Founder note
Open beats clever.
Most platforms in our industry sell themselves on cleverness. The cleverest stack rarely wins. The most open one usually does.
Insights · finnerve
Field notes from operators —
Field notes from operators —
less news, more signal.
Long-form essays from our analysts, integration engineers and fund operators. Most of what we publish here started as a memo we needed for a client and decided to share.
- All6
- Market analysis2
- Founder note1
- Compliance1
- AI Lab1
- Open innovation1
— All notes
The full archive — organised by date.
Anything that survived the first three drafts. Sorted by recency.
Market analysis
The Ameris migration: lessons for mid-size asset managers.
We migrated Ameris off a legacy PMS onto BRITech in 90 days, with reconcilable history end-to-end. Here's the runbook — and the three things we'd do differently.
Compliance · Chile
UAF N°62 in practice — the implementation we wish someone had handed us.
We've taken three asset managers through a UAF inspection on the back of N°62. None of them got a finding. Here are the controls that actually mattered.
AI Lab · Build log
Building a regulatory document classifier with Claude in 9 days.
Nine days from kickoff to production triage agent. Here's the eval harness that made it possible — and the three things that broke.
Open innovation
Why we open-sourced our LatAm regulatory data ontology.
Three years of regulatory mappings, a single JSON-Schema, and a CC-licensed reference implementation. Here's why we gave it away.
Operator to operator
Got a problem worth — writing up?
Most of what we publish started as a client memo. If you've got an operating problem worth thinking through, the easiest way to make progress on it is to talk it out with someone who's seen it before.