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Essays and points of view from the Nextmatter team on orchestration, automation, AI agents and what actually works inside regulated fund operations.

Orchestration

The Automation Trap: Why APIs and Orchestrations Won't Fix Fund Operations

Treating APIs, orchestrations and orchestration as interchangeable is the root cause of automation debt. Here's the difference — and why fund services needs the third one.

Jonty Hurwitz · Founder

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AI in fund ops

"Why can't I just use AI to do this myself?" The hidden cost of DIY AI.

An LLM is a brilliant, stateless reasoning engine. Fund operations needs state, governance and audit. Here's why DIY AI quietly becomes a million-dollar science experiment.

Jonty Hurwitz · Founder

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