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A client that paid 38 million in fees over three years and gave the bank five percent of it looks active in the CRM and is failing on every measure that involves the wallet. AI analytics reads the revenue, wallet estimate and CRM files, and answers the sector head's question: where is our share low, and who has not seen the CFO.

Ask it in your own words

These are the questions investment banks ask. Each one maps to a measure our tools compute from your files. The AI model chooses the measure and explains the result; the arithmetic is done by our code, and every total is checked.

The questionThe measure behind itWhat comes back
Where is our share of the client's fee wallet lowest?Share of client fee walletFees earned over estimated fees paid, by client and product, ranked by the gap in dollars.
Which pitches turned into mandates?Pitch to mandate conversionMandates won over pitches made, by sector team and product, with the clients pitched repeatedly and never won.
Which large wallets have not been covered recently?Coverage recency, wallet-weightedDays since senior contact, weighted by wallet, with the largest untouched clients.
Do we know the right people at each client?Senior contact breadthDistinct senior contacts met per client against the norm, with the clients where all contact is below board level.
Where is balance sheet committed without fee return?Return on balance sheet committedFees over lending committed by client, with the relationships below the hurdle.
Which clients use us for one product where peers use three?Products per client against normProducts per client against the sector norm, with the candidates and the wallet at stake.

A conversation, with the figures

Every figure below was computed by a tool from the rows and checked before it was shown. The lines sum; the percentages match; each line opens to the rows that make it.

Where are we under-earning against the client wallet?

The gap between estimated fee wallets and fees earned is $195.0m across 3 sector teams, counting only clients where we hold a relationship. Industrials team carries $96.0m, 49% of the gap.

Industrials team$96.0m49% of the total
Consumer team$61.0m31% of the total
Healthcare team$38.0m19% of the total
The 3 lines sum to$195.0m0 unexplained

Which industrials clients?

3 clients account for $84.0m of the $96.0m gap in the Industrials team, 88% of it. At each, the bank has balance sheet committed, has pitched more than three times, and has not met the chief financial officer in the last six months.

Meridian Industrial Group$36.0m5% wallet share; 150m committed; 4 pitches, 0 mandates
Calder Engineering$29.0m8% wallet share; CFO last seen 11 months ago
Vantage Materials$19.0mone product; peers hold three
These 3 are$84.0m88% of Industrials team

What does the sector head do with this?

Reset the coverage plan on the three: a CFO meeting owned by a managing director, a product plan that matches the wallet, and a decision on whether the committed balance sheet stays.

Industrials managing directorsSecure CFO meetings at Meridian, Calder and VantageThis quarter
Head of coverageReview wallet share and recency monthly by sectorMonthly
Capital committeeRevisit the Meridian commitment against fee returnNext committee
Where is our share of the client's fee wallet lowest?Which pitches turned into mandates?Which large wallets have not been covered recently?Do we know the right people at each client?

The measures behind the answers

Each measure has one formula, one source and one meaning. They are computed per coverage officer and sector team and in total, and every one carries an identity that must hold before it is shown.

MeasureFormulaFromWhat it tells you
Share of client fee walletBank's fees from the client ÷ client's estimated total fees paid, trailing 3 years, by productRevenue ledger; third-party fee dataWhether a client is a success or a missed opportunity
Pitch to mandate conversionPitches mandated to the bank ÷ pitches decided, by sector team and productPitch logWhich teams pitch well, and which pitch often
Coverage recency, wallet-weightedWallet of clients with a senior touch within cadence ÷ total covered walletCRM; wallet estimatesWhether the largest wallets are being seen
League table position against client walletBank's rank by fees among its covered clients, by sector and productFee data; coverage listWhere the bank ranks where it matters
Senior contact breadthDistinct C-suite and board contacts with activity in 12 months, per clientCRMRelationships resting on one person
Products per client against normProducts with revenue in 3 years ÷ norm for client typeRevenue ledgerSingle-product relationships
Revenue concentrationTop twenty clients' share of fees; largest single clientRevenue ledgerDependence on a few mandates
Pipeline: mandated and pitchedExpected fees by stage and expected close, with age in stageDeal pipelineWhat next year's revenue rests on
Transition continuityDays from coverage change to first senior touch; wallet share before and afterCRM; coverage historyClients lost in handovers
Return on balance sheet committedTotal client revenue ÷ capital committed to the clientRevenue ledger; lending bookLending that did not bring the ancillary business

Each measure is worked through, with the export it comes from and what to drop, in Coverage KPIs for investment banking.

What the AI model does, and what our tools do

The AI model chooses the measure

From your question and the measures declared for investment banking, the model picks the one that answers it, and the period and comparison the question implies.

Our tools do the arithmetic

Deterministic code reads the rows, computes the measure, and checks the identities below. The same question on the same data gives the same answer, every time.

The AI model explains, and cites

The AI model writes the sentence around the result, naming the coverage officer or account behind it. It states no figure that is not in the result, and every figure links to its rows.

The identities that must hold

Wallet shareClient fees by product sum to the revenue ledger
Pitch conversionPitches = mandated to us + mandated elsewhere + not proceeded + open
CoverageEvery covered client has one lead officer
ReturnClient revenue and capital tie to the finance totals

What it reads

The exports investment banks already produce. Column names are mapped once and the mapping is reused. A file is the way in; scheduled delivery and connections to your systems come with the plan, and every source is listed here.

  • Revenue ledger
  • Third-party fee data
  • Pitch log
  • CRM
  • Wallet estimates
  • Fee data
  • Coverage list
  • Deal pipeline
  • Coverage history
  • Lending book

Who owns each answer

An answer is a list with an owner and a cadence, or it is a chart nobody works.

MeasuresOwnerCadence
Recency; senior contact breadth; transitionsSector heads; head of coverageMonthly
Pitch conversion; pipelineSector and product headsMonthly
Wallet share; rank among clients; products per clientHead of coverageQuarterly
Return on balance sheet; concentrationHead of coverage with finance and creditQuarterly

Questions investment banks ask about AI analytics

Where does the wallet estimate come from?

From the file you provide, whether that is a vendor's fee estimate, a public deal-fee model or your own. The tool never estimates a wallet itself. Fees earned over the estimate is computed by client and product, and the page says which estimate it used and when it was dated.

Why weight recency by wallet?

Because a coverage report that counts meetings treats a client paying two million and one paying forty million alike. Weighting days since senior contact by wallet puts the large, unseen client at the top, which is where the sector head's attention belongs. The unweighted figure is shown beside it.

Can it read our CRM without exposing client names?

Yes. On Enterprise, client names are replaced with identifiers before anything leaves your side, and the mapping stays with you. The tool works on the identifiers; the sector head reads the results with the names restored on their own screen.

How does it treat balance sheet?

As a fact to set beside fees: lending committed by client from the credit file, fees earned from the revenue file, and the ratio between them against the hurdle you set. Whether a commitment is strategic is a committee decision; the tool makes sure the figures are on the table.

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