A decision-support prototype for venture diligence
A full-stack diligence-workflow prototype with deal, research, scoring, portfolio, and reporting surfaces. Its source demonstrates workflow architecture and provider abstraction; it does not establish investment performance.
Development prototype
Source through 2026-02-26
Inspectable artefacts
Explicit claim boundary
Source evidence
A full-stack diligence-workflow prototype with deal, research, scoring, portfolio, and reporting surfaces. Its source demonstrates workflow architecture and provider abstraction; it does not establish investment performance.
Repository evidence is not client, deployment, certification, or outcome evidence.
The Problem
Why VC due diligence is broken
Analysts spend 40+ hours per deal manually researching founders, markets, and competitors across scattered sources.
Quality varies by analyst. No standardised framework means critical signals get missed on some deals.
Weeks to produce a single investment memo. Hot deals close before diligence is complete.
Insights from past deals aren't reused. Each evaluation starts from scratch with no institutional memory — and EU-specific data (EIC grants, BPI France, INPI filings, AMF disclosures) is completely ignored.
Features
End-to-end AI-powered due diligence pipeline
Source scope only: a card can describe implemented code, a documented adapter, or a configured workflow. It is not a statement that a production service is active.
Deep founder assessment covering background, track record, network, technical depth, leadership, resilience, market insight, and integrity — weighted 25% of the 6-dimension Kairos Score.
Workflow surfaces for TAM/SAM/SOM assumptions, timing analysis, and market-opportunity scoring. Source availability depends on configured data adapters.
AI-generated competitive landscape analysis with positioning, differentiation assessment, and moat evaluation.
Adapter and workflow surfaces for digital presence, repository activity, hiring signals, customer sentiment, filings, and commercial datasets. A named source is not evidence of live access.
9-signal fundraising timing model, pivot detection from hiring/GitHub signals, key-person risk analyser, and exit window forecasting with sector-specific multiples (AI: 22× ARR, Cybersecurity: 18× ARR, SaaS: 9.5× ARR).
The source assembles draft investment memos, diligence reports, competitive views, and risk registers for investor review. No turnaround or decision-quality outcome is claimed.
Tech Stack
Named technologies identify repository dependencies or adapter surfaces; they do not assert a live integration or deployment.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Redis, SQLAlchemy, Alembic
Claude Sonnet 4 (primary reasoning), Mistral + OpenAI (fallback), Ollama (local), sentence-transformers, spaCy NLP
Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Recharts, Zustand
Playwright, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, httpx, LinkedIn, GitHub, F6S
Docker Compose, JWT auth, API keys, structlog, rate limiting
Pytest, Playwright E2E, Vitest, TanStack Query
Source Code
The Kairos VC platform source code is available upon request for evaluation and partnership purposes.
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Architecture
Three source boundaries: workflow UI, modular APIs, and a replaceable model-provider layer with deterministic test support.
Source map only: a layer can represent implemented code, an adapter boundary, or documented design. It does not assert a configured production service.
Next.js 16 App Router, 60+ dashboard pages, Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, React Query. Pipeline boards, founder pages with 8-dimension scoring, competitive-landscape maps, portfolio monitoring dashboards. The UI a partner actually opens.
FastAPI backend covering deal sourcing, due diligence, founder scoring, technical assessment, competitive intelligence, term-sheet drafting, post-investment monitoring. Stage-calibrated logic — what matters at seed is not what matters at Series C.
Provider adapters represent Claude, Mistral, Ollama, Hugging Face, and deterministic mock paths. Model behaviour, locality, and data handling depend on the selected provider and deployment configuration.
8-dimension founder scoring
The prototype makes scoring dimensions and rubrics explicit so an investor can inspect assumptions instead of treating a model output as a verdict.
Repository surface only: availability, completeness, performance, and operational fitness require separate validation.
DIM 1Domain depth × execution velocity × team-fit signals (co-founder dynamics, prior shipping evidence, hiring track record). LinkedIn enrichment + public-commit cadence + interview transcripts.
DIM 2Bottom-up TAM with sources, top-down sanity check, 5-year growth thesis, regulatory tailwind/headwind. Penalises 'all of the EU is our market' with a structured why-now requirement.
DIM 3Captures user-research artefacts, retention evidence where available, and the gap between a demonstration and an operable product. The investor remains responsible for the conclusion.
DIM 4Revenue curve quality (not just absolute number), net dollar retention, sales-cycle compression over time, organic vs paid mix. Stage-calibrated — what matters at seed is not Series A.
DIM 5Burn multiple vs stage, payback period on CAC, runway clarity, prior