menlo consulting

Python & AI data engineering for family offices

Every number traced to its source.

We turn custodian statements, capital calls, fund reports and parallel spreadsheets into reconciled, automated reporting — built inside your own systems, alongside the platform you already use.

Works alongside
  • Addepar
  • Masttro
  • Asora
  • Fund administrators
  • Custodian files
  • Interactive Brokers
  • Excel

01 · Services

Fixed scope. Fixed price.

Every engagement is quoted before it starts. If you want us to keep it running afterwards: a monthly retainer from USD 3,500.

01 · 1–2 weeks · no data access

Data-flow & manual-hours map

Two working sessions with your COO and controller. You get a map of every data flow, the manual hours behind it and a fixed-price roadmap.

from USD 1,500

02 · 2–3 weeks · read-only

Reconciliation health check

A scoped sample — up to ten funds or accounts — rebuilt against source documents. Every difference explained, with its page reference.

from USD 6,000

03 · 4–6 weeks · recommended after the map

Private-markets control layer

Commitments, unfunded, capital-account roll-forwards and exceptions, reconciled every month on top of Addepar, Masttro, Asora or Excel.

from USD 15,000

Our standard

Every number traced to its source.

A reconciled figure is one you can follow back to the statement, the capital call, the page. We build the pipelines that keep it that way — every month, without the parallel spreadsheet.

02 · Why Menlo

Ten thousand ways that won't work. One that does.

Edison's staff standing outside the main laboratory building at Menlo Park, New Jersey, around 1880
Menlo Park, New Jersey, c. 1880. Edison's laboratory staff outside the main building. Public domain.

Menlo is named for Edison's laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey — the first place that turned invention into a method: build, test, set aside what doesn't hold, keep what does.

That is our mark. The grid is every path tried. The one yellow dot is the way that works: the reconciled figure, the verified source. It is also how we treat your data — one difference at a time, until the number holds.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."— attributed to Thomas Edison

03 · How we work

Four steps, and the number holds.

  1. 01

    Map

    Where every number comes from today, and who touches it.

  2. 02

    Reconcile

    Rebuild the figures from source and explain each difference.

  3. 03

    Automate

    Python and AI pipelines, with human review where it matters.

  4. 04

    Hand over

    Code, runbooks and documentation stay with you.

04 · Security

Your data stays in your house.

We work inside your environment, with your single sign-on and your rules. A security pack is available on request.

  • Your cloud or Microsoft 365 tenant, your SSO and MFA
  • Read-only access; never banking or custodian passwords
  • Synthetic data in development; no client data on our laptops
  • AI models run inside your cloud, or with your own key
  • Breach notice within 72 hours, written into the contract
  • Infrastructure as code and runbooks — no key-person lock-in

05 · Work

Works alongside your stack.

We integrate through your platform's API, with your credentials: Addepar, Masttro, Asora, fund administrators, custodian files, Interactive Brokers and, yes, Excel.

Selected work · 2026

Investor-notes platform for a regulated Mexican lender

Replaced a vendor system. Interest, payment and tax-withholding schedules were recomputed and matched to the cent against the vendor's full export before cut-over. Two-factor sign-in, role-based access, full audit log. Live since October 2026. Not a family office — the same reconciliation method is what we apply to capital accounts.

06 · Contact

Start with two sessions and a map.

No data access needed for the first step. Remote, in English or Spanish.