Training · Private Equity & Funds

AI Training for Private Equity & Funds, Workshops on the Fund's Own Systems

Your edge is judgment, not data entry. We train deal teams, fund operations, and family offices to work AI-natively, on the fund's own systems, with the confidentiality a fund actually requires.

Every fund now has an AI paragraph in its annual letter, and every portfolio company has been told to adopt it. Inside the firm, the picture is usually thinner: associates triage inbound teasers by hand, quarterly reporting is a copy-paste exercise across the CRM and a spreadsheet, and LP questions are answered from memory and old decks.

Generic AI courses do not fix this, for a reason specific to funds: the work is confidential and system-bound. A prompt course cannot touch your deal flow, your LP data, or your portfolio reporting, so it teaches tricks, and the real work stays manual.

AI training for private equity, fund operations, and family offices

Specialty Tokens runs AI training as the entry tier of our engagement model. Before the workshop, we connect the AI tools your firm has approved, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, to the systems where the fund's knowledge actually lives, through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The exercises are your own work: screening an inbound teaser against your thesis, answering a portfolio question with sources, assembling the factual sections of an IC memo, preparing the quarterly report.

The program runs in two tracks. Partners and principals get the judgment questions: where AI carries weight in the fund, what it costs, what to govern, and what to leave alone. Fund operations, finance, and IR get hands-on time: the people who run reporting, reconciliations, capital calls, and LP communications build automations they keep.

The same format serves the wider table, family offices with consolidated reporting and document-heavy workflows, hedge funds with research and middle-office load, and the fund administrators around them. The training runs where the team already works: for Microsoft houses, agents inside Microsoft Teams and Copilot, see Microsoft Copilot consulting, and for Slack firms, the same pattern in Slack. The private systems every fund runs on, portfolio monitoring, fund administration, proprietary models and databases, are reachable through custom MCP connectors built for your stack, inside your perimeter.

Security is the ground rule, not a slide. Deal flow, LP data, and portfolio numbers stay inside your perimeter; nothing trains public models; reads are free and writes queue behind a named approver, logged. Compliance is welcome in the room.

We have sat on your side of the table. Thomas Schlossmacher worked at a family office (Corecam) and built revenue-operations software for ERP systems; Nik Redl built financial infrastructure and scaled products past a million users. Both have served companies on financial operations where security was a requirement, not a feature. It is the same pairing behind our work with Speedinvest, the pan-European venture firm, and Talentir, a financial-infrastructure company, engagements about making a firm's own data usable by the AI tools it already trusts.

We help investment firms go AI native, from a first workshop, through advisory for partners and CFOs, to agents in production via AI agent development and embedded AI transformation where the mandate is bigger. We are based in Vienna and train firms across DACH, the UK, and the rest of Europe, in English or German. For the finance function itself, see AI workshops for finance teams; for the general format, AI workshops & training.

What you get.

  • Built on your fund's stack, not a sandbox

    Exercises run against the systems your team actually uses, the CRM, the data room, the reporting stack, so the skills survive contact with real fund work.

  • A partner track and an operations track

    Partners and principals get the judgment questions, where AI carries weight in the fund, what to govern, what it costs. Fund operations and IR get hands-on time building automations they keep.

  • Confidential by construction

    LP data, deal flow, and portfolio numbers stay inside your perimeter. Nothing trains public models; writes queue behind human approval and every action is logged.

  • Taught by people who have sat on your side

    Thomas worked at a family office; Nik built financial infrastructure. Both have served companies on financial operations where security was a requirement, not a feature.

  • Deal work, from screening to IC memo

    Deal-flow triage, portfolio-grounded answers, and evidenced IC memo drafts, the same workflows we build for funds in production.

  • A bridge into building

    Most sessions end with a ranked shortlist of fund processes worth automating. When you are ready, agent development picks up exactly there.

The alternatives

Why teams pick a partner over a platform.

Off-the-shelf AI stops at chat. Consultancies leave with the deck. We do neither.

