PLEXI Blog - Insights on Data, AI, and Alternative Assets https://plexl.ai/blog Expert perspectives on fund data management, agentic AI, fractional CTO advisory, and the technology shaping alternative asset management. en-us Wed, 27 May 2026 05:07:35 GMT info@plexl.ai (PLEXI) info@plexl.ai (PLEXI) Where the SEC Private Fund Rule Stands in Q2 2026 - and What Operators Should Do https://plexl.ai/blog/sec-private-fund-rule-q2-2026-state https://plexl.ai/blog/sec-private-fund-rule-q2-2026-state 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. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dmitry Morgunov industry regulation sec-rule compliance private-funds Agentic AI in Fund Operations: Where It Actually Helps (and Where It Doesn't) https://plexl.ai/blog/agentic-ai-fund-operations-where-it-actually-helps https://plexl.ai/blog/agentic-ai-fund-operations-where-it-actually-helps 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. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Philipp Starovoytov plexiflexor plexiflexor agentic-ai fund-operations production-ai Why We Built 40+ Connectors Instead of "Just Using a Warehouse" https://plexl.ai/blog/plexifact-connector-economics https://plexl.ai/blog/plexifact-connector-economics 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. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Philipp Starovoytov plexifact plexifact data-platform connectors buy-vs-build The First 90 Days After a Fund Acquisition: A Data Integration Playbook https://plexl.ai/blog/m-and-a-integration-data-playbook https://plexl.ai/blog/m-and-a-integration-data-playbook 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. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alex Chianuri services m-and-a-integration fund-operations integration-playbook alternative-assets Institutional Knowledge Is an AI Problem - Here's How to Solve It https://plexl.ai/blog/institutional-knowledge-agentic-ai https://plexl.ai/blog/institutional-knowledge-agentic-ai 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. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dmitry Morgunov plexiflexor agentic-ai knowledge-management alternative-assets operations Why Fund Data Reconciliation Breaks at Scale - and How to Fix It https://plexl.ai/blog/fund-data-reconciliation-why-it-breaks https://plexl.ai/blog/fund-data-reconciliation-why-it-breaks 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. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Philipp Starovoytov plexifact data-reconciliation fund-data alternative-assets data-quality What a Fractional CTO Actually Does at a Hedge Fund https://plexl.ai/blog/fractional-cto-alternative-asset-managers https://plexl.ai/blog/fractional-cto-alternative-asset-managers 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. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alex Chianuri services fractional-cto alternative-assets technology-strategy hedge-funds