AI in the Investment Firm – Ben Harrison (EP.522)
Intapp President of Industries Ben Harrison joins Ted Seides to discuss the rise of 'firm AI' and agentic automation across private equity, legal, and professional services firms. Harrison explains how contextual agents are transforming deal sourcing, LP onboarding, and junior investment staffing. He also reflects on lessons from DealCloud's merger with Intapp and the playbook for scaling vertical enterprise software in the AI era.
- Public private equity firms are holding intake classes flat or cutting junior analyst and associate seats as software takes over core analytical tasks. Read →
- Ben Harrison separates frontier models like Claude and ChatGPT from firm AI designed to execute institutional workflows. Read →
- DealCloud and Intapp merged eight and a half years ago by uniting front-office origination tools with back-office risk management systems. Read →
- Ben Harrison, President of Industries at Intapp and former DealCloud leader, argues that simple natural language search fails to build a competitive edge in private equity origination. Read →