For Family Offices
Allocator Desk for Family Offices
The diligence memory layer for family offices investing across funds, directs, and co-invests.
Family offices blend fund commitments, direct investments, and co-invests across multiple entities, generations, and principal preferences. Allocator Desk captures the diligence reasoning and relationship context that sophisticated principals expect, in a format principals, trustees, and next-generation family members can actually inherit.
The workflow today
A typical family office investment team is a CIO, a director or two, and an analyst - supported by external counsel, tax, and an accounting firm. The portfolio mixes fund commitments, direct minority positions, co-invests alongside trusted GPs, and a layer of legacy positions that pre-date the current staff.
Principal preferences shape every decision - geographic biases, sector aversions, illiquidity tolerance, and the always-present question of what the next generation wants the portfolio to look like.
Not every family member, advisor, or outside service provider should see the same record - and today that boundary usually lives in someone's head, not in a system.
Documentation lives wherever it was first received - email, a deal-room export, an accountant's drive, a principal's personal folder. Reassembling the full picture for any single position is a half-day exercise.
What gets lost today
Principal preferences and constraints
Verbal guidance from a principal about a sector, geography, or co-invest rights rarely becomes a queryable record.
Cross-entity context
The same GP shows up across multiple entities at different commitment levels - the full picture is not in any single place.
Direct investment diligence trail
Direct deal memos, references, and post-close monitoring are scattered across the team.
Generational handoff context
When the next generation takes over, they inherit positions without the reasoning behind them.
Risks that show up in diligence and governance
Concentration across entities
GP, manager, and sector context across all entities is the view that matters most, and it's the hardest one to assemble.
Direct and co-invest underwriting drift
Without a structured framework, directs get done on conviction and relationship rather than a repeatable process.
Tax, legal, and structuring context
Side letter terms, blocker structures, and tax-sensitive considerations rarely sit in a single place tied to the position they relate to.
Privacy and access control
Family offices need granular control over who sees what - across staff, advisors, trustees, and generations.
How Allocator Desk becomes the system of record
Multi-entity coverage
Organize diligence, documents, and GP context across entities, principals, generations, and trust structures.
Signals and decision record
Every principal preference, GP touchpoint, and direct deal rationale captured in one record, owned by the office.
Obligations tracking
Track side letter terms, reporting cadences, capital call obligations, and key deadlines tied to each position.
Principal and decision briefs
Creates a current-state brief for any GP, direct investment, or co-investment - ready for a principal, trustee, or next-generation discussion.
Audit and records bundles
Read-only document bundles for external auditors, tax counsel, or trustees.
Example fields and workflows tracked
- Cross-entity GP and manager context
- Principal preference log and constraint registry
- Direct investment diligence memo and reference log
- Co-invest underwriting framework and post-close monitoring
- Tax, legal, and structuring context linked to each position
- Generational handoff briefing notes per relationship
- Side letter terms across entities
Common questions
We're a single-family office - our needs are too unique.
Allocator Desk is configured per office. The data model is structured but the workflow is yours.
Our admin handles document storage.
Storage is not the problem. Searchable, AI-queryable institutional memory is - and that is what Allocator Desk delivers.
We already use Addepar or accounting software.
Those systems help report positions and performance. Allocator Desk preserves the diligence trail, GP context, principal preferences, and decision history behind those positions - it sits beside your reporting stack, not on top of it.