Arch, a company positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for private markets, has unveiled a new offering called Arch Investment Research, taking its technology beyond portfolio monitoring and into the due diligence stage that comes before an investment is made.
The new tool is aimed at investment teams working within registered investment advisors (RIAs), single-family offices and institutional investors. It lets users assess potential opportunities against criteria they set themselves, bringing greater structure and automation to what is often a manual diligence process. Investment Research pulls key terms from offering documents and highlights points that warrant closer review. Every extracted term can be traced back to its original source document for auditing purposes.
Once a deal closes, the diligence materials stay attached to the investment. This gives allocators continued insight into the agreed terms and the original investment thesis for as long as they hold the position.
According to Arch, a number of RIAs and family offices already use the product, and some have reduced the time spent on diligence by up to 50% for each opportunity. The firm added that early partners have collectively saved thousands of hours because the platform pinpoints which analyses deserve priority when progressing a deal.
Before this launch, Arch concentrated on the period after capital has been committed. Its platform automates tasks such as gathering documents, extracting data, handling capital call workflows and generating portfolio insights. It covers private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate and other private assets.
Customers can buy Investment Research on its own or combine it with Arch’s wider set of tools for alternatives data management, capital calls and reporting. The company integrates with client systems through APIs and plans to apply the same approach as AI becomes embedded in allocators’ everyday work. The aim is to let customers query reliable private markets data within their existing systems and large language models to reach decision-ready intelligence.
Arch co-founder and CEO Ryan Eisenman said, “The private market experience shouldn’t be fragmented across diligence, data, workflows, and portfolio monitoring. Arch is expanding our private markets expertise to support pre-investment diligence, allowing investment teams to compare private market opportunities against their own criteria to make smarter allocation decisions.”
Clearstead managing director, investments Mike McLelland said, “Arch’s due diligence tools reduced my workload on a single deal by two hours by automatically surfacing and prioritizing the critical issues I actually needed to dig into. Arch also gives me high-quality comparative analysis when I’m evaluating multiple funds, and it helps my team walk into introductory calls with better questions for fund managers by front-loading the discovery process.”
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