The clean data layer for investment firms

Your firm’s data,
finally AI-ready.

Investing runs on information — and almost none of it is ready for AI. We deploy engineers into your firm, clean and standardize the data, and stand it up as one secure, SOC-2 drive with a chat assistant built in — so your team can ask any file a question and every agent works with real context.

PE · IB · VC
Built for how investment firms work
Weeks
From scattered files to a queryable drive
SOC-2
Strict per-file access, from day one

Built for the way investment firms work — private equity, investment banking, and venture.

Deal pipelineDiligenceIC memosReportingResearch
The problem

Before AI can help, your data has to be cleaned into one context window.

Most investment firms are still analog. Deal docs live in email attachments. Pipeline lives in a partner’s spreadsheet. Diligence is scattered across a dozen data rooms. There is no central repository — no single, structured place the firm’s knowledge lives.

The AI tools built for finance assume a clean, structured data layer underneath — but most firms simply don’t have one. Agents are only as good as the context they can reach, and raw PDFs, decks, and inconsistent spreadsheets make for a terrible context window. The bottleneck isn’t the model. It’s the data.

  • No central repository across the firm
  • Documents agents can't actually parse
  • Memos & reporting rebuilt by hand
  • Nothing comparable across deals
How it works

Forward-deployed engineers who leave your data AI-ready.

Standardizing storage across an entire portfolio is hard. Cleaning and structuring the data is not — it’s the addressable wedge. So we come in and do it by hand, then leave behind a system that keeps it that way.

01

Embed

Our engineers deploy into your firm and map every source of data — the drives, inboxes, data rooms, spreadsheets, memos, and reporting.

02

Clean & standardize

We dedupe, normalize, extract, and label — turning PDFs, decks, memos, and inconsistent spreadsheets into structured documents in one consistent shape.

03

Stand up the Drive

One home for deals, documents, and reporting — a standardized file system on S3 that's as simple as Google Drive, SOC-2 and access-controlled by default.

04

Query & connect

A chat assistant built into the Drive lets your team ask any file a question, while an MCP layer gives external agents the same clean context — all under strict per-file permissions.

The Corlake Drive

Google Drive for your firm — with an analyst built in.

The interface feels like Google Drive, but every document is cleaned, structured, and labeled underneath — and a chat assistant sits right inside it. Ask your most sensitive files a question and get a sourced answer, governed by strict, per-file access controls. An MCP endpoint exposes the same clean context to any external agent.

app.corlake.com/drive
All files
Search the drive
NameAccess
Deals
128 items
Folder
Diligence
46 items
Folder
PDF
Project Atlas — IC Memo.pdf
Updated 2d ago · Cleaned
IC only
XLS
2024 Portfolio Reporting.xlsx
Updated 5d ago · Standardized
Deal team
PDF
Project Nova — CIM.pdf
Updated 1w ago · Cleaned
Restricted
XLS
Comps — Q3.xlsx
Updated 2w ago · Standardized
Deal team

Ask your files anything

A chat assistant lives right in the Drive — a cursor for your documents. Ask across every deal, memo, and report and get an answer sourced to the exact file.

Strict, per-file access

Every file, folder, and query respects granular permissions. People and agents only ever see — and only ever get answers from — what they're cleared for.

SOC-2 from day one

Encryption at rest, full audit logging, and compliance controls built in from the start — ready for LP, client, and regulatory scrutiny.

One standardized shape

Every deal and entity lands in the same schema — so the whole firm is comparable, roll-up-able, and query-able in one place.

S3-native, your cloud

The Drive runs on object storage you control. Data never has to leave your environment, and there's no proprietary lock-in underneath.

Context-aware MCP layer

External agents connect through Model Context Protocol and receive documents pre-parsed and labeled — a clean context window instead of raw blobs.

Engagements

Start with an audit. Clean once, or run the layer for good.

Every engagement begins with the audit. From there, take a one-time cleanup or the standing data layer — most firms end up wanting the layer.

Start here

Data Audit

$25k – $60k
Fixed scope · 2–3 weeks

We map where your data lives across the firm, score how AI-ready it is, and return a concrete plan: what to clean, what it unlocks, and what it costs.

  • Full data inventory
  • AI-readiness scorecard
  • Scoped cleanup plan
One-time

The Cleanup

Project-based
Come in, clean, hand off

Engineers deploy in and clean and standardize your existing data in place — structured, labeled, and organized. We hand it back and leave. No platform, no recurring fee.

  • Deduped & normalized data
  • Standardized structure
  • Delivered in your cloud
The data layer

Corlake Drive

Annual subscription
Built-in assistant + MCP · run ongoing

The full system: your data cleaned and stood up as a standardized, S3-native drive with the built-in chat assistant and MCP layer — kept current as new deals and documents flow in.

  • Standardized drive on your S3
  • Built-in assistant + MCP endpoint
  • Per-file access, SOC-2 by default
In practice

A firm with years of deals and no way to ask its own files a question.

The audit

A 2-week diagnostic found deal docs collected by email, years of diligence and IC memos in scattered folders, and no two teams organizing files the same way.

The cleanup

Engineers deployed in for six weeks — extracting, normalizing, and labeling deal files, memos, and reporting into one standardized, permissioned shape across the firm.

The drive

It's now live as a Corlake Drive on the firm's own S3, with the built-in assistant switched on. Anyone asks plain-English questions across every file they're cleared for and gets sourced answers in seconds.

Outcome
Every file
Standardized into one shape
Days → sec
To find and query any document
Per-file
Access controls, SOC-2 from day one

The firm didn’t need another AI tool. It needed its data made usable — once that was true, every tool downstream started working.

Why it matters

Clean the data once, and everything downstream gets easier.

1 shape
Standardized across the whole firm
Days → sec
To find and query any file
Per-file
Access controls, SOC-2 from day one
0
Data leaves your cloud — it's your S3
Who we serve

Built for how investment firms work.

Private equity

Portfolio, diligence, and reporting across every holding — standardized and query-able in one place, so the deal team and every AI tool has clean data to work with.

Investment banks

Pitch books, comps, CIMs, and client files — cleaned and standardized, so bankers and their copilots find and reuse the firm’s knowledge instantly.

Venture capital

Pipeline, memos, and portfolio updates in one home — ask across every deal you’ve ever seen, without digging through inboxes and shared drives.

Start here

See how AI-ready your firm’s data really is.

Start with a fixed-scope data audit. In two to three weeks you’ll have a full inventory, an AI-readiness scorecard, and a concrete plan to make your firm’s data usable.

Or reach us directly at partners@corlake.com