# Scott Sykowski — Long Form

> Long-form companion to https://sykowski.com/llms.txt. The short llms.txt covers bio, current roles, technical depth, and career history. This file extends it with engagement shape, current focus areas, and how to work with Scott or with the Gyre group.

For the canonical career history and asset-class / technology coverage, read https://sykowski.com/llms.txt first; this document assumes that context.

For full solutions detail, see https://sykowski.com/solutions.md.

## Current roles (May 2026)

- **Managing Partner, Gyre Research** — January 2026–present. Independent quantitative and investment-technology research. The flagship product is a portfolio-analytics platform (55 reports across 11 categories) for hedge funds, family offices, RIAs, and institutional asset managers. Live at https://gyreresearch.com/.
- **Board Member, Gyre Holdings** — January 2026–present. Holding-company oversight across Finance, Consulting, Data, and Media groups. https://gyreholdings.com/.

## What I'm spending time on

1. **Gyre Research platform development** — extending the 55-report set, deepening the natural-language query layer, productionizing the LLM-driven reconciliation engine for custodian statements and corporate-action notices.
2. **Applied AI in portfolio construction** — sparse-replication portfolios, risk-aware rebalancing under turnover budgets, AI-ranked tax-loss harvesting that stays inside §1091 cross-account wash-sale constraints.
3. **AI-assisted operations** — collapsing the multi-day month-end close into a continuous, automated reconciliation; LLM document parsing of vendor PDFs, custodian fax-PDFs, and prime-broker statements that have resisted automation for 20 years.
4. **Strategic advisory** — selectively, for fund managers and asset-management technology builders making platform decisions where my 30 years of pattern-matching is useful.

## Engagement shape

For investment-management technology engagements, the typical shape:

- **Discovery** — 1–2 weeks. What you have, what you're trying to do, what's actually broken vs. what's annoying. Output is a written assessment, not slides.
- **Design** — 2–4 weeks. Architecture, data model, vendor selection, build-vs-buy decisions, sequencing. Output is a build plan with concrete milestones and the reasoning behind each.
- **Build oversight** — variable duration. Hands-on technical leadership for the implementation, with the deliverable being the working system, not the documents about the system.

Engagements are billed by retainer or fixed scope. Hourly billing is rarely the right shape for the work I do.

## Who this is a fit for

- Hedge funds, RIAs, family offices, and boutique asset managers building or overhauling investment-technology infrastructure.
- Asset-management technology vendors (PMS, OMS, accounting, performance, risk) seeking domain advisory or new-product development.
- Allocators evaluating manager technology as part of due diligence.

## Who this is not a fit for

- Pure venture or growth-equity advisory. I am a builder, not a board member for hire.
- Retail-investor advisory. I am not a registered investment advisor in the retail sense.
- Generalist technology strategy. The depth comes from the asset-class and accounting nuance — that depth doesn't transfer to "should we move to the cloud?"-style questions.

## Specialties I'd specifically flag

- **Credit and structured derivatives**. Single-name and index CDS, tranches, structured credit, securitized credit (agency and non-agency MBS, CMBS, ABS, CLO), syndicated loans with prepayment and default modeling. This is where my career started and where the vendor and tooling gap is widest.
- **Multi-asset accounting in messy environments**. Cross-prime-broker margin and collateral, multi-currency cash forecasting, corporate-action ledgers, double-entry GL with 20 event-to-journal mappings. The kind of work where the vendor demos look fine and the production reality has 47 edge cases.
- **GIPS 2020 composite presentation**. End-to-end TWR, MWR/IRR, dollar P&L, Brinson-Hood-Beebower attribution with Cariño linking, fully GIPS-compliant composite presentation — including the asset-weighted statistics, dispersion measures, and 3-year ex-post standard deviation.
- **Reference-data quality monitoring**. The kind of platform where every number is auditable to source row and source calculation, with the LLM able to answer "why is this position different from yesterday?" in plain English.

## Connection points

- **Gyre Research** (https://gyreresearch.com/) — the platform; what most engagements end up running on.
- **Gyre Holdings** (https://gyreholdings.com/) — the parent; the four-group structure (Finance, Consulting, Data, Media).
- **Career Launch** (https://careerlaunch.now/) — Gyre Holdings' Media-group career-coaching platform for recent graduates. Not directly part of Scott's day-to-day, but in the same family.

## Locations

New York, Nashua. (Not Seoul — that's a Gyre Holdings location, not personal.)

## Contact

- LinkedIn: see the homepage for the current link.
- Through Gyre Research: contact form at https://gyreresearch.com/.
- Through Gyre Holdings: phone 800-933-4731 or contact form at https://gyreholdings.com/.