Aware Software, Inc.  ·  Since 2002

The reporting engine
for top-tier prime brokers.

In‑house client reporting at prime‑brokerage scale. Millions of statements, margin packages, and risk reports produced every overnight cycle — at the visual fidelity the contract specifies.

Two Of the top-5 American prime brokers
Millions Documents per overnight cycle
Zero Missed overnight cycles
Under NDA Specific references on request
May 2026 · Announcing Aware Reports 7. Complete Rust rewrite. Re-engineered for agentic AI. A drop-in replacement for AR6.
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The Strategic Question

Reporting is a contracted differentiator.

Prime-brokerage clients pick their bank on financing rates, balance-sheet capacity, and the operational experience. Reporting is the part of operations they touch every morning — and it has quietly become a contracted differentiator that drives mandate decisions.

The document stack is the next AI layer.

Agentic AI is moving into document production, where deterministic output and audit-grade reproducibility are non-negotiable. The platforms that integrate AI without sacrificing those guarantees will define that layer.

Bespoke formats are written in.

The most sophisticated clients now negotiate report formats as contract terms. Templates that bend without engineering tickets — and survive the cycle at scale — become a competitive moat.

Owned runtimes, not rented services.

The largest banks are repatriating the document stack from SaaS dependency: licensed binaries on owned infrastructure replace kill switches, per-document fees, and outsourced operations. Software you can audit, freeze — and run forever.

What Aware Reports Delivers

Built for the prime‑brokerage cycle since 2002.

One self-contained binary produces publication-grade PDF and native Excel documents at prime-brokerage scale. A memory-safe Rust core delivers deterministic, byte-for-byte output for audit-trail integrity in client disputes. Two complementary engines — programmatic (ARL) and design-driven (templates) — share one runtime and produce output parity across PDF and Excel.

Survivable at prime-brokerage scale.

Millions of documents per nightly cycle, compressed into a few hours — one hour for intraday risk and margin packages. Minimal, constant memory footprint and Rust's throughput make serverless (AWS Lambda), spot instances, and slim containers viable production environments.

Design-house typesetting. Native Excel.

Kerning, ligatures, multi-page tables, multilingual scripts, PDF/A archival. Real XLSX features — formulas, charts, pivots, conditional formatting, embedded VBA. Customized per client where the contract demands it.

The engineers you call build and maintain the code.

Privately held, fully funded, decades of compounding investment in the platform. No kill switch. No offshore call centers. Every version ever shipped remains supported indefinitely; no forced migrations.

Outcomes

What Aware delivers to your prime‑brokerage operation.

Five outcomes earned over two decades of continuous production at the largest American prime-brokerage technology stacks.

Every cycle, at volume.

Trade close, end-of-day settle, batch generation, delivery by client open in their time zone — the chase-the-sun cycle that does not extend. Millions of documents per night across statements, margin, intraday risk, securities lending, and confirmations.

What clients see every morning.

Publication-grade typesetting refinement across every document, every cycle, without degradation at volume. The client's own clients — hedge fund LPs, fund administrators, family-office beneficiaries — receive derivatives of the same data without loss of fidelity.

Designed for the agentic era.

LLM-context-optimized documentation, formal CLI and ARL specifications, purpose-built Aware Reports skill for AI coding assistants, AI-assisted QA on every release. We are not retrofitting an AI story onto legacy operations.

No kill switch. No offshore call centers.

Privately held. The binary runs in your environment. Support comes from the engineers who wrote the code. Features on Demand — a customer-driven development program at no additional cost.

At this exact workflow, since 2002.

Two of the top-five American prime-brokerage technology stacks run Aware Reports through the overnight cycle every business day — one since 2002, one since 2014. Through 2008, COVID, and the 2023 regional-banking stress, every overnight cycle has been met at every running deployment. The corner cases of high-volume, tight-window, customized-per-client reporting are already in the test suite. Every version ever shipped remains supported indefinitely; no forced migrations. Specific references available under NDA.

Risk Mitigated

For the board, the auditor, and the CIO.

Four categories of risk Aware Reports mitigates by virtue of how the platform is built, owned, and supported.

Two decades. Zero missed cycles.

Twenty-plus years of meeting the overnight cycle at the largest American prime brokers. The corner cases of high-volume, tight-window, customized-per-client reporting are already in the test suite.

A binary, not a service.

Aware Reports runs in your environment. No kill switch. No escalating subscription fees. No offshore call centers. No M&A churn. No end-of-life cycles. The opposite of an outsourced reporting service.

Reproduce the exact bytes that were sent.

PDF/A archival output. Deterministic intermediate output for byte-level auditability of every generated document. Signed binaries with SBOM. Detailed security and compliance posture, with applicable certifications, under NDA.

The vendor pacing the bank's transformation.

Aware completed its own agentic transformation in 2025–26. The reporting layer won't be the bottleneck on your AI roadmap; Aware has already lived through the migration it's helping deliver.

Client Programs

How Aware works with you.

Three commercial commitments that anchor Aware's long-term partnership with every customer.

Customer-driven. At no additional cost.

Identify a capability that would strengthen Aware Reports for your workflows; we scope, build, and deliver it on a priority basis. Anything that becomes part of the platform — supported indefinitely, available to every customer — ships under your existing license. Bank-specific custom development outside the platform is scoped separately.

Engineers, not call centers.

Support comes directly from the engineering team that builds and maintains the product. No tier-1 funnels, no offshore handoffs.

Every version supported.

Every major release ever shipped remains supported indefinitely. Stay on any version as long as it serves you; migrate when the value justifies the effort.

Looking Ahead

Building on AR7.

A roadmap that brings modern Rust-native typesetting, a cloud-native reporting cluster, and integration with the design tools your team already uses.

SVG and Typst backend.

A modern Rust-native typesetting system — fast, single-library, no external dependencies. WASM-compatible PDF pipeline runs entirely client-side. Real-time preview in any browser.

Aware Cluster.

A cloud-native reporting cluster with bundled enterprise data adapters. Priority scheduling, auto-scaling workers, spot-instance economics for up to 90% cost savings on cloud compute.

Design-tool integration Figma & Adobe InDesign.

The design team gets a familiar canvas for bespoke client formats negotiated in the PB agreement. The engineering team gets a deterministic, templated pipeline. Both produce the same documents going to clients. Engineering and design meet on common ground.

Engage

Sixty minutes with Aware's founder and president.

A conversation on the state of high-fidelity prime-brokerage client reporting, the AR7 architecture, and Aware's strategic roadmap. Under NDA: specific customer references, detailed security posture, performance benchmarks, and licensing terms. No commitment, no commercial expectation.

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