Let’s think New Year’s resolutions: Process improvements to amplify PE success in 2026

This tradition is rare and valuable. And it’s exactly the mindset that helps firms retain great people, build stronger cultures, and earn trust from investors who notice operational excellence.

This year, that firm chose to focus on money movement.

Why? The leadership team couldn’t help but see what so many in their organization were experiencing in the age of AI:

1. Their LPs were frustrated by back-and-forth emails and security “asks” that are adding friction and burden to their investor experience in the name of protecting them.
   
   
2. Their fund admin team was stretched thin juggling callbacks and manual verification steps to safeguard capital calls and distributions — work that costs everyone time and energy without adding any actual protection. 

You read that right. No matter how careful and meticulous the double-checks and extra “security” steps the PE firm and their fund administrators adopted, the leadership team knew their fraud risks were only growing. 

When fraudsters are targeting PE firms at 300x the rate of other industries, no digital communication or document is safe. In a world where AI can mimic any voice from just 3 seconds of sample audio, no voice verification callback is effective.

But today, there’s a money movement solution that:

• locks out fraud
• improves the investor experience 
• drives operational efficiencies that allow PE firms to create value faster. 

The solution is 6lock. 

After seeing 6lock in action, the leadership team’s 2026 resolution became clear: eliminate the manual steps that create fraud risk, reinvent the investor experience, and free their team to do the higher-value work they were hired for with 6lock.

And guess what? Unlike most NYE resolutions, adopting 6lock is a fast and easy change. Our clients have been able to implement 6lock in hours, train their teams within days, and execute transactions with LPs within 30 days.

I’m so proud this PE firm chose 6lock to make 2026 their most secure and efficient year ever. Because when you shift from pressuring humans to “be extra careful” to deploying the state-of-the-art money movement platform purpose-built for private markets, powerful things happen:

• Your teams stop living in fear of making that one tiny mistake that could cost the firm millions
• Your LPs stop feeling punished or faced with extra friction because bad actors exist
• Your HR department stops losing good people to burnout from unnecessary pressure
• Your leaders stop asking humans to do tasks computers do better — and are freed-up to do the work humans are uniquely built for: strategic thinking, relationship-building, and growing the firm with confidence.

If your firm is thinking about New Year’s resolutions, here’s my invitation:

Look at the processes that drain your team’s energy or expose your investors to unnecessary friction — and ask whether 2026 could be the year you replace workarounds with solutions.

Solving your money movement problem is the kind of improvement that compounds:

• It strengthens your culture.
• It attracts and retains top talent.
• It gives your LPs frictionless peace of mind.

Most importantly, it protects your firm’s reputation in an era where AI-enabled fraud is rising and human safeguards simply aren’t enough.

At 6lock, we’re proud to support the people who make this industry great with the exact technology they need, now. Here’s to a 2026 where private markets move faster, stay safer, and do more to create value with complete confidence. 

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