What does
manual analysis
cost your team?

Answer four questions about your team's size, compensation, and workflow. We'll model the labor-cost savings from replacing manual tasks with PRIE and show you a conservative, auditable business case.

ReN PRIE · Fixed price
$20k
No tech setup or data migration required
Operational from day one
Annual filings, market data & news coverage
ODD / IDD, benchmarking & IC dossier generation
Continuous monitoring between review cycles

ROI Calculator

ReN PRIE — ROI Calculator v1 · 2026-05-11
01Team
02Salary
03Tasks
04Volume
05Results
How many analysts on your investment team?

Include analysts directly involved in portfolio research, due diligence, filing review, and ongoing risk monitoring — not operations, compliance, or support staff.

Solo analyst
Generalist covering end-to-end research and portfolio monitoring
2–3 analysts
Boutique RIA, family office, or small asset manager
4–6 analysts
Mid-size family office or growing asset manager
7–10 analysts
Institutional investment operations or multi-strategy
Analyst team sizing based on typical structures at RIAs, family offices, and institutional asset managers. Source: Cerulli Associates 2023 Asset Manager Survey.
Average analyst total compensation?

Select the band that best reflects fully loaded annual compensation — base salary plus bonus. This converts analyst hours into real dollar cost.

Entry level
$25,000 – $30,000 / year
Junior research assistants, entry-level support analysts · ~$13.22 / hr
Associate
$30,000 – $50,000 / year
Research analysts, associate portfolio managers · ~$19.23 / hr
Analyst
$50,000 – $80,000 / year
Senior analysts, portfolio associates, risk specialists · ~$31.25 / hr
Senior analyst
$80,000 – $150,000 / year
Investment analysts (BLS median $101,350); risk specialists (BLS median $106,000) · ~$55.29 / hr
Lead / VP
$150,000 – $250,000 / year
Lead analysts, VPs of research, portfolio risk directors · ~$90.14 / hr
Managing Director
$250,000+ / year (fully loaded)
Senior directors, MDs, senior PMs with significant bonus · ~$144.23 / hr
Salary benchmarks: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics May 2024 (SOC 13-2051, 13-2054). CFA Institute 2023 Investment Professional Compensation Report. Upper bands include estimated performance bonus. Hourly rate = annual salary ÷ 2,080 working hours.
Which tasks does your team perform manually?

Select all that apply. PRIE-assisted times include mandatory human review — PRIE supports analyst judgment; it does not replace it.

Filing reviews & ODD / IDD reports iReading and extracting structured data from annual filings and fund disclosures. Benchmark: 5–8 hrs. PRIE-assisted time includes 45 min for human review of generated output.
Manual: 6 hrs per portfolio  ·  PRIE-assisted: ~45 min (incl. review)
−88%
Benchmarking & peer comparison iComparing holdings across financial, governance, factor, and risk metrics vs. peer cohorts. Benchmark: 6–10 hrs. PRIE time includes 1 hr for analyst validation.
Manual: 8 hrs per portfolio  ·  PRIE-assisted: ~1 hr (incl. review)
−88%
Ongoing risk surveillance iMonitoring filings, market data, and news for style drift and emerging risks between formal reviews. PRIE time is reviewing flagged items only.
Manual: 3 hrs per review cycle  ·  PRIE-assisted: ~30 min (flagged items)
−83%
Portfolio-level risk & exposure scoring iAggregating holding-level scores into a portfolio risk view. PRIE generates the scores; 30 min is for analyst validation and override review.
Manual: 4 hrs per portfolio  ·  PRIE-assisted: ~30 min (validation)
−88%
News flow & earnings monitoring iDaily scanning of earnings calls, press releases, filings, and market news. ReN pilot benchmark: analysts spend avg. 1.5 hrs/day on unstructured data. PRIE reduces this to reviewing AI-generated digests (~15 min/day).
Manual: 1.5 hrs / day per analyst  ·  PRIE-assisted: ~15 min/day (digest review)
−83%
IC dossier & report preparation iCompiling citation-backed research packs for investment committee review. PRIE generates the dossier; 1 hr is for analyst review, editing, and sign-off.
Manual: 5 hrs per report  ·  PRIE-assisted: ~1 hr (review & edit)
−80%
Task time benchmarks from ReN pilot workflow data (2024–2025), cross-referenced with McKinsey Global Institute (2023) and Deloitte Asset Management Research (2022). PRIE-assisted times include human review — PRIE does not replace analyst judgment, compliance sign-off, or fiduciary oversight.
Portfolio volume & review frequency

Set how many portfolios your team reviews annually and how often each is formally reviewed. Both multiply analyst hours — and your savings potential.

