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For wealth managers running alts on a patchwork stack · Aqua AIX

What does your patchwork actually cost?

Tally up the FTE time, tool spend, and reconciliation overhead of running alts across multiple portals, fund admins, and spreadsheets. See the gap to a TAIP-native operating model.

Target
Heads of Alts & COOs at RIAs, broker-dealers, and MFOs running alts programs across 3+ tools. The CFO is asking why ops costs keep climbing.
RIA · IBD · MFO Head of Alts 10+ products
Hook
A 60-second audit that surfaces the hidden cost of fragmentation — manual reconciliation hours, error exposure, redundant tool spend. Output is a one-page memo for an internal review.
Patchwork $ Hours saved TAIP delta
Funnel
Drives to Aqua AIX, the operating-system tier. The patchwork breakdown maps directly to AIX module names, so the demo conversation starts on the right module.
AIX Book demo →

Your alts program

Quick estimates — the audit recalculates as you go.

# of alts products on platform
Total alts investors 2,500
# of fund admins
# of custodians
Internal alts ops team 8 FTE
Patchwork severity (current tools)
Excel Custodian portals Fund admin portals Email-based subs Doc portals Generic CRM
Estimated annual cost · Patchwork stack
$2.4M /yr
Across team time, tools, and error exposure. Aqua AIX would replace 62% of this with one platform.
Hours/wk on reconciliation
112 hrs
Error exposure (annual)
$640K
Time-to-add-product
6 wks

Where the cost goes

Patchwork (today)

$2.4M
All-in annual cost
  • 3-day NAV reconciliationSLOW
  • Manual sub doc routingSLOW
  • Multi-system investor viewFRAGILE
  • Spreadsheet-based reportingRISKY

With Aqua AIX

$910K
All-in annual cost (incl. platform fee)
  • Same-day NAV syncUNIFIED
  • Digital subscriptions, audit-trailFAST
  • Single investor / fund of recordCLEAN
  • Live dashboards, no spreadsheetsREAL-TIME
Book AIX demo →
Indicative · Rule-of-thumb model
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