Every seat held by an expert. Every workflow engineered.
A seasoned private-capital bench + applied-AI engineers = everything it takes to close at an institutional standard.
Fee-for-service.
No transaction-based compensation or success fees.
No need to hire every senior capability full-time, or pay senior rates for every production hour.
Use senior judgment where judgment matters. Deploy the appropriate resources everywhere else.
Agentic workflows: research, analysis, drafting, reconciliation, monitoring, database and workflow work.
Before production: establishes the method, professional standard and critical assumptions.
During production: resolves questions where domain judgment changes the work.
Before delivery: reviews material outputs and determines whether they meet the required standard.
- Emerging fund managers and fund managers going back to market.
- Independent sponsors, search funds and acquisition entrepreneurs.
- Single-family and multi-family offices.
- Mid-market private-equity, private-credit and portfolio-operations teams.
- Fundraising and investor-relations teams.
The Institutional Threshold.
Running private capital has become harder on every front.
Allocators are actively concentrating their GP relationships.
Winning capital today requires flawless operational proof, institutional data rooms, and precision structuring to clear escalating due diligence.
Senior people spend too much time on work that does not require senior judgment.
The sheer volume of data required to syndicate an asset or go to market routinely overwhelms internal capacity, stalling actual deployment.
Building the permanent team required to do all of it makes no economic sense.
Episodic workloads make permanent specialist headcount economically inefficient.
Private-capital firms increasingly face a structural mismatch: their work is becoming more complex and data-heavy; they need more specialist capability than they can justify hiring permanently.
Institutional Execution Mandates.
Institutional capability, deployed to need.
The client and its authorized professionals retain final decisions and any regulated authority.
Institutional data room architecture and DDQ execution.
Allocator universe mapping; capital-formation support and fundraising operations.
Private-market research; LP research and targeting.
Aligning the fund strategy directly against active institutional investment criteria.
LP contacts and mandate histories.
Continuous monitoring of allocator capital deployment.
Fully indexed, permission-gated institutional diligence environments.
Comprehensive answer libraries and controlled Q&A logs.
CRM and database work; allocator tracking.
Pitch deck assembly and institutional LP tear-sheets.
Streamlined investor reporting interfaces and secure communications.
Transaction support for independent sponsors and co-investments.
Execution integrates mechanical deal structuring, active underwriting support, and institutional presentation materials delivered strictly within compressed transaction windows.
Capital-stack structuring and waterfall fee schedules.
Research records and competitive landscape mapping.
Co-investment memorandums and institutional presentation materials.
Upgrading internal data governance.
Automated reporting frameworks, secure CRM entity mapping, and compliance calendars.
Exception-based tracking for LP reporting deadlines and SEC filings.
Reconciling GP workflows to streamline third-party fund administration.
Structuring unstructured legacy data into secure relational databases.
Engineering pipelines for rapid document generation and API triggers.
Workflow design and automation; agentic AI architecture and implementation.
Investment-committee and decision materials.
Diligence and private-market research; financial analysis and modeling; investor and fund reporting.
Commercial Alignment.
Use only what the mandate requires.
Operating mandates are structured strictly as fee-for-service operational expenses.
Fixed-scope execution for clear outputs.
Targeted infrastructure is deployed to execute specific, immediate deliverables—such as architecting an institutional data room, financial models, or DDQ libraries.
An ongoing functional need or project lane.
Operational continuity is established for specific functions, defining capacity limits and priorities upfront.
Tenth Man coordinates multiple capabilities around a larger objective.
The client buys senior judgment and institutional-quality execution without having to build the entire institutional cost structure internally.
Recurring access to the Tenth Man operating model as needs arise.
Once the relationship and context exist, the client can move from problem to appropriately staffed execution faster than repeatedly sourcing, briefing and managing new outside providers.
One accountable relationship.
You hire Tenth Man; Corey leads the mandate.
Two years building hands-on AI and agentic-systems engineering capability, so the conductor can directly architect and direct the agentic execution layer.
First, we pressure-test the mandate.
Translating the specific capital objective or operational bottleneck into finite, executable workstreams.
The conductor determines the required outcome and the standard expected by the person or committee receiving the work.
Seasoned advisors establish method, assumptions, and professional standard.
Critical work returns to the relevant senior specialist for professional review, correction and internal release.
Reserved Acts: Securities solicitation or placement activity, regulated opinions, legal or accounting opinions, transaction negotiation and execution, signatures and binding authority, and communications that legally require the client's or a regulated professional's authority remain with the client and its authorized professionals.
Engineered systems do the volume.
Agentic workflows, automation, analysts, data and other production resources perform much of the underlying work at the appropriate cost level.
Anomalies and data gaps are automatically flagged and routed to human specialists.
Tenth Man combines the outputs into a coherent client-ready result.
Consolidating all systemic and specialist outputs into a unified, deployable asset.
Delivering the exact capital-formation materials the mandate requires.
Bring us the question.
If you are deciding whether to build the capability, hire it, expand an existing provider or bring in outside expertise, ask us.
The Principal reviews every inquiry directly. We’ll tell you whether Tenth Man fits, how we would think about the work, and what should remain with you.