Disclosure
Sample case study — based on internal pilot data with design partners under NDA. Firm name and identifying details are illustrative; the underlying time-savings figures reflect measured pilot performance. Real customer case studies replace this once written authorizations land.
Exhibit C — Sample Case Study
Hawthorne Capital:
K-1 quarter, in an afternoon.
A composite eight-advisor firm, 320 households, alts-heavy. K-1 season was the operational pinch point — until templates and workflows took it apart.
40 → 4 hrs
K-1 processing per quarter
90%
Reduction in re-keying time
12
Document types templated
2 hrs
Setup, end-to-end
Article I — Background
Hawthorne Capital is an eight-advisor RIA serving 320 households, with a meaningful alts allocation across private equity, real estate partnerships, and venture funds. Quarterly K-1 processing consumed roughly 40 hours of operations time per quarter — line items copied into household profiles, attached to tax workpapers, forwarded to CPAs.
The director of operations described it as "the one thing that puts us behind every April."
Article II — Implementation
- § 2.01Defined a single K-1 template covering the standard partnership fields — distributable share, capital account roll-forward, state allocations, qualified business income.
- § 2.02Wired a workflow: on
document.uploadedwith classifier label "K-1", run extraction → attribute write → notify the household's lead advisor. - § 2.03Setup was completed in roughly two hours during onboarding; the template extended naturally to eleven additional recurring document types over the following month.
Article III — Outcome
The undersigned reports
Quarterly K-1 processing time dropped from 40 hours to under 4 hours. The remaining time is review and exception handling, not data entry. The operations director redirected the recovered capacity to onboarding new households — three full additions in the following quarter, with no headcount added.
"The first time it just worked, I assumed something was missing. Then we checked it line-by-line against last quarter's spreadsheet and there was nothing to fix."
— Director of Operations, Hawthorne Capital (composite firm)
If K-1 season — or sub-doc season, or trust amendment season — is the bottleneck on your firm, we'd like to talk.
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