The full AlternativeSoft engine on the analyst's own machine: Fund selection, peer groups, portfolio construction, risk, stress testing and reporting on 500,000+ funds, with a local MCP connector so Claude Desktop and other AI tools can query it without a server.
AlternativeSoft Desktop is the installed version of the AlternativeSoft fund analytics platform: The full engine for fund selection, peer group analysis, portfolio construction, risk, stress testing and reporting, running on the analyst's own machine against a database of 500,000+ funds. It is the version used by most of the 150+ institutions on the platform, it hosts the local MCP connector for Claude Desktop and other desktop AI tools, and it shares its data and licence with AlternativeSoft Cloud, so a firm can run both.
One licence, every module the investment team uses.
Filter 500,000+ funds on any statistic, save screens and re-run them monthly.
Fund searchNine optimisation methods under liquidity, concentration and mandate constraints.
Portfolio constructionVaR, drawdown, factor exposure, historical and custom scenarios on funds and portfolios.
Risk analysisReturns-based style analysis, factor regression and LASSO factor selection.
Style analysisFactsheets, portfolio reports and committee packs in your branding, batch-scheduled.
ReportingSame engine, same data, two ways to run it.
| AlternativeSoft Desktop | AlternativeSoft Cloud | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Installed on Windows, connected to the database | Browser, any device | ||
| Best for | Analysts running deep quantitative work daily | Teams that want access anywhere and the Cloud ODD module | ||
| AI assistant | Local MCP for Claude Desktop and developer tools, plus server-hosted MCP | Server-hosted MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot | ||
| Due diligence | IDD analytics on every fund record | Cloud ODD: DDQs, documents, AI completion, audit trail |
Twenty years of institutional use shaped AlternativeSoft Desktop into a workbench rather than a dashboard. An analyst can move from a screen of the universe to a peer group, a factor regression, a stress test and a branded report without leaving the application or exporting a file, and every figure traces back to a timestamped calculation.
The desktop is also where the local MCP connector lives. An analyst with Claude Desktop installed can ask for a peer ranking or a drawdown analysis in plain language and have it computed on the machine, with nothing leaving the firm's environment and no server to host.
A 30-minute walkthrough built on funds you follow, then a free trial on your own machine.