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July 06, 2026
The volume of due diligence questionnaires only continues to climb. One GP told Ontra that the finance team handled 1700+ pages of questions from 70+ LPs during its latest raise. The principal even joked about wanting to cry when the first DDQ came in due to its length and complexity. The firm’s manual DDQ process
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June 12, 2026
Ontra has earned ISO 42001 certification, the world’s first international standard for managing AI. AI is now embedded in the workflows private markets firms rely on every day — contract review, fund obligation tracking, due diligence, and reporting. Legal, compliance, and operations leaders increasingly need to know how their AI providers govern the systems behind
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June 12, 2026
Author: Eric Hawkins, CTO I run engineering at a company that builds AI software for private markets. My team ships products that GPs, LPs, investment banks, and law firms use every day. We also use Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models internally to write code and automate the boring parts of our own engineering work. So
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June 04, 2026
DDQ volume is growing, teams are buried under requests, and generic AI is creating false confidence. Neither generic LLMs nor horizontal RFP tools were built for private fund workflows. They break down at crucial steps. Instead of running that risk, firms can automate DDQs with purpose-built AI by digitizing and centralizing approved precedent in a
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May 26, 2026
Despite an ever-growing volume of DDQs, investor relations teams are still relying on manual DDQ workflows like this: Receive a DDQ from an investor. Review the questions. Struggle to find answers across different documents. Attempt to answer each question by copying & pasting or drafting from scratch. Confirm each answer with legal and compliance Go
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May 19, 2026
For years now, Ontra’s customers have been telling us their daily frustrations with due diligence questionnaires. Whether it’s fundraising DDQs or ESQ and operational requests throughout the year, investor relations teams and their colleagues are carrying the weight of a growing volume of requests. Some managers have told us they handle up to 30 requests
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May 12, 2026
Fund managers are fielding more due diligence questionnaires than ever — and the requests are getting harder. LPs are scrutinizing fund performance closely, demanding transparency across operational practices, ESG commitments, and investment strategy before committing capital. For the investor relations, legal, compliance, finance, and ESG professionals who collectively own the DDQ process, that trend means
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May 05, 2026
Large language models have changed the game, and private equity firms are now assessing whether to rely on frontier LLM platforms from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, purchase purpose-built AI solutions, or build tools in-house. Throughout that process, seemingly successful individual experiments are creating the illusion that horizontal LLMs can solve widespread PE pain points —
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April 23, 2026
Without a purpose-built solution, Most Favored Nations elections are manual, inefficient, and expensive. By relying on outside counsel to run the process, MFN timelines often stretch to 9–12 months, racking up a significant invoice while GPs lose visibility into their commitments. Meanwhile, GPs are feeling the pressure. LP leverage in a compressed fundraising environment has
