Software for finance's most complex problems,
tailored to your firm by a forward deployed team.
Products
A solution built for each desk's own artifacts and its own definition of done. All of them stand on one operating system, included rather than licensed.
Market updates, pitch books, pool RFQs, transaction RFPs, refunding analyses, every one issuer-specific and every one built before a fee is earned. Starch produces the whole set from your own precedent and prior submissions, so those hours go back to the bankers.
The CIMs, board materials and diligence summaries never stop, and every one starts with someone hunting the drives for the closest precedent. Starch finds it and drafts in your firm's format, leaving the judgment to the people hired for it.
Debt is the raw material here, not the financing, so enterprise value has nothing to hold onto. The work runs on tangible book, regulatory capital and an earnback inside three years, and Starch ties every mark back to the filing it came from.
Everyone else charges a platform licence for this and leaves you to build the workflows. For us it is the floor, not the offering.
Ask the desk's documents anything, with sources.
Work run end to end, handed back for a person to sign.
Work that starts on a schedule or a trigger, not a reminder.
The portals the desk lives in, worked as a person would.
Precedent from past mandates, carried into the next one.
Calculations and schedules you can check line by line.
How we work
Nobody automates desk-specific work because nobody sits with the desk long enough to learn it. We do that first, then write the software.
A banker who has done the work and an engineer who builds it, staying until it runs.
Your own tenant, in your cloud or ours. Nothing is pooled, nothing trains a model.
SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, the CRM, the data room. They stay the systems of record.
Agents prepare and check. Anything client-facing waits for a named person.
Numbers come from the tool your firm validated. Conflicts block rather than resolve.
Every response leaves precedent behind. The desk's memory becomes an asset.
Questions
Horizontal platforms sell the toolkit and leave your team to build the workflows. The build never finishes, and the licence is charged either way.
We build the workflows for one desk and include the platform. You are buying finished work, not a toolkit.
A banker and an engineer assigned as a pair. The banker knows where the artifact goes wrong; the engineer builds against that, not a spec.
They stay until it runs on your own documents, which is where most deployments stall.
Single-tenant deployment, in your cloud or ours. Your data is never pooled with another firm's, and it is never used to train a model.
Access is scoped per person and per team, with an exportable audit trail.
Your team, always. Agents do the preparation and surface it for review. Nothing reaches a client, an issuer, or a regulator without a named person approving it.
Once routed for approval an artifact is read-only, so what is approved is what gets sent.
No, and we would rather you didn't. SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, the CRM, the data room, and the desk's own modelling software stay the systems of record.
That boundary is deliberate: client-facing numbers should come from the tool your firm validated.
Sometimes. The question we ask is whether your work reuses the same evidence graph and approval engine, or whether it needs a new one built from scratch.
If it is close, we can help quickly. If not, we will say so.
Watch manual finance desk work run end to end in minutes, then see how Starch could do the same for you.
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