Why we built Romina Day

Why we built Romina Day

Romina Day builds AI agents for financial services, configured as teams that run the work of investment operations. They handle the complex, repeatable work that allocators, wealth platforms, banks and fund managers do every day, from document QA to NAV reconciliations to due diligence, in minutes rather than days, the firm's own way every time, with every figure traced to its source and the firm's own people signing off.

In brief

  • Investment operations still run on manual processes, and the workload compounds faster than teams can scale.
  • A model alone gives a convincing answer. It doesn't apply an institution's methodology across thousands of documents, or produce a complete audit trail.
  • MATES, our multi-agent teams, run one workflow at a time to the firm's own method, with an audit trail of every input, output and approval.
  • Start with one workflow. Add the next once the first has earned it.

David and I built a wealth and asset management business, took it public, and spent years automating the operations behind it. We understand firsthand the complexity, regulatory obligations and operational pressures that come with managing institutional assets.

Our CTO, Peter Quintas, brings decades of engineering experience, including early work in machine learning and AI, and building HIPAA-compliant emergency response technology for highly sensitive, regulated environments. His background is rooted in developing systems where security, governance, accountability and reliability are fundamental, not afterthoughts.

Together, we combined deep industry experience with the engineering expertise to deploy AI securely, govern its execution and scale it across institutional workflows. We've operated these businesses from the inside. We understand the decisions, regulatory obligations and operational complexity they face, and why AI must be governed, auditable and accountable at every step.

Documents arrive in dozens of formats across disconnected systems. Investment teams spend days on due diligence, operations teams chase reconciliation breaks, and compliance teams struggle to keep pace with growing volumes and regulatory obligations. Institutional knowledge sits with individuals, processes remain manual, and exceptions surface too late. As portfolios, products and reporting demands grow, the workload compounds faster than teams can scale.

AI was supposed to change that. Firms have invested heavily in models and copilots that can read documents, analyse information and generate impressive answers. But a convincing answer is not a production workflow. A model alone doesn't consistently apply an institution's methodology across thousands of documents, enforce permissions, route exceptions for approval or produce a complete audit trail of what was done and why. The result is promising prototypes that struggle to reach production, growing concerns around data security and agent control, and investments with little measurable return. For a one-off memo, a useful answer may be enough. For the work an institution cannot afford to get wrong, it isn't.

Three forces are now converging. First, AI models have become capable enough to interpret the complex, inconsistent documents and data that underpin institutional investment operations. Second, boards, regulators and auditors are demanding more than promising demonstrations. They want to know where sensitive data goes, who controls the agents, how decisions are verified and who remains accountable. Third, portfolios and operational demands continue to expand faster than the teams responsible for managing them. For the first time, the technology is capable of addressing this complexity at scale, but only if institutions can deploy it securely, govern its execution and measure the results.

So we built the layer. Romina Day is the intelligence layer for investment operations: AI agent teams that run your most complex, repeatable work, from reviews to reconciliations to reporting, configured to your methodology and delivered in minutes rather than days.

We call them MATES, our multi-agent teams. Each runs one workflow to your firm’s own method. The MATE reads; your team decides. The named reviewer still signs. What changes is that they sign with the record in front of them.

The MATES

Each MATE is ready-made and configured to your process, templates and thresholds, with no code. They run the work your teams do every day, not just at period end. You configure it, run it on one document or thousands, review the exceptions first with a link to the source, and every input, output and approval is retained.

How a MATE works in four steps: configure to your method, run on one document or thousands, review exceptions first, audit every input and approval
How a MATE works: configure, run, review, audit.

Document and Paperwork QA. Checks account paperwork, subscription documents and client forms against your rules as they arrive, so issues are caught before they reach the client or the regulator, not found in a sample after the fact.

NAV Oversight and Reconciliation. Reconciles NAVs, positions and transactions across administrators and counterparties, whatever format they arrive in, and traces each break back to its cause, so your team works the exceptions rather than the spreadsheet.

