Our mission
To build intelligent, reliable and well-documented systems that let finance, risk and operations teams do more with the data they already have, and stand behind every result.
Who we are
Built for work that gets checked.
Synthwave LLC is an independent technology company focused on applied AI, software engineering and research for finance, risk and operations. We are founder-owned, based in Palo Alto, California, and organized as a Delaware limited liability company.
We work with organizations that need their numbers to be traceable, their systems to be understood by the people who run them, and their AI to be measured before it is trusted.
Our approach combines financial domain knowledge, engineering discipline and independent evaluation. We came to software from the side of the business that has to answer for the results.
Finance-literate engineering
Consolidation, close, treasury and risk are familiar ground. We know what a controller, a risk officer or an auditor will ask, and we build so the answer is already there.
Traceable by design
Every figure a system produces can be followed back to its source. Reviewers see the evidence, not only the answer.
Built to be handed over
Clear code, tests and documentation. Clients keep their code, data, prompts and models, and can run the result without us.
Our vision
To be the technology partner serious organizations trust with the work that gets audited: practical AI, sound data engineering and software that holds up.
What we do
Three pillars of dependable systems.
Most projects start in one of these and end up using all three.
Data systems & integration
Pipelines, reconciliation and reporting that connect ledgers, platforms and spreadsheets into one dependable source.
- Data architecture and warehousing
- API and platform integration
- Reconciliation and close automation
- Reporting systems
AI applications & software engineering
Assistants, document intelligence and workflow automation that fit the way a business already runs, with evaluation built in.
- Document and filing intelligence
- Retrieval and model pipelines
- Internal tools and workflow design
- Production software and handover
Research & evaluation
Independent studies of where current models hold up and where they fail on finance and operations tasks.
- Evaluation sets built from real cases
- Model selection and benchmarking
- Risk and monitoring design
- Written findings you can act on
Solutions
Where we apply it.
Solution areas we design, build and support. Each one is deployed and administered inside the client's own environment.
Document & filing intelligence
Extract, check and reconcile the numbers in contracts, statements, filings and invoices, with every value linked back to its source page.
Discuss thisReconciliation & close automation
Match transactions across systems, flag breaks, and prepare the schedules and journal entries that close the books faster.
Discuss thisRisk & model monitoring
Exposure, sensitivity and limit reporting from positions and market data, with alerts a risk officer can act on.
Discuss thisResearch & analytics infrastructure
Data environments, backtesting and reporting tooling for quantitative and operational research teams.
Discuss thisWorkflow agents for operations
AI assistants that take defined steps inside existing systems, log what they did, and stop when a person has to decide.
Discuss thisModel evaluation & selection
Test current models on your real cases before you commit to one, and keep the evaluation running after you do.
Discuss thisSynthwave provides the technology and implementation support. Systems run on the client's own infrastructure and under the client's own administration.