Hello, World.

We built Ellis around a conviction I carried from more than a decade building companies in private markets: “Institutional” should describe how well a firm operates, not how much it can afford to spend on infrastructure.

Private credit has grown faster than any other asset class and even more so than the systems beneath it. The vast majority of Managers are still forced to operate across fragmented data, spreadsheets, service providers and manual workflows.

Ellis is changing that and leveling the “institutional” playing field. We are building the first-of-its-kind AI-native operating and intelligence platform for private credit, bringing a firm’s data, workflows and decisions into one trusted, source-verifiable foundation and then layering on unique agentic capabilities that drive Managers’ business to new heights.

Over the past year, we have built alongside numerous private-credit managers, solving real problems in live environments and helping their teams operate with greater speed, clarity and confidence.

Today is a meaningful milestone, but it is not an arrival.

It is our hello world.

Private credit is where we begin. The opportunity ahead is much larger. And we are just getting started.

This is the first of many posts sharing what we are building, what we are learning and where we believe the market is going.

For more on our launch, read the Forbes coverage here.