Manager and Product Due Diligence. Reviews manager and product materials against your due diligence framework, flags what has changed or is missing, and keeps the evidence behind every assessment.

DDQ and RFP Response Drafting. Drafts responses to due diligence questionnaires and RFPs from your approved source material, so every answer is consistent, sourced and ready for your team to review before release.

Adverse Media and Entity Monitoring. Screens managers, counterparties and related entities for adverse news and material changes, and surfaces what matters with its source attached.

AFS Review and Material Flagging. Reviews audited financial statements against your criteria, extracts and ties out the figures, and flags material items, so every manager is reviewed rather than a sample.

Most institutions start with the one that matters most to their team. Every MATE runs on the same governed platform, so adding the next is configuration, not a new project.

As we approach $100 billion in client assets under oversight and continue our international expansion across North America, the UK, the Cayman Islands and the Middle East, one thing has become increasingly clear: our message is resonating. Not just in the initial workflows institutions engage us to deliver, but in the additional opportunities they identify once they see the technology working within their own operations. For me, that expansion is the strongest validation of what we're building. Clients come to us to solve one problem and quickly recognise the potential to transform many more.

We've also been deliberate about what we're not. We're not another general-purpose AI platform searching for problems to solve, or a chatbot that leaves the user to verify its answers. We're not a consultancy building expensive prototypes from scratch, or a point solution designed to address one isolated problem. We deliver production-ready, governed workflows configured to each institution's own methodology, with source-linked evidence, clear accountability and human oversight. One implementation opens the door to dozens of workflows across the business. And we don't ask institutions to replace their existing systems, AI models or teams. We work alongside them, turning the processes they already depend on into something faster, more consistent and fundamentally more scalable.

Staying distinctive is the continuous work of saying no to the typical version of ourselves.

If you run a middle or back office, start with the workflow that costs you the most hours this quarter. Thirty minutes, one workflow, nothing to prepare, nothing to sign. We’ll open by asking you to walk us through one review, step by step.

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FAQs

What are AI agents in financial services?

AI agents in financial services are configured teams of AI models that run a firm's complex, repeatable workflows, such as document QA, NAV reconciliation and due diligence questionnaire drafting, to the firm's own method. In investment operations, every figure is traced to its source document and a named person approves the output.

How do AI agents work in finance teams?

Each agent in a team has a defined role: one extracts figures, one checks them against the firm's criteria, one ties them out, one writes up the exceptions. The team runs one workflow in four steps: configure to the firm's process and thresholds, run on one document or ten thousand, review exceptions first with a link to the source page, and retain every input, output and approval.

What is agentic AI in finance?

Agentic AI in finance means AI that carries out a multi-step task, rather than answering one question. For investment operations that is a whole review or reconciliation, run the same way every time. The rule-based steps, such as tie-outs and recalculations, stay rule-based; only the diagnosis reasons, and it shows its sources.

How is this different from a general-purpose AI assistant or copilot?

A general-purpose assistant answers one question well for one person. A MATE runs the same method across every document, for everyone in the firm, and keeps the record of every input, output, change and approval. Keep your assistant for the one-off memo; use MATES for the work you do a thousand times and cannot get wrong.

How do you govern and audit AI agents in financial services?

With defined controls over what each agent team may do, who can access, run and change it, which models it runs on and how its performance is monitored. The audit trail records every input, each step, the model used, the output and the reviewer's sign-off, so the evidence exists before an auditor or examiner asks for it.

Can AI answer due diligence questionnaires?

Yes. A MATE drafts responses to due diligence questionnaires and RFPs from the firm's approved source material, so every answer is consistent and sourced, and the team reviews each response before release. Work that takes days by hand is drafted in minutes.

How much time does AI save on reconciliation and review?

Work that takes days by hand runs in minutes. Because each MATE applies the firm's method the same way every time, teams can review every document rather than a sample, reconcile daily rather than periodically, and catch exceptions while there is still time to act.

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