Era vs Relay | AngelList

Era links your bank accounts, cards, and investments to AI assistants through a personal MCP server called Context. You connect accounts once, then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client about balances, spending, and goals without uploading spreadsheets or leaving the chat window.

Most budgeting apps keep your data inside their own dashboard. Era takes the opposite path: it exposes typed financial tools over the open Model Context Protocol, with shared memory that carries goals and preferences when you switch assistants. Context is read-write, so an agent can categorize transactions, set rules, and move money between your own accounts only after you approve each transfer.

Era also ships Agency, a native app for proactive alerts and automations, and Thesis, a research-grade investing product. The free Basic plan covers two connected accounts with 250 daily MCP tool calls. Paid tiers add faster sync, edit access, higher MCP limits, and more connected accounts. Era Financial Advisors LLC is SEC-registered, and the company states it never sells user financial data.

Venture funds, syndicates, and fund administrators track private-market investments through email, and most of that data never makes it into a structured finance record. AngelList Relay turns forwarded investment documents and portfolio company updates into parsed, dashboard-ready records. You send SPAs, SAFEs, board consents, and other legal paperwork to a dedicated Relay address, and the service extracts key terms onto a shared portfolio dashboard.

Most portfolio trackers expect you to type in round sizes, valuation caps, and burn rates by hand. Relay is built around the fact that venture deals actually happen over email. Forward a wire instruction or a company update and it emails an AI summary back in under five minutes while filing the parsed terms to the right company record. That inbox-first design fits firms that already route deal flow through email, not teams that want a CRM-style data entry workflow.

Fund managers use Relay to keep a central record of investment terms across funds without hiring extra ops headcount. Fund administration firms pair it with their service work because auditors can pull valuation evidence and Schedule of Investments reconciliations from one place. GPs can add team members with layered permissions and optionally enable full inbox sync so Relay scans for relevant messages automatically.