AI hasn’t replaced fund managers; it’s replaced the analyst who read the 500 pages first

For over two decades, Gaurav Gupta, Managing Partner at Decimal Point Analytics, has watched capital markets evolve from paper ledgers to spreadsheets to agentic AI systems that now read balance sheets, extract data from annual reports, and flag risk in real time. He sits at the intersection of institutional finance and applied AI, building customised models for clients managing assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars. In this conversation with CIO&Leader, Gupta unpacks the architecture beh