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15Rock helps advisory, investor, corporate, and climate teams turn source material, private overlays, and methodology into ranked shortlists, Value Scans, benchmarks, and client-ready points of view — with every material claim traceable.

Example workpaper

Target prioritization workpaper

Review-ready

Score a broad universe and show why each target belongs in the shortlist.

Ranked shortlistValue ScanIdea backlogSource appendix
Universe
50–100 companies or accounts
Method
criteria, peer logic, assumptions
Export bundle
summary + slides + appendix
Evidence attached

“SG&A opportunity is material” is linked to public filings, peer tables, and the scoring assumptions used in the Value Scan.

Used by teams at

Built from hands-on use across investment firms, advisory and consulting teams, banks, and global enterprise teams.

A Big Four consulting firmA leading Canadian institutional investorGlobal banks & insurersGlobal enterprise & manufacturing teams

Why 15Rock

A reasoning layer built for work you have to defend.

Four guarantees that separate a reasoning layer from a chat box — read them as the standard every output is held to.

  1. 01

    Reason from your sources

    Bring filings, transcripts, data-room docs, private overlays, and your methodology into one private workspace — not a blank chat box.

  2. 02

    Cited, client-ready outputs

    Outputs ship as finished workpapers — each conclusion carrying its source and confidence — ready to put in front of a client, IC, or board.

  3. 03

    Your methodology, repeatable

    Encode your scoring logic, peer selection, and deliverable format once, then run it as a repeatable workflow — not a one-off prompt.

  4. 04

    Decision-grade & reviewed

    A human review loop and tamper-evident audit trail ship with every artifact, so your team can defend how the answer was produced.

How it works

Source → method → claim → reviewed output.

One path connects the universe, source evidence, scoring method, validation, reviewer notes, and exported workpapers — designed for inspection, not black-box summary.

01

Source map

Map sources and universe

02

Claim engine

Map claims to evidence

03

Workflow engine

Apply your methodology

04

Draft output

Generate cited workpaper

05

Reviewer loop

Human validates

06

Strategy pack

Export shortlist · brief · board pack

01

Ingest

Filings, transcripts, PDFs, data-room docs, and CRM context enter a private workspace.

02

Source map

Entities, dates, pages, tables, and source quality are organized before any narrative is drafted.

03

Claim engine

Assertions, KPIs, peer comparisons, risks, and contradictions are extracted and grouped by question.

04

Validation

Citations, math, peer relevance, source coverage, and conflicts are checked before the draft.

05

Output

Shortlist, Value Scan, benchmark, board pack, and source appendix export together.

06

Monitor

The source map keeps watching for new signals, portfolio changes, and follow-up questions.

Why not a chatbot

Serious strategy work needs more than a chat box.

Chat is useful for brainstorming. Advisory, investor, and strategy work requires traceability, repeatable methodology, source coverage, validation, and a finished client-ready artifact.

Forgets the source map

A chat thread cannot maintain a durable library of pages, tables, speakers, and prior internal notes.

Answers without audit trail

Teams need to inspect the evidence behind material claims, not trust a fluent summary.

Cannot compare consistently

A broad target universe, true-peer set, and executive summary require repeatable structure and normalization.

Misses firm methodology

Generic assistants do not know your scoring logic, peer-selection standard, or client deliverable format.

Drops contradictions

Defensible work depends on surfacing conflicting evidence instead of smoothing it into one clean answer.

Stops before the deliverable

The job is not an answer bubble. It is an editable summary, shortlist, benchmark, appendix, slide export, and validation log.

The output

See the artifact your team ships.

Not an answer bubble — a client-ready workpaper where every conclusion carries its source, confidence, and a claim-level audit trail.

Private workspace

ExampleCo Value Scan

Claim-level audit trail

Input

Source bundle

QA in progress
Targets screened50–100
Ideas prioritizedTop 5–10
Experimental ideasFlagged

Output package

  • Ranked shortlist assembled
  • Ideas scored by confidence and ease
  • Every claim linked to source

Strategy output preview

Client-ready Value Scan

Draft conclusionReady for review

The top opportunity is not generic growth; it is field productivity and SG&A discipline relative to true peers.

Public filingVerified

SG&A has grown faster than revenue for three periods, creating a clear cost-structure question.

Source 12 · table
Peer benchmarkCross-checked

The closest peer set shows leaner field operations and higher revenue per employee.

Source 18 · benchmark
Source evidence attached

“SG&A opportunity is material” is linked to public filings, peer tables, and the scoring assumptions used in the Value Scan.

Public filing · Peer benchmark · Method note

From the work

Real outcomes from real client work.

Advisory & Consulting

140 → 12

A Big Four consulting firm ranked ~140 organizations into a ~12-target priority shortlist.

Investors

Pilot → annual

A leading institutional investor expanded from a pilot to an annual engagement.

Private Credit & Lenders

Borrower-level

Outside-in, source-linked value scans across a direct lender's loan book — built without internal borrower data.

Asset Owners

Portfolio-wide

Source-linked ESG, climate, and risk screening across an institutional investor's portfolio — issuer by issuer.

Corporates

Site-by-site

Outside-in financial models for energy and industrial assets — built without internal company data.

Insurance

Peer-benchmarked

A leading life & health insurer's benchmarking, delivered against a defensible peer set — every comparison source-linked.

Climate & Sustainability

Macro → issuer

Repeatable decarbonization and physical-risk screening across a portfolio, every rating source-linked.

Trust architecture

Built for evidence, review, and accountability.

15Rock does not make the decision. It structures the evidence, assumptions, trade-offs, and draft artifacts so your team can defend how an answer was produced — to a partner, client, board, IC, or compliance reviewer.

Source ingestion & permissions

Filings, transcripts, PDFs, data-room docs, and internal memos enter a private workspace with granular access control — your data, your perimeter.

Source-linked claims

Every material assertion is mapped to the page, table, or transcript line it came from. Unsupported claims surface before review.

Human review loop

Analysts approve, flag, or rewrite at the claim level. Decisions are signed off by people — every action recorded against the evidence.

Tamper-evident audit trail

Every ingestion, citation, reviewer action, version, and export — captured and exportable alongside the artifact for IC, board, or compliance review.

Enterprise data handling

Encrypted in transit and at rest, SSO/SAML, MFA, and role-based access. Your data never trains shared models.

Exportable strategy artifacts

Ranked shortlists, Value Scans, benchmarks, board packs, and source appendices export as PDF, DOCX, or structured JSON — reproducible and defensible.

15Rock Research Desk · Advisory WorkflowFiled · 2026-05-27Rev 0115Rock Research

Bring one universe. Review one defensible shortlist.

Start with a contained workflow using your target universe, sector question, source library, and methodology. The pilot should prove whether the reasoning layer is strong enough for your advisory, strategy, or investment process.

Confidential workflow · source-linked claims · exportable workpapers

For advisory and strategy teams
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