When the CEO asks which number is right, how confident are you in your answer?
Room Zero gives investment managers one automated, reconciled source of AUM, Revenue, and Profitability. So the number that goes to the board is the same number all teams were working from.
Trusted by Distribution and Finance teams at leading UK investment managers
This is what running a distribution function looks like without the right data
A mandate comes in. You need accurate AUM by client, by product, by share class, for the last three years. Finance is in month-end. You're waiting.
A client calls, you pull their data. Finance has different figures, but no one knows which set is right.
You agreed a commercial arrangement months ago. You still don't know what it's doing to your margin. You'll find out at year-end, if at all.
All of this is what happens when the data infrastructure underneath your commercial operation was never built to give you what you need. Room Zero changes that.
Teams left guessing vs one golden source of truth
Without Room Zero, Finance and Distribution work from different data, on different timelines, and find out where they disagree the hard way. Here's what changes.
From raw data to board-ready numbers, automatically
Room Zero takes raw data from Fund Accountants, Transfer Agents, IBOR providers, platforms, and distributors – and produces a finance-grade golden source of AUM and Flow for every product and every client, reconciled automatically to official Fund Accountant NAVs.
Multi-level fund structures, double-counting, platform look-through: all handled automatically. Get Gross, Direct, and Managed views available at the most atomic grain of product and client, ready to slice by any dimension your business runs on.
Building directly on the AUM & Flow foundation, Room Zero automatically calculates management fee revenue, cost of sales, and net revenue across every product, channel, and client relationship – in both currency and basis point terms.
Every discount, rebate, and distributor fee is captured and applied. Distribution sees the real margin impact of every pricing agreement, without raising a request to Finance. One authoritative source for all teams.
Room Zero calculates revenue and records it: automatically posting finance-ready accruals to your general ledger across daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly cycles.
Where a third party calculates revenue or rebates, Room Zero consumes the actual invoices and reconciles them against its own accruals.
Finance gets genuine oversight of outsourced billing. Miscalculations and missed collections are surfaced before they become a problem.
How Room Zero changes your daily workflow.
Accurate external reporting
A single reconciled source for every regulatory submission – matched to Fund Accountant NAVs, with full data lineage. Get rid of discrepancies between internal and external figures.
Lower cost of Finance
~3 FTE of operational cost recovered per major implementation. Manual workflows automated. ~20 legacy systems decommissioned. Your team can focus on analysis, not reconciliation.
Board and audit confidence
Every number that goes to the board or an auditor carries a traceable calculation lineage. When someone asks how it was produced, the answer is available immediately.
No key-person dependency
The calculation is owned by the platform, not by whoever built the spreadsheet. Month-end runs whether or not the right person is in the building.
Get up and running without disruption
Room Zero doesn't require you to replace your existing infrastructure. It adds a calculation layer on top of it, connecting to the systems your Finance and Distribution teams already run, managing the data ingestion, and producing a single consolidated output.