Sharp takes from the front line
Essays and points of view from the Next Matter 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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Process management
What "work" actually means. Why it matters for process management
Errands, projects, processes. Understanding the difference is the first step to digitising the work that actually runs your business — and to seeing why spreadsheets and email keep failing at it.
Tassilo Karunarathna · Next Matter
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