73 Strings · Overview
Reimagining an investment platform
73 Strings builds AI-powered software for private markets: collecting portfolio company data, valuing holdings and rolling it all up to the fund. I led product design for a complete reimagining of the platform, and built the Galaxia design system with engineering.
ROLE
Director of Product Design, leading 6 product designers
USERS
Valuation, data collection and investor relations teams
SURFACES
Desktop web, in light, dark and high-contrast themes
STARTED
February 2026
The work
01
Quarterly data collection as a workflow: scheduled requests, reminders and AI extraction.
02
Portfolio
Data rolled up from portfolio companies to funds to the whole portfolio. Coming soon.
03
Comparable-company analysis for valuation teams, built on the same tables and components.
04
Galaxia: one set of components and tokens, in light, dark and high-contrast themes.
Overview
Every quarter, valuation teams chase portfolio companies for financials, retype numbers from PDFs, and roll them up to value the fund. 73 Strings set out to replace that with one AI-powered platform. I joined to lead product design for a complete reimagining of the product.
The work spanned the whole loop: collecting data from portfolio companies, rolling it up from company to fund to portfolio, and valuing holdings against comparable companies. Each has its own case study above.
What held it together was the design system. My team built Galaxia with engineering before the screens, so every product shares the same tables, chips, filters and modals. Engineers used the components with Claude Code to generate screens and features.
I led a team of six designers: I set the overall structure, flows and components, and my designers built the screens. The new product was shown to clients in demos. Leadership backed it, and clients kept asking when they could have it.
How it came together
Foundation
Built the team and the system
Led six designers, and built Galaxia with engineering: components and tokens in light, dark and high-contrast themes.
Data in
Reimagined data collection
Distill turned the quarter-end chase into scheduled requests, automatic reminders and AI extraction with a person checking the work.
Up the stack
Portfolio and Trading Comps
Roll-ups from company to fund to portfolio with Waterfall built in, and comparable-company valuation on the same components.
Out the door
Built with AI, shown to clients
Engineers generated screens from Galaxia components with Claude Code. Clients saw it in demos and kept asking when they could have it.
SYSTEM FIRST
One system under every product
I built Galaxia, the 73 Strings design system, with engineering: components and tokens for light, dark and high-contrast themes, exported to code. Distill, Portfolio and Trading Comps all draw from it, so the product reads as one platform. See the full design system case study.