Planting seeds

Europe is home to more than 4 600 investment management firms, from venture capital to private equity to real estate portfolios, with EUR 34.4 trillion under management.

Small firms across Europe adopt AI at 17%, against 55% for the largest ones. Almost none of that is agents doing work. The tasks that eat a fund's week are still done by hand: drafting the quarterly LP update, chasing portfolio companies for their numbers, and assembling the investment committee pack. At the same time, the biggest banks are deploying agents with OpenAI and Anthropic across their whole staff. JP Morgan runs a platform on both companies' models for roughly 250 000 employees. Citi has started putting agentic tools in front of its people on Gemini and Claude.

How can smaller companies keep up? At janyl, we've been watching these collaborations closely, incorporating the industry's best practices into our financial agents. For example, your agent works inside walls we build before it says a word to anyone on your team, so it cannot read positions it has no business seeing or change a figure it has no business changing. Every action it takes is written down, so a year later you can show an LP or an auditor exactly what the agent did and when. And anything that moves money or leaves the building waits for a human to say yes.

At the same time, the superpower of an SME is its ability to act with agility and foster warmer relationships than larger firms. Agents built by janyl are grown to specifically nurture these capabilities and pursue this advantage to its fullest. As anecdotes, one fund has its agent draft the quarterly letter on the morning the quarter closes, in the partner's own voice, so it goes out while the number is still news. Another has it watch for the phrase "we are going to miss" across the portfolio's mail, so a partner is on the phone that afternoon rather than at the next board meeting. A third keeps the notes from every founder call it has ever sat in, so when a founder rings after two years the partner remembers the name of their co-founder's dog.

If you are a financial industry SME and are looking to enter the agentic economy, janyl has the track record to be your reliable partner. Reach out to know more.