Off-the-shelf AI

ChatGPT Enterprise, Glean, Copilot

  • Reaches your ERP, CRM and back-officeNo
  • An agent platform your team can build onPartial
  • Custom skills built around your workflowsPartial
  • The IP stays yours, not the vendor'sNo
  • Works across Claude, ChatGPT and GeminiNo
  • Upskills your team to run it themselvesNo
  • Embedded with your team until it worksPartial

Traditional consultancy

Decks, then exit

  • Reaches your ERP, CRM and back-officePartial
  • An agent platform your team can build onNo
  • Custom skills built around your workflowsYes
  • The IP stays yours, not the vendor'sPartial
  • Works across Claude, ChatGPT and GeminiNo
  • Upskills your team to run it themselvesPartial
  • Embedded with your team until it worksNo

Specialty Tokens

Partner

  • Reaches your ERP, CRM and back-officeYes
  • An agent platform your team can build onYes
  • Custom skills built around your workflowsYes
  • The IP stays yours, not the vendor'sYes
  • Works across Claude, ChatGPT and GeminiYes
  • Upskills your team to run it themselvesYes
  • Embedded with your team until it worksYes

Leadership

We get serious companies through the shift. Here's who leads it.

We run Specialty Tokens as one practice: engineers, consultants, and operators across strategy, integration, agents, and rollout. Our directors set the standard and stay close to the work: the people who scope an engagement are the people in the code, and accountability never leaves the room.

Nik Redl and Thomas Schlossmacher, directors of Specialty Tokens

Nik Redl

Director

Engineer, operator and AI advisor.

Nik is a Director of Specialty Tokens.

Prior to Specialty Tokens, Nik was Chief of Staff at Soona. Before that, he was CEO and founder of Mokker, which he grew to over one million users before its acquisition by Soona. He advises and consults companies across the AI space.

He is an engineer, operator and AI advisor. Nik studied Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Technische Universität Wien, speaks German and English, and is a keen golfer.

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Thomas Schlossmacher

Director

Builder, operator and educator.

Thomas is a Director of Specialty Tokens.

Prior to Specialty Tokens, Thomas was CEO of Agentbase, a San Francisco–based managed agent platform, and CPO of New Software, a venture-backed revenue operations platform for ERP systems. Earlier, he worked at Corecam Family Office.

He is a builder, operator and educator who teaches online to more than 75,000 subscribers. Thomas studied Mandarin Chinese at the University of Ottawa, speaks German and English, and is a former track and field athlete.

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The practice behind them

  • Strategy & advisory

    Audits, roadmaps, and board-level briefings that turn AI ambition into a shippable plan.

  • Integration engineering

    Custom connectors and the MCP layer that wire AI into ERPs, CRMs, and legacy systems.

  • Agents & automation

    The agents and skills that run your workflows end-to-end on top of the integration layer.

  • Enablement & rollout

    Training, change management, and the production runs that make adoption stick.

FAQ

Common questions.

What does AI training for private equity firms cover?

Two tracks, both on the firm's own systems. The deal-team track covers screening inbound opportunities against the fund's thesis, answering portfolio questions from the firm's own data with sources, and drafting the factual sections of IC memos. The operations track covers reporting, reconciliations, capital-call preparation, and LP communications. Participants work with the AI tools the firm has approved, ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, connected to the fund's systems, and leave with working automations plus a ranked shortlist of processes worth automating next.

Do you train family offices and hedge funds as well?

Yes. The format is the same; the content adapts. Family offices typically focus on consolidated reporting, document-heavy workflows, and strict confidentiality, a context co-founder Thomas Schlossmacher knows first-hand from working at a family office. Hedge funds typically focus on research support and middle-office workflows. In each case the training runs on the firm's own systems, not on generic examples.

How is confidential fund data handled during the training?

The integration layer runs in the firm's own environment and connects only approved AI tools to its systems, following the access permissions the team already has. Deal flow, LP information, and portfolio data are not used to train public models. Reads are free; any write an agent prepares queues behind a named human approver and is logged. Compliance is welcome in the room, the format is designed to survive their questions.

Who teaches the sessions?

The founders of Specialty Tokens. Thomas Schlossmacher worked at Corecam Family Office and built revenue-operations software for ERP systems; Nik Redl built financial infrastructure and scaled products past a million users. Both build production AI systems for financial-operations teams with security in mind, the same people who deliver the firm's implementation work, not career trainers.

Where do you run AI trainings for private equity and finance in Europe?

Specialty Tokens is based in Vienna and runs AI trainings for investment firms across Europe, DACH, the UK, and the rest of the continent, on site or remote, in English or German. Typical clients are private equity firms, venture capital funds, family offices, hedge funds, and the fund-operations teams around them.

Train the fund on its own deal flow

Book a scoping call with our senior team. Tell us who needs to learn what, deal team, fund operations, or the family office, and we will shape the training around your systems.

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