--- title: "Blog | By The People Tech" description: "Every piece opens with the view we hear most often, in the words our clients use, and then sets out what the work showed instead." url: https://bythepeople.tech/insights --- Blog “Where are you seeing this work?” # We write about what we see inside investment firms. A small number of pieces each year, each one drawn from an engagement. We write when what we observed taught us something we did not know before, and we publish what we learned. Every piece opens with the view we hear most often, in the words our clients use, and then sets out what the work showed instead. ## Announcements Announcement 12 October 2026 ### [By The People Technologies joins Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network](/announcements/by-the-people-technologies-joins-claude-partner-network) BTP joins at the Select tier, with a team trained and certified by Anthropic to take Claude into the work of alternative investment firms. ## Questions buyers ask AI across the portfolio 3 November 2026 ### [How to Roll Out AI Across Your Portfolio Companies](/insights/ai-rollout-portfolio-companies) How a private equity operating partner should roll out AI across portfolio companies: shared rules first, then one measured process at a time. AI for investor relations 3 November 2026 ### [AI Use Cases for Investor Relations at a PE Firm](/insights/ai-use-cases-investor-relations-private-equity) The AI use cases that suit investor relations at a private equity firm, on your own LP documents, and who can set them up for your IR team. AI deal sourcing for VC 27 October 2026 ### [AI Deal Sourcing for Venture Capital Firms](/insights/ai-deal-sourcing-venture-capital) How venture capital firms use AI for deal sourcing, from signal platforms to models reading decks, and how a small VC team starts on its own thesis. Claude for due diligence 27 October 2026 ### [How to Use Claude for Financial Due Diligence on a Deal](/insights/claude-financial-due-diligence) How a private equity deal team uses Claude for financial due diligence: one project per deal, a cited first pass on the data room, and the team's checks. Best AI tools for PE 22 October 2026 ### [Best AI Tools for Private Equity, and Who Rolls Them Out](/insights/best-ai-tools-private-equity) The AI tools private equity firms buy, by layer, from each vendor's own pages, and when a New York PE firm needs outside help to get its people using them. Claude for Excel 22 October 2026 ### [Claude for Excel: LP Reporting and Fund Reconciliations](/insights/claude-excel-lp-reporting) Where a CFO at a private equity, credit or hedge fund starts with Claude for Excel on LP reporting and reconciliations: setup, controls, the first workbook. Big Four alternative 22 October 2026 ### [KPMG's Anthropic Alliance and a Smaller PE Alternative](/insights/kpmg-anthropic-alternative-private-equity) KPMG's Anthropic alliance aims its private equity work at portfolio companies. How a New York PE firm finds a smaller Claude partner for the fund itself. Claude or ChatGPT for our firm? 21 October 2026 ### [Claude vs ChatGPT for a Private Equity Firm](/insights/claude-vs-chatgpt-private-equity) Claude or ChatGPT for a private equity firm: documents, data controls, admin, Office add-ins and market data compared from each vendor’s own pages. Which AI firm for our fund? 21 October 2026 ### [Choosing an AI Consultant for a Hedge Fund](/insights/choose-ai-consulting-firm-hedge-fund) How a hedge fund should choose an AI consulting firm: the kinds of firm, what to ask, the red flags, and how to judge a forward deployed engineer. Claude training for the deal team 21 October 2026 ### [Claude Workshops for Private Equity Teams](/insights/claude-workshop-private-equity) What a Claude workshop for a private equity deal team covers on CIMs, IC memos and portfolio reports, how long it takes, who attends and how to judge one. ## The archive “Counsel has been through the debt documents.” ### [Counsel read the credit agreement. The exposure is usually in the rest.](/insights/lme-review) Liability management exercises are won and lost on a few words in the debt contracts. Most reviews read the main agreement closely and skim everything around it, which is where those words tend to be. Tim Miner 21 October 2026 The standard ## Three conditions, all required. Not an editorial policy for its own sake. It is why the archive is short, and why we can stand behind each piece in it. * It came from a room we were in Nothing about the industry in general. If we were not sitting with the people it happened to, we have nothing to add that you could not read elsewhere. * The conventional view goes first In its own words, not a version constructed to be easy to argue with. If we cannot state the other position in a sentence someone would actually say, we do not understand it yet. * We say what we used to think Every piece exists because something we believed turned out to be wrong. The prior position stays in the piece. It is the evidence that the new one cost us something. ## Tell us what you are seeing. If your experience differs from what we have written, we would like to hear it. [hello@bythepeople.tech](mailto:hello@bythepeople.tech) [Or book 30 minutes with Tim](https://calendly.com/timminer-1/chat-with-tim)