Grow market share.Slash your cost of client acquisition.
Starch turns the RFPs, RFQs, pitch decks, and research that eat your bankers' week into AI-native workflows, so they spend their time on the relationships that win mandates.
Backed byWonder Ventures·Night Capital
The problem
Your win rate is set by relationships. Your week is spent on everything else.
Mandates are won on the strength of your relationship with the issuer. But the week disappears into RFPs, pitch decks, and research: hours not spent with the client who decides the deal.
Today's solutions fall short
Nothing on the market automates the banker workflow itself.
Your team has the data tools and the AI subscriptions. The pitch still gets assembled by hand.
What you use today
What it does well
Where it falls short
General AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot)
Fast drafting, summarization, and Q&A on public information
Can't touch MNPI, your deal pipeline, or your compliance perimeter. No memory of your deals.
DBC, Ipreo, Lumesis, BondLink
Market data and analytics
A data layer, not a workflow layer. Bankers still assemble the pitch by hand.
Internal solutions (pitchbook/RFQ/RFP database)
Consolidates information
Has to be manually maintained. No easy querying across the database.
Junior bankers
Analytics, asset creation
Capacity-bound. Turnover erases institutional memory every 18 months.
What Starch does
Starch does the prep. Your bankers review and sign off.
Starch connects to the stack your team already runs on, from email and your CRM to drives, past pitches, RFPs, EMMA, and Bloomberg, and turns the recurring, knowledge-heavy work into AI-native workflows you run with a plain-language query.
01
Connects to your stack
Email, CRM, drives, past pitches, RFPs, EMMA, and Bloomberg. Keep the systems your team already runs on. No rip-and-replace.
02
Runs on plain language
Drive the work with a simple query. Starch drafts the RFP, the deck, and the research from your firm's precedent and house style.
03
Bankers stay in control
Starch does the prep and surfaces it for review. Bankers sign off, and every action is logged for compliance and supervisory review.
What we automate for your bankers
The recurring work that gates your pitch capacity.
Coverage banking is where the prep is heaviest, so it is where we start.
01
RFP & RFQ responses
First-draft responses to transaction RFPs and pool RFQs, written against your firm's win themes and prior winning submissions. Your banker edits and sends.
02
Pitch decks
First-draft pitch books from the issuer name, sector, and deal type, built on your house style and comparable deals.
03
Research & monitoring agent
An always-on agent that tracks your coverage universe for issuer news, board actions, and disclosures, and surfaces new RFPs and RFQs the moment they post, so your team gets there first.
How we work
Agents do the work. Your bankers just steer.
From the moment an RFP drops, a team of agents trained on public finance does the prep. Your bankers come in only to steer, with a reviewer agent at their side the whole way.
1
Agent
Monitor your issuers
We continuously track your coverage universe for issuer news, board actions, and new opportunities.
2
Agent
Flag the RFP or RFQ
The moment one drops, Starch flags it to the senior banker so the team gets there first.
3
Agent
Pull and score related workIn parallel
A search agent pulls every past RFP and pitch tied to this issuer and scores them for compatibility.
4
Agent
Draft the response
A document agent drafts the RFP response from your team's context, prior pitch materials, the RFP itself, and your preferred format.
5
Agent
Reviewer agent first pass
A reviewer agent checks the draft against your standards and flags anything that needs a banker's input.
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Bankers steer, agent-assisted
Review in Word, with a reviewer agent at your side
Bankers never start from a blank page or re-read the whole file. Inside Word, they chat with the reviewer agent to make edits, flag items, and pull sources. Each pass takes minutes, then routes to the next level.
Junior banker→Senior banker→Sign-off & submit
Runs over email. No new platform to check. A daily digest surfaces everything that needs your review or input.
Trained on public finance. Every agent is built on public finance workflows, not generic templates.
Visibility for managers. Senior managers get an audit and visibility view of where every pitch stands at any moment.
For senior bankers and managers
See exactly where every deal stands.
Beyond giving each banker their week back, Starch gives managers a real-time, auditable view of how the team is running.
✓Pipeline visibility. Every active pitch, RFP, RFQ, and issuer engagement in one place, with status and owner. No more chasing bankers for updates.
✓Institutional memory. Every deal, draft, and decision captured and searchable, so the next pitch starts from the firm's knowledge, not a blank page.
✓Built-in audit trail. Every workflow Starch runs is logged, reviewable, and exportable for compliance and supervisory review.
Built for public finance
Built for public finance. Customized to your firm.
Starch is grounded in the documents your team works with every day: official statements, RFPs (yours and your competitors'), EMMA filings, rating agency reports, and your firm's deal archive. It learns your precedent, your win themes, and your house style, so it gets sharper with every deal.
How we deploy
Live in weeks. Sharper every week after.
No long implementation. No consulting engagement.
1
Week 0
A 60-minute workflow discovery session to map where your bankers' time actually goes.
2
Weeks 1 to 2
We launch your production instance and stand up the first workflows. Real work, not a pilot.
3
Ongoing
Weekly iteration with your team. New workflows and sharper output as Starch learns your firm.
More pitches. Same team. Quality that gets better over time.
Frequently asked
Can Starch work with MNPI and our compliance perimeter?
Your data stays in your firm's single-tenant environment. Starch does not train on it, and it is never shared across firms.
Every agent action is logged with a full, exportable audit trail, and any external action requires banker review and sign-off before it runs. We do not claim compliance certifications. Your team keeps oversight at every step.
How is this different from ChatGPT or our Bloomberg terminal?
General AI tools draft from public information with no memory of your deals. Data tools give you market data, not finished work.
Starch is grounded in your firm's deal archive and win themes, and it produces the RFP response, the pitch deck, and the research, ready for a banker to review.
How long does onboarding take?
We start with the two workflows worth automating first, usually RFP and RFQ responses and pitch decks. Most teams see them live within a few weeks.
Coverage banking is just the start. We work with you to extend Starch across your public finance team, including syndicate and credit.
The leverage
Spend your week in front of clients, not in front of Word docs.
Starch takes the recurring prep off your bankers so they can do the one thing that wins mandates: build the relationship. Coverage banking is just the start. We extend across your public finance team, including syndicate and credit.