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The Operator, or "I Know Kung Fu"

Notes on a new craft, written for America's 250th birthday.

Operating AI is a new craft - part model, part operator, part a toolset you build yourself, like a mechanic who brings their own. On America's 250th birthday, a note on Tank, kung fu, and what the machinery is really for: buying back your time.

PlexiFlexor 5 min read

A government switched off a frontier AI model in an afternoon

Part 1 of 2 - the afternoon the switch got flipped

On June 12, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 went dark worldwide. The models didn't break. The U.S. government sent Anthropic a letter, and a company had until midnight to comply. The model was never the point.

PlexiFlexor 4 min read

The model was never your moat

Part 2 of 2 - building for the afternoon your model goes dark

Fable 5 going dark was a stress test for everyone who builds on AI. The companies that passed it had put their value somewhere a government letter couldn't reach.

Industry 8 min read

Where the SEC Private Fund Rule Stands in Q2 2026 - and What Operators Should Do

A practitioner read of the current state, after the appellate ruling, the partial vacatur, and the staff guidance

The Private Fund Adviser Rule has been alternately upheld, vacated, and re-interpreted. The compliance team is asking what to actually do this quarter. Here is the operator-level read.

PlexiFlexor 8 min read

Agentic AI in Fund Operations: Where It Actually Helps (and Where It Doesn't)

Three deployments, three honest verdicts on what agents are ready for

The agentic AI conversation has gotten loud. Most of the use cases pitched to fund operators are theatre. Here are three where we have shipped real agents into real workflows - and one where we walked away.

PlexiFact 7 min read

Why We Built 40+ Connectors Instead of "Just Using a Warehouse"

The economics of buying versus building the fund-data layer

Every fund evaluating a data platform asks the same question: why not just dump everything into a general-purpose warehouse and write SQL? Here is the cost model that answers it.

Advisory & Services 7 min read

The First 90 Days After a Fund Acquisition: A Data Integration Playbook

How institutional alpha gets lost in the months between announcement and integration

Most fund acquisitions destroy more value in the first quarter post-close than the deal team predicted in the entire integration plan. The reason is almost always the data layer. Here is the playbook we run.

PlexiFlexor 8 min read

Institutional Knowledge Is an AI Problem - Here's How to Solve It

Why the average hedge fund loses 40% of its operational intelligence every 3 years

Every fund has tribal knowledge living in the heads of 2-3 people. When those people leave, the knowledge leaves with them. Agentic AI with structured knowledge vaults is the first approach that actually solves this - not just manages it.

PlexiFact 7 min read

Why Fund Data Reconciliation Breaks at Scale - and How to Fix It

The three failure modes we see in every mid-market fund data stack

Reconciliation is where alternative asset fund data goes to die. After 20+ deployments, we've catalogued three root causes that account for 90% of reconciliation failures. Here's what they are and how we fix them.

Advisory & Services 6 min read

What a Fractional CTO Actually Does at a Hedge Fund

Beyond "strategic technology leadership" - a practitioner's account

Most alternative asset managers know they need senior technology leadership but can't justify a full-time CTO hire at $400K+. Here's what a fractional CTO actually delivers, week by week, and where it pays off.

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