AI engineering · Funds management · Sydney and Mumbai
Three funds, roughly 200 documents, and zero numbers made up.
India Avenue is the only investment firm in Australia and New Zealand devoted entirely to India, run out of Sydney and Mumbai since 2015. We built the assistant that answers their investors at any hour, using only the figures inside the fund documents, with a link back to the source every time.
At a glance
- Status
- Live in production, as the Avenue Virtual Assistant
- What we built
- An investor support assistant
- Funds covered
- Equity Fund, India 2030 Fund, Active ETF
- Corpus
- Roughly 200 documents across the three funds
What changed
What changed
Before
Reading one published number took four steps, and a year of performance meant four factsheets compared by hand.
Now
Now it is one question.
And every question asked is one the firm can finally see.
- Funds it answers for
- 3
- Documents behind them
- ~200
- Questions it had to pass
- 50
- Of answers from approved documents
- 100%
The ask
India Avenue holds an Australian financial services licence. Its investors are advisers, family offices and people with their own savings in the funds. A wrong return, or a stray forecast in an inbox, can mislead an investor and put the licence at risk. So the bar was simple. The assistant could be helpful, but it could never be loose with a number or an opinion.
They asked for two things. Sound like India Avenue, not like a chatbot. And be right, and say so plainly when it is not. Underneath both sat something quieter: they had no way of knowing what visitors were actually looking for on their own site.
The hard part
The figures were pictures
What went wrong
Much of the data does not exist as text. It is locked inside images of charts and tables. Ordinary retrieval could not read it, so the agent answered from whatever words happened to sit nearby. Accuracy was poor, and the prompt was not the reason.
What fixed it
Not better prompting. We reworked the retrieval and split roughly 200 documents into separate, purpose built tools. Each handles the document type it suits, so the agent pulls a figure from a source that actually contains it.
What was at stake
Every answer had to be
Sourced
Every figure comes from an approved fund document, with a link back to it.
From documents, not memory
Pulled fresh from the factsheets and research, never recalled by the model.
No advice, no forecasts
It shares data and explains strategy. It never recommends and never predicts.
The method
How we worked
01
Discovery
Learned the funds, the share classes and the documents investors actually ask about.
02
Proof of concept
One assistant, trained on their own factsheets and research notes. Nothing from outside the documents.
03
They marked it
India Avenue sent 50 real visitor questions, then marked every answer right or wrong with the reason. We tuned and ran it again.
04
Production
Live on the site as the Avenue Virtual Assistant, answering fund, performance and research questions.
What we built
What it does now, and what we left out
Asked for advice it will not give
“I can certainly provide the detailed historical performance data and strategy documents for our funds. For personalised guidance I recommend speaking with your own financial adviser, and our support team can provide any fund documents they may require.”
What we left out on purpose
The brief had the agent emailing documents on request. The portal that holds them opens no API to outside software, so a half connected version would have behaved like a dead end. It stayed out of version one. The agent takes the request and hands it to the support team.
Built to last
Why it keeps working
The 50 questions India Avenue marked are now an evaluation suite.
- 01
The guard
Every change to the agent’s instructions runs against those 50 questions first.
- 02
What it allows
The firm can take a newer model the week it lands and still show the answers did not change.
Beyond this client
The job transfers
The same problem turns up well beyond this one client. These are the teams it fits.
Anyone answering on regulated numbers
- Wealth advisers
- Super funds
- Private banks
Anyone with data trapped in documents
- Insurers
- Fund administrators
- Any firm whose figures live in PDFs
What the client says
AvestaLabs worked closely with us to identify a high-impact AI opportunity that aligned perfectly with our business. The AI agent they delivered has added real value to our business. Their collaborative approach, technical expertise and strong command of agentic AI made the entire engagement seamless and impactful.
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