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Reporting should be 30 minutes, not 5 hours

Most teams spend 5+ hours a week on stakeholder reporting that should take 30 minutes. We automate the pipeline behind it so the numbers are live, the documents are accessible, and your week gets its afternoon back.

The proven outcome

5 hrs/week → 45 minutes

Reporting-heavy operations team

Weekly reporting time

5 hrs → 45 min

Stakeholder update cycle

Live

Document access

Self-serve

Where reporting time actually goes

Stakeholder updates rebuilt from scratch each cycle instead of pulled from a single source of truth

Performance tracking scattered across spreadsheets, email threads, and the one analyst who knows how it all fits together

Document access handled by request, so every stakeholder pings someone for the latest version instead of self-serving from a portal

Distribution and capital call workflow: wire instructions assembled by hand, payment confirmations chased one investor at a time, and K-1 questions answered case-by-case

Reporting-heavy operations team

We took a reporting pipeline that consumed 5 hours a week (pulling data, reconciling it across tools, formatting the update, and sending it out) down to 45 minutes. The team still reviews and signs off on every report. They just stopped doing the assembly work by hand. Investor portals are one use case we delivered; the same pattern works for any recurring stakeholder update.

Proof

The 2-minute overview

  • Stakeholder updates: templated, auto-populated from live data, sent on a cadence you control
  • Performance tracking: dashboards that pull directly from your systems instead of a weekly copy-paste
  • Document access: a self-service portal so stakeholders stop asking your team for files. This is one of many possible use cases, not the only one

Relevant next step

Review Merkra's portfolio, then tell us where your workflow is leaking. We'll reply with next steps if it's a fit.

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5 hrs → 45 min

Weekly reporting time

Live

Stakeholder update cycle

Self-serve

Document access

Want reporting back to 30 minutes?

Tell us how your team builds reports today: the source systems, the spreadsheets, the templates. Takes 60 seconds. If it's a fit, we'll reply with which pieces would automate cleanly.

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