Is this template free?
Yes. The Obligation Calendar, Task Register and Completion Log sheets, plus the Operations Manual and Responsibility Matrix documents, download free with no account and no time limit. Edit with AI opens the same pack in River with an agent already primed to trace your fund's actual documents into a sourced calendar.
What does 'Edit with AI' actually do?
It creates a free account, installs this exact pack as a private space, and opens it with River already primed to ask for your LPA, side letters and regulatory registrations. Nothing is shared with other firms, and no obligation is added or removed from the calendar until you confirm its source yourself.
We already have an operations calendar. What happens to it?
It traces every existing line to a real document or regulation before keeping it. In the worked example, 9 of 38 inherited entries had no traceable source and were dropped, while 6 real obligations were found missing entirely. An untraceable entry is not evidence the obligation is real; it is evidence nobody checked.
Why calculate deadlines from a trigger instead of just entering the date?
Because a rule stated as days from an event stays correct if that event's date ever changes, and a rule copied as a fixed calendar date does not. Form ADV's deadline is 90 days after fiscal year end, not a specific date, and a calendar built for a December year-end fund reads wrong the moment it is copied onto a fund whose year ends elsewhere.
Does every fund need to file Form PF?
Only if the firm, together with its related persons, manages at least $150 million in private fund assets as of its last fiscal year end. Firms that cross this threshold after their calendar was first built are the most common case of a real filing obligation missing entirely, since nobody revisits the calendar when assets under management change.
What format are the downloaded files?
Word documents for the Operations Manual and the Responsibility Matrix, and CSV for the Obligation Calendar, Task Register and Completion Log sheets. The documents open in Word, Pages and Google Docs. The sheets open in Excel, Numbers and Sheets with every column, including each citation, intact.
Does this replace our fund administrator?
No. A fund administrator executes capital calls, distributions and NAV calculations; this pack is the calendar of when every recurring obligation is due and who owns it, administration included. Many of the obligations here, a K-1 delivery target or a capital account statement, are exactly what the administrator's own work feeds.