- Before
- Owns 1,540 LP relationships across five private funds and approves the same kind of answer again and again, without seeing where each figure came from.
- Now
- Starts from what needs her, reads the reply in both languages with every figure cited, and approves an answer once as a template instead of forty times.
One LP's question in German, answered with investor relations AI
Monday, October 19, 2026. At 02:12 ET — 08:12 in Bern — Dr. Beat Hofstetter, Head of Private Markets at Pensionskasse Aaretal, a Swiss pension fund with a EUR 40,000,000 commitment to Quillfield European Infrastructure Fund IV SCSp, emails Quillfield Capital in German. Here is what happens next, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 0109:05 ET
642 questions since midnight, and what needs her
Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations, Private MarketsElena's day opens on four numbers: 418 answered automatically, from approved templates only; 23 waiting for her; 9 complaints routed, clocks started, to Grace Whitfield; 6 held for safety. Below them, a ranked “Needs you” list — Pensionskasse Aaretal's Q3 distribution and tax-pack question first, due 17:00 — and beside it a conversation with the agents, with three questions ready to ask: What changed overnight? Anything risky? What went out automatically?
“Overnight we read 642 questions in 11 languages. 418 went out from approved templates; 23 need an IR manager.”
- 02One click
The question in German, with the English beside it
Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations, Private MarketsStart with Pensionskasse Aaretal opens question Q-48207. The investor's email sits in the original German with the agents' English beside it: how much was the third-quarter distribution, and when will the 2026 tax pack arrive? Above it, the entitlement line says why this sender may see this account and exactly what the agents were allowed to read. On the right, the four sources the reply uses, the distribution notice open on its page.
“Entitled. Dr. Beat Hofstetter is an authorized contact for LP-IV-0187 (CRM, signatory list v7, verified Mar 4, 2026). The agents read only: account LP-IV-0187 · QEIF IV fund documents · side letter SL-IV-0187.”
- 037.1 seconds, overnight
How the agents answered, step by step
Seven agents, one after anotherThe Intake & language agent read Swiss German and split two questions. The Entitlement agent checked the CRM and signatory list v7 and set the read scope. The Investor records agent read distribution notice DN-IV-2026-Q3-0187 — EUR 1,284,500 paid September 30 — and the Q3 capital account: income 1,031,200 plus return of capital 253,300. The Fund documents agent found LPA §8.3 and side letter §4.1, which asks for German; no clause moves the tax date. No single approved template covers both questions, so the Reply drafting agent wrote it in German, in Swiss format, with the English beside it.
Conduct & complaints agent: “No complaint, no instruction, no bank details.”
- 04Every figure
Click a citation, see the clause on its page
Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations, Private MarketsEvery figure in the reply carries a numbered citation, the same number in the German and the English. Elena clicks 3 beside “15. März 2027” and the Limited Partnership Agreement opens on the right at page 61 of 212, with section 8.3 Tax Information highlighted: tax information to each Limited Partner “no later than March 15 of each year”. Citation 1 opens the distribution notice, 2 the capital account statement, 4 the side letter in German.
- 05Before anyone reads it
Back-translated, recomputed and compared with other LPs
Checking agentThe Checking agent had a second model re-translate the German into English: 0 changes of meaning. It recomputed all three figures (1,031,200 + 253,300 = 1,284,500), checked the number format — EUR 1'284'500 in Swiss German, EUR 1,284,500 in English — read all 14 clauses of the side letter, and confirmed the same tax date was given to all 186 QEIF IV LPs, so no LP was told an earlier date. Then it routed the reply to a person.
“Route: a person approves — confidence 0.96 is above 0.92, but no single approved template covers both questions.”
- 06Before she signs
She asks the agents before she signs
Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations, Private MarketsUnder the reply, Elena asks the agents in plain words: “Was this told to other LPs?” The answer comes back with its source: all 186 QEIF IV LPs were given March 15, 2027 in the fund-wide notice of October 1, no side letter in Fund IV moves it, and 37 more LPs asked the same question this morning, grouped in wave W-118. She could also ask “Why March 15?”, “Show the capital account” or “Make it shorter” — the agents re-check the figures after any change.
- 07Approved
Sent with her name on it
Elena Marsh · Head of Investor Relations, Private MarketsDaniel Okoro, an investor services associate in London, prepared the reply at 03:41 ET with no edits to the agents' draft — he is the maker, Elena the checker. Approve & send shows who it goes to, the language, the four sources attached and the sent-by line, and asks for a checker note: “Figures match the notice and LPA §8.3; side letter respected.” The reply goes out in German, the English kept on file, and the footer now reads “Sent by Elena Marsh, Investor Relations”, with who prepared it and the four sources.
“Sent to Dr. Beat Hofstetter · logged with 4 sources”
- 0809:08 to 09:09 ET
Approve once as a template, answer 37 more
Elena Marsh and Marcus Bell · IR manager and compliance reviewerElena proposes the reply as template T-DIST-07, “Quarterly distribution and tax-pack date”, filled in per investor with amount, income, return of capital, payment date and tax date. The Template & waves agent writes and back-translates six language variants; Marcus Bell co-approves for compliance at 09:09 ET. The 37 waiting questions in wave W-118 — German, French, English, Dutch, Italian and Japanese — are answered, each with that LP's own amount from its own distribution notice, side letters checked.
“37 answered in 6 languages, each with that LP's own figures and sources. Similar questions are answered from now on.”
- 09Already sending
A K-1 wave of 312, and the 16 who need a person
Template & waves agentWaves form when the same question arrives 10 or more times in 5 days. Wave W-117 — “Why was the 2025 K-1 amended?” for Quillfield North America Private Credit Fund III — went to 312 investors in four languages after Elena and Marcus Bell approved one answer. 296 are answered, each with its own figure, such as USD 30,750 moved for Ridgeline Teachers' Retirement System, cited to the K-1 notice. 16 have side-letter terms and are pulled out for a person.
- 1006:56 ET
A lookalike sender asks to change bank details
Mei Lin Tan · Transfer Agency SupervisorAn email from pk-aaretaI.ch — a capital I in place of the letter l — asks, urgently, to pay future distributions to a new bank account. The Entitlement agent stopped it before any record was read, and no reply was drafted. It goes to Mei Lin Tan with the steps: call Dr. Hofstetter on the number on file, never a number in the email; the call is recorded by the identity call-back service; a second person confirms the outcome before anything changes.
“Not entitled — nothing was read.”