Annual portfolios reviewed
25portfolios / yr
550100150200
Review cycles per year iHow many formal reviews each portfolio receives per year. Annual = 1, semi-annual = 2, quarterly = 4, monthly = 12. Industry average: 4× (Preqin, 2023).
4× / year
Annual (1×)Semi-ann. (2×)Quarterly (4×)Monthly (12×)
Manual hrs / year iTotal analyst hours across all selected tasks, all team members, all portfolios × all review cycles per year.
across selected tasks & team
Est. annual labor cost
at selected compensation band
Preqin Investor Survey 2023: institutional portfolios reviewed 4–6× per year on average. News monitoring annualised at 240 working days × team headcount.
Your ROI Estimate · ReN PRIE
Conservative · Labor Cost Model · v1
Estimated Annual ROI
%
VS
Payback Period
Manual labor cost
Annual cost of selected tasks at full manual rate
PRIE-assisted total cost
Review time remaining after PRIE + $20K annual fee
Net annual savings
Conservative labor cost reclaimed after PRIE investment
ROI formula applied
ROI = (Manual labor costPRIE-assisted labor cost$20K fee) ÷ $20K fee × 100
PRIE-assisted labor cost = remaining human review hours × hourly rate. Both scaled by team size, portfolio volume, and review frequency.
Cost comparison — manual vs PRIE-assisted
Manual analyst work
PRIE-assisted (review only)
ReN PRIE fee ($20K)
Hours reclaimed by task
Manual hours / yr
PRIE-assisted hours / yr
Task-by-task breakdown
TaskManual hrs / yrLabor costPRIE hrs / yrHrs saved

Investment teams don't buy automation on hours saved alone. The strategic case rests on risk avoidance, decision velocity, and the ability to scale oversight without scaling headcount. The value drivers below are qualitative — not included in the labor model, by design.

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Risk avoidance

Earlier detection of hidden exposure

PRIE continuously monitors filings, disclosures, and market data between formal review cycles. A single missed risk event can cost multiples of a year's PRIE fee in remediation, client loss, or regulatory exposure.

Decision velocity

Faster IC turnaround

IC-ready dossiers in under an hour versus days means your team can respond to market events, manager changes, or mandate reviews faster than peers working manually.

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Scalable capacity

Monitor more without hiring

Manual processes typically limit active monitoring to largest holdings. PRIE enables continuous coverage across the full portfolio — surfacing issues in smaller positions that often go unmonitored.

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Audit readiness

Defensible, traceable diligence

Every PRIE output is citation-backed and source-linked. Low-confidence or uncited outputs are flagged for human review — not presented as fact. Designed to support documentation and adviser review workflows.

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Client retention

Better reporting, deeper relationships

Hours freed from document parsing return to client conversations, IC debate, and strategy. Institutional clients expect structured, consistent reporting — PRIE enables that without expanding headcount.

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Fiduciary quality

Consistent process across all holdings

Manual workflows produce variable-quality diligence depending on analyst bandwidth. PRIE applies the same structured analysis to every portfolio and cycle — reducing inconsistent treatment.

Note on quantifying risk value: The cost of a missed risk event is highly firm-specific and depends on portfolio size, mandate type, client concentration, and regulatory context. ReN does not assign a dollar value to avoided risk in this calculator. If you would like to model a scenario-specific risk case, bring it to your demo call.
Methodology & assumptions
ROI formula

ROI = (Manual labor cost − PRIE-assisted labor cost − $20,000) ÷ $20,000 × 100. Manual = task hours × (salary ÷ 2,080) × team × volume × cycles. Assisted = PRIE review hours × same rate. Net savings = manual − assisted − $20K.

Salary & hourly rate

Hourly rate = annual compensation ÷ 2,080 (52 wks × 40 hrs). Bands from BLS OES May 2024 (SOC 13-2051, 13-2054) and CFA Institute 2023 Compensation Survey. Upper bands include estimated bonus.

Manual task hours

Filing reviews (5–8 hrs), benchmarking (6–10 hrs), surveillance (2–4 hrs), portfolio scoring (3–5 hrs), IC reports (4–6 hrs) are midpoint estimates from ReN pilot workflow data (2024–2025), cross-referenced with McKinsey (2023) and Deloitte (2022).

PRIE-assisted hours

Remaining human time after PRIE: filings 45 min, benchmarking 1 hr, surveillance 30 min, portfolio scoring 30 min, news digest 15 min/day, IC report 1 hr. Conservative estimates including analyst review, validation, and sign-off.

News monitoring

Annualised at 240 working days × team headcount. Manual: 1.5 hrs/day per analyst. PRIE-assisted: 15 min/day for digest review. Source: ReN pilot data. Consistent with McKinsey (2023): 1.2–1.8 hrs/day on unstructured data.

Review frequency

Industry average: 4× per year per portfolio (Preqin Investor Survey 2023). Surveillance and news monitoring are continuous — not multiplied by cycle count.

What this model does not include: cost of missed risk events, opportunity cost of delayed IC decisions, team retention effects, compliance or legal review costs, data licensing costs (included in PRIE fee), or onboarding time (zero — PRIE operates from day one).

Compliance note: PRIE is designed to support auditability, documentation, and adviser review workflows. It is not a substitute for legal counsel, compliance review, or fiduciary judgement. Citations and source links are provided for all outputs; low-confidence items are flagged for human review.
Institutional-grade risk intelligence and due diligence — see it live on your portfolio.
We run PRIE live on a portfolio manager you choose — 20 minutes, your portfolio, a fully traceable IC-ready dossier returned on the call. No setup. No integration. No obligation.
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