The Private Markets Toolkit

Allocate. Diligence.Construct. Stress.

Four working tools built on one published methodology. Free, and built for the advisor who has to explain the fund, not just sell it.

27Years in private markets
$4.7B+Raised across wirehouse, IBD, RIA
4Free tools
2Published books
01 / The tools

The books give you the method. These run it.

Every tool is free. Two run in your browser. Two run on Claude.

01 · Before a dollar moves

The Ten Prompts Diligence Engine

Name a fund. The engine pulls the filings and quarterly commentary, runs the ten diligence progressions from the book, and returns a citation-anchored report: flags in red, a plain-English briefing for the client conversation, and a saved PDF. Private drawdown funds work too, so upload the PPM and LPA.

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Opens a free public artifact on Claude. Report depth depends on the account you are signed into: free and standard plans run fewer searches and can hit limits partway through a long fund. Pro returns the full report.

02 · Before you buy

The Allocation Lab

Model an alternatives sleeve against a traditional portfolio. Objective presets, sliders for five asset classes, side-by-side return, volatility, Sharpe, and max drawdown, plus growth of $100,000 and how each mix rode past market events like 2008 and 2022. Built on illustrative asset-class history, with the honest caveats the fact sheets skip.

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03 · After it adds up

Portfolio Lens

Add two to five funds with their weights and the engine writes the look-through: what the client actually owns by asset type and geography, how the funds move together including shared borrowers and stacked exit doors, and where the gaps are. Four funds in, one answer out.

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Lens mode lives inside the Diligence Engine. Open the engine and switch modes.

04 · Before the next crisis

The Portfolio Stress Lab

Score the wrapper, not just the market. Build a mixed public and private portfolio from tickers, CSV, or PPM language and get a Structure Score across market, credit, liquidity, leverage, opacity, and concentration. Replay 2000, 2008, and 2020, test a cash need against real liquidity terms, compare current against proposed, and export four client-ready briefs.

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02 / One chart worth a client meeting

What low correlation actually buys you.

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4 6 8 10 12 14 16 -0.25 0.25 0.5 0.75 1 ZERO CORRELATION Transportation & leasing Private real estate Infrastructure Venture capital Private credit Private equity Absolute-return hedge funds Directional hedge funds Global 60/40 TRAILING 10-YR CORRELATION TO A 60/40 PORTFOLIO → 10-YR ANNUALIZED RETURN %
Real assets Private markets Hedge funds 60/40 reference Bubble size = distribution yield

Illustrative asset-class estimates, not index performance or a forecast. Correlations and returns are approximations used to show relative positioning. Verify against source documents before using with a client.

03 / The method

The tools came out of two books.

Cover of The Average Is Not the Offer by Peter Svach
New · July 2026

The Average Is Not the Offer

Due diligence and allocation strategy for modern private markets

A professional handbook for advisors and CIOs. Private credit, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, secondaries, and hedge funds: how each vehicle works, where each one hides its risks, and how to build the allocation. Every chapter closes with ten AI-ready diligence prompts. The engine above runs them live.

Cover of Shortly After the Beginning, There Was Capital by Peter Svach

Shortly After the Beginning, There Was Capital

A narrative history · Private markets explained

Before Wall Street. Before Silicon Valley. Three thousand years of private capital, from Phoenician merchant ships to today's AI-powered platforms, and why that history is an investor's edge.

Peter Svach
04 / Who built this

Peter Svach

I have spent 27 years in private markets connecting investors with private equity, private credit, real assets, and infrastructure, and have raised more than $4.7B across wirehouse, independent broker-dealer, and RIA channels. I wrote the two books above, and I built the toolkit.

05 / In person

From the stage.

I moderate and speak on private markets panels for advisor and allocator audiences: due diligence, allocation strategy, and where the industry is headed.

Peter Svach moderating a private markets panel at a Carmo Companies event
Carmo CompaniesModerating the private markets panel
Peter Svach on a panel at the Quincy Wells Conference in Melbourne, Florida
Quincy Wells ConferenceOn the panel, Melbourne, Florida
06 / Reading

What I read

The ten publications and newsletters I would keep, the research desks at Blackstone, KKR, Apollo, and Hamilton Lane, and my ten podcasts.

07 / Newsletter

The Private Capital Letter

Occasional notes on private markets: what history teaches, what the industry is missing, and what is worth reading this week.

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