For private-markets GPs · Transparent by construction
The investment operating system where the LP sees exactly what the GP sees. Every number cited to source. Every approval biometrically signed. Every deal compounding one thesis ledger. Not a distribution portal. Not a reporting layer bolted on. Transparency built in from the database up.
Seven principles. Enforced at the database.
Same data. Two governed views.
Audit trail by default. No exceptions.
A thesis that compounds. Every deal touches the ledger.
The Glass Box principle
These are not values. They are checks. Each line corresponds to an enforceable behaviour inside Glass Box: a citation, an owner, an approval, a treatment path, an audit entry, a permanent record. The product principle is the spec.
What Glass Box makes possible
Hand an LP read-only credentials and walk away.
Same data, governed view. The LP sees the NAV bridge, the watchlist, the deal passport, the capital activity — in real time, with citation provenance. No information leakage between LPs. No assembly job. Row-level security at the database, not the application.
Show LPs Section 4 of the thesis as it really stands.
The investment thesis is no longer a static deck. Its risk profile is live-wired to the risk register, concentration metrics, and liquidity profile of the strategy. The LP reads the same number the CRO sees, the moment it changes, with the source citation right next to it.
Pass a regulator audit in one click.
The compliance attestation, the audit trail, the snapshot pack — it is not a quarterly assembly job. It is the live state of the system. FRM_AM v0.40, MIFIDPRU 6 buffer, FCA PS23/3 liquidity tools, ILPA v2.0 reporting — all evidenced continuously. When the FCA arrives, the pack is already frozen, attributable, and time-stamped.
Lock the IC thesis at approval. Grade it every quarter.
Most GPs grade portfolio performance. They do not systematically grade whether the original underwriting assumption is still holding. Glass Box separates the two. When a thesis pillar breaks in year three, you know which assumption was wrong — not just that the IRR is off.
The Knowledge Engine
Most software manages data. Glass Box compounds judgement. Most of a firm's edge lives in emails, decks, and the heads of its senior people — and walks out the door when they do. Glass Box makes it a permanent, institutional asset.
Every other private markets system records what happened. Glass Box records what your firm believes — claim by claim, with evidence, status, and confidence. Deals test the claims. AI drafts the outcomes. The CIO biometric-signs the quarterly view. The next deal that walks in finds a thesis already shaped by every prior transaction.
Most firms use AI to generate content. Glass Box uses it to operationalise institutional knowledge.
Claim
The atom of the thesis
Every claim is a structured record: statement, rationale, status (Holding / Stressed / Broken / Untested / Retired), confidence, owner, and per-claim LP-visibility. Five sections × five strategies. Twenty-three live today across the demo platform.
Tag
Every deal touches the thesis
When an analyst opens a deal for IC, they tag the claims it tests. The platform tracks the relationship — tests / stresses / depends-on / reinforces — so when the deal closes, the outcome flows back to the right claims.
Outcome
AI drafts, humans decide
Claude Opus 4.7 reads the deal's metrics + risks + each tagged claim, then drafts a one-sentence outcome — confirmed, stressed, broke, or inconclusive. The deal team edits the verdict and records it. Nothing lands on the thesis without human approval.
Publish
Biometric, immutable, governed
Status changes are biometrically signed and immutably logged. LP-publication is a separate biometric act per claim. The LP sees the same outcome line the CIO records — with delay = zero, and per-claim governance.
Live from the platform
One claim. Real data. Pulled from the platform at page load.
Cross-strategy
Claims are connected. When one moves, the platform tells you which others to revisit.
The Real Estate PBSA claim depends on UK pension allocation patterns. The Growth Equity Mansion House claim does too. The platform maps the relationship as typed edges — depends-on, conflicts-with, reinforces. When the CIO walks the quarterly review, the screen surfaces which other claims to revisit before sign-off. No human in the firm holds all of this in their head. The platform does.
The shift
Most private-markets software
System of record
Glass Box
System of action
What Glass Box does
Glass Box runs across the entire investment lifecycle — sourcing, diligence, IC, execution, monitoring, LP reporting. Below is what is built and live in the platform as of today, grouped by theme.
Marquee
GP Operating Cockpit
A single screen for the partner, the analyst, the CRO. Inbox-style action stream of what needs you now — IC votes due, AI-proposed risks awaiting your accept, stale priority LPs, drifting thesis pillars, open limit breaches. Written in briefing voice, not dashboard counts. Snooze what isn't yours; clear the rest. Every action attributable to a name, a timestamp, and a biometric.
Knowledge Engine
The thesis that compounds
Every claim is a structured atom: statement, status (Holding / Stressed / Broken / Untested / Retired), confidence, evidence, per-claim LP visibility. Deals tag the claims they test. AI drafts the outcomes. The CIO biometric-signs the quarterly view. The next deal that walks in finds a thesis already shaped by every prior transaction. No other private markets system does this.
For the GP — governance
Governance & decision velocity
Decisions are first-class records, not Slack threads. Each carries title, rationale, alternatives, evidence, risks accepted, dissents, follow-ups. Approvals are biometrically signed (WebAuthn / FIDO2) across seven governance surfaces. Threshold votes auto-transition. Approvals auto-draft LP-facing publications.
For the GP — risk
Risk Register & FRM quantitative engines
FRM_AM v0.40 implemented as a live system. Five Tier-2 engines compute stress losses against caps every period. Breach lifecycle (detect → acknowledge → plan → resolve) is the audit trail.
For the GP — compliance & capital
Compliance, Liquidity, ICARA
Policy book live with version switching between legacy and current frameworks. Liquidity per FRM Ch 4 + FCA PS23/3. ICARA + Wind-Down per FRM Ch 5. Strategic Asset Allocation tracked per fund.
For the LP
LP Confidence System
Same data the GP sees, governed view. The engagement log the GP team works against is what the LP sees on their Our Record page. NAV bridge with AI variance narrative. Six printable reports including ILPA Capital Account v2.0. Natural-language Q&A scoped to your commitments. No marketing-shaped sanitisation; just the receipts.
Foundations
Verifiable by design
Row-level security at the database. Every meaningful action recorded. Snapshots are immutable. AI outputs human-approved before any LP sees them. The audit trail is the product.
Origination & deal velocity
From sourcing to IC
Deals enter as Pipeline Opportunities mapped to AUM allocations. CIMs are ingested by AI and parsed into the deal record with citation provenance back to the source page. Same upload auto-runs Pre-Trade compliance, IC readiness, and seeds the Risk Register — every output flagged AI Generated, edit-then-accept before it satisfies the stage gate. Memos drafted per-strategy under version lock. Stage transitions audit-bound and gate-driven.
Relationships
Polymorphic relationship CRM
One substrate for every relationship the GP runs — LPs, portfolio companies, counterparties, advisors, regulators, government bodies. Single status ladder spanning fundraising (prospect → committed) into operational (active → exited). Engagement log, materials shared with visibility scoping, AI-research cache. Priority-LP quick-filters; stale-relationship alerts; LP-side transparency view shows the same engagement log to the LP (with per-row internal toggle for genuinely sensitive items).
The institutional surface
Each strategy maintains its own Investment Thesis as a structured, versioned document — the anchor deliverable Phase 1 of fund launch. Section 2 lists named pipeline opportunities mapped to the AUM target. Section 4 is live-wired to the risk register: the LP sees the same numbers as the CRO, in real time, with citations.
Real Estate Fund I
UK Living · Regeneration · Logistics
Thesis live · Section 4 wired
Growth Equity Fund I
UK mid-market growth equity
Thesis live · Section 4 wired
Private Credit Fund I
Senior secured · UK direct lending
Thesis live · Section 4 wired
Private Equity Fund I
UK mid-market · permanently private
Thesis live · Section 4 wired
Infrastructure Fund I
Energy transition · Digital · Social
Thesis live · Section 4 wired
Pipeline opportunities are typed as equity, debt, or hybrid — supporting Infrastructure's dual mandate and Private Credit's senior-secured fund. The Pipeline Opportunity entity sits between the thesis and the deal record, so LPs can trace claim → pursuit → deal → decision → portfolio entry as one chain of custody.
The Glass Box flip
The same portfolio company, seen by the GP and seen by the LP. The shared rows are identical. The filtered rows are filtered at the database, before any application code runs. The LP cannot query the GP-only fields — they are not in the response.
Cantilever Climate
one row in deal · two governed views
Operating cockpit
role = 'gp'
Full visibility · all decisions, votes, audit
Confidence system
role = 'lp'
Scoped to your commitments · audit-grade · read only
Row-level security with helper functions gb_tenant_id() and gb_role(). The compliance step before any LP publication is a hard gate at the status enum, not a suggestion in the UI.
UK regulatory perimeter
UK pension capital is shifting into UK private markets at a scale the existing reporting infrastructure was not designed to support. The regulatory perimeter has tightened in eighteen months: ILPA v2.0 is the new disclosure floor; the Mansion House Compact requires DC scheme allocations that must survive audit-committee scrutiny; MIFIDPRU 6 and FCA PS23/3 raise the bar on liquidity and capital adequacy; FCA SDR exposes ESG claims to consumer-protection enforcement.
Glass Box is built for that perimeter. The FRM_AM v0.40 policy book runs as live software — five quantitative engines, MIFIDPRU 6 buffer monitoring, PS23/3 liquidity tools per fund, ICARA + Wind- Down per Ch 5, SAA tracked per strategy. ILPA-aligned reports generate live from the ledger. Snapshot freezes produce regulator- ready evidence packs in one click. The evidence pack does not need a two-week assembly job.
A pension trustee can ask “what is your largest sector exposure today, and how does that compare to your Tier 1 risk appetite statement?” — and the answer is the same page the CRO sees, with the underlying calculation methodology one click away.
Positioning
Glass Box does not replace your existing stack. Each tool below is best-in-class for its layer. Glass Box is the governance layer above them — the system that connects them into a continuous, auditable operating rhythm.
| We are not | Best in class | Our relationship |
|---|---|---|
| A CRM | Affinity, DealCloud, Salesforce | We read contacts. We don't manage them. |
| A VDR | Datasite, Intralinks, iDeals | We read documents. We don't store the master. |
| A fund administrator | eFront, Allvue, FIS Investran | We read NAV. We don't strike it. |
| Portfolio analytics | Chronograph, 73 Strings | We overlap here. We go deeper on governance. |
| A generalist no-code platform | Notion, Airtable, Coda | We are domain-specific. They are infrastructure. |
We are the audit-grade governance layer that turns the assembly of every other tool into a single live, attributable, regulator- ready system. We coexist by design.
Verifiable by design
Biometric approvals on every governance gate
Five surfaces — IC decision approve, Val Co finalise, IPV → committee, stage advance into execution / portfolio, limit breach resolve — require a fresh Face ID / Touch ID / Windows Hello / FIDO2 signature within 60 seconds. The biometric never leaves the device; the server verifies a signed challenge. No password-only approvals. No service-account approvals. Spoofing requires physical custody of a registered device AND the biometric.
Row-level data scoping
Every database row is scoped by tenant and role. The application asks for 'all deals'; the database silently filters before returning. An LP physically cannot query another LP's data — enforced at the data layer, not the application layer.
Audit trail by default
Every meaningful action, every field-level change, every approval vote, every AI output is recorded with attribution, timestamp, and rationale. Each approval row is paired with its biometric signature within 60 seconds. The audit trail is append-only at the database level.
AI under human approval
Every AI-drafted memo, narrative, and LP publication is reviewed by a named GP team member before it reaches an LP. No autonomous LP communication. Every AI output carries its source citations.
Methodology under independent review
Credit methodology authored by a senior practitioner with institutional risk-management lineage. The TypeScript implementation is regression-tested against the methodology document's worked examples. Findings are surfaced for review, not silenced.
Snapshot freeze for regulator evidence
Snapshots are immutable signed period freezes. ILPA Capital Account, Val Co Pack, breach timeline, quarterly report — each one is a deterministic artefact generated from the ledger at a moment in time. When the FCA visits, the pack is already frozen, attributable, and time-stamped. No two-week assembly job.
Built. Live. Open to scrutiny.
Live from the platform
Real Estate Fund I · RE-PBSA-CAP-COMPRESSION
“UK PBSA cap rates compress 25bps over 2026-2028 as DC schemes allocate to defensive inflation-linked cash flows”
Evidence rows
1
Deal tests
0
Last review
Pending
Cross-strategy
1 link
This card is server-rendered from the live thesis ledger. Status changes are biometrically signed by the strategy owner. The same statement, status, and evidence is what an LP sees in their portal — gated only by the per-claim LP-visibility flag.