call on 21 Sep (Ridgeline — correct); the Kestrel Bay draft on 12 Oct (two loans — correct). Only Harrowgate holds a wrong fact.

Draft a correction to Harrowgate and send it to Ruth to clear

Drafted. It tells Simon Feld that the 3 September answer was wrong on its date — Ridgeline Home Health had gone on non-accrual on 31 August — and gives the 30 September position: two loans, $24.2M at fair value, 1.6%. It is with Ruth Adeyemi to clear, and library answer A-114 is retired so it cannot be reused.

What is still open on the Q3 report?

Day 12 of 60; 5 of 8 sections are drafted and all 30 tie-outs pass. Open: the letter waits on Ben's commentary (Wed 14 Oct), the financial statements on the administrator's final trial balance (Thu 15 Oct), and valuation on the independent valuation letter (Fri 16 Oct). On that path the report goes out Fri 13 Nov, day 44.

Every screen

The working solution, as it ships.

13 screens from the working solution, on its sample data. Pick one to see it large.

The investor inboxEvery investor message tagged and due, the side-letter terms above it, and the Q3 letter to investors drafting itself beside it.
A reply, drafted under the questionPemberly Mutual's software question answered at 23.4% of NAV, a source chip on every figure, its side letter §5.1 applied.
Draft as if for another investorThe same reply for Ostrander: the look-through and month-end marks left out, each shown with the reason.
Approved and sentThe run log under the reply, and the answer logged in the investor's answered-request log with its sources.
A request, draftedKestrel Bay's 14 questions with the run log: split, sourced, checked against 212 past statements and screened in 3 min 40 s.
Questions and drafted answersEach answer with its numbered sources and status — and a consistency flag where the fund once said otherwise.
Owner questionsA figure no approved source holds goes to the portfolio manager; his answer becomes a source.
A correction, clearedThe correction to Harrowgate, drafted from the books and cleared by the Chief Compliance Officer.
The fact registerWhat the fund has told investors about each fact, in every letter, answer and call, against the books.
Side lettersEach investor's commitment, fee rate, MFN tier and extra reporting rights — and how many replies each has shaped.
The Q3 reportThe 60-day clock, sections with owners and tie-outs, and the NAV roll-forward from the administrator's books.
ILPA Reporting Template 2.0Management fee gross to net, partnership expenses, credit facility costs and carried interest — every line mapped to the ledger.
Your fund's rulesThe answer clock, the report target, urgent requests and the rules on sources, consistency and look-back.
Governance

Built for fair disclosure: sourced, screened, approved, on the record.

Every figure cites its sourceEach figure in a reply or the letter carries a chip that opens its source at the passage — the schedule of investments, the valuation committee minutes, an amendment memo — with the date it is true at.
Approved sources onlyAnswers come only from 11 approved sources, each with an owner and a version. A figure with no source goes to its owner, never guessed; a new source needs the CFO or the CCO to approve it.
Held to each side letterEvery reply uses the investor's own fee rate, stays inside its MFN tier and carries extra reporting only where granted. What is left out is shown to investor relations with the clause that decided it — never sent.
Named people decideThe Head of Investor Relations approves every answer before it leaves; the Fund CFO signs every figure in the quarterly report; the Chief Compliance Officer clears corrections and material items.
One fact, every investorThe fact register keeps every statement to every investor. Same fund, same date, same answer — and when a fact changes, stale library answers are retired.
Versioned and on the trailEach agent step is shown in the run log under the reply, every sent answer is logged against the investor, and changes to the rules are versioned and on the audit trail.
Configuration

Your fund's rules, not ours

The rules every answer and every report is held to are settings — changed by the people who own them.

SettingDefaultChoose from
Answer clock1 daySet in days, from request to approved answer
Quarterly report targetDay 45Day 30 · Day 45 · Day 60
Urgent requests — board deadlines inside 10 days answered the same dayOnOn · Off
Answers come only from approved sourcesAlways onA figure with no source goes to its owner
One fact, every investorOnOn · Off
Look back for past statements4 quarters4 quarters · 8 quarters · Since inception
Figures not yet in a sent reportMarked preliminaryMarked preliminary · Held until the report is signed
Never answeredBlockedOther investors' names, commitments and side letters · deals not yet closed or announced — both blocked
Connections

Works with the books and files you already keep

Your fund administrator's bookstrial balance, capital accounts, schedule of investments
Valuation committee minutesthe quarter's marks and the independent valuation letter
Investor email and portalLP questions, questionnaires, DDQs and ILPA requests
Side letters and the MFN compendiumfee rates, MFN tiers and reporting rights
Past letters, answers and policiessent reports, the answer library, call notes, valuation policy
ILPA Reporting Template 2.0fees, expenses, facility costs and carry, exported to the ILPA workbook
What it changes

The difference, in numbers.

Every figure is labelled: a target the solution is built to, an estimate, a typical published result, or a proven one.

target
1day
from an investor's question to an approved, sourced answer
By hand≈ 9 days
With agents≈ 1 day
target
100%
of figures cited to the books and checked against past answers
38 of 38 figures
in one investor's answers
typical
500–800hours
a quarter on investor reporting at a mid-market fund today
TodayWith agents

“demo” = seen in the working solution, on its sample fund data · “target” = the design goal, measured in the live solution · “estimated” = our estimate · “typical” = published figures (V7 Labs, LP reporting in private equity — 500–800 hours a quarter; CSC, Private Credit 2025 — 92% of LPs). ILPA Reporting Template 2.0 (2025; applies from Q1 2026). People, funds, investors and borrowers named on this page are fictional — characters and sample data in the working solution.

Questions

What investor relations teams ask us.

What is investor reporting automation?

Software that drafts a fund's answers to investors and its quarterly report from the fund's own books. Investor Reporting Automation drafts every LP reply under the message with a source on each figure, holds it to that investor's side letter, checks it against everything the fund has already said, and drafts the quarterly report in the ILPA layout. Investor relations approves what goes out.

How does it answer LP questionnaires and DDQs?

The request reader splits a questionnaire, DDQ or email into single questions and matches each to questions answered before. The answer drafter writes each answer from approved sources — the administrator's books, valuation minutes, sent letters, the answer library and policies — with a citation on every figure. A question no approved source can answer goes to its owner.

Does it respect side letters and MFN terms?

Yes. The disclosure screen uses the investor's own fee rate, keeps MFN answers inside its tier, adds extra reporting only where a side letter grants it, and gives a consultant only what all its clients may have. Anything removed is shown to investor relations with the clause that decided it, and never sent.

How does it stop us telling two investors different things?

The consistency checker compares every draft with the books and with every past statement to any investor over the look-back period. It flags a contradiction or a stale answer and proposes a correction; the Chief Compliance Officer clears it, and stale library answers are retired.

Does it support the ILPA Reporting Template 2.0?

The report drafter drafts the quarterly report in the ILPA Reporting Template 2.0 layout, granular method: management fee gross to net with offsets, partnership expenses, credit facility costs and carried interest, each line mapped to its ledger account and exportable to the ILPA workbook.

Do people stay in control of what investors receive?

Yes. The agents draft and check; they never send, retract or invent a figure. The Head of Investor Relations approves every answer, the Fund CFO signs every figure in the quarterly report, and the Chief Compliance Officer clears corrections and material items.

Which systems does it work with?

Your fund administrator's books, valuation committee minutes, investor email and portal, side letters and the MFN compendium, past letters and the answer library, and the ILPA template. It reads only from sources you approve.

How long does it take to go live?

The Agentic Solution Engine builds and deploys it from your requirements and documents — your books, side letters, past letters and answer library — and it goes live once every quality gate has passed. We will walk you through it on your own past investor requests first.

See it on
your investor questions.

We’ll run Investor Reporting Automation on a sample of your own past LP requests and last quarter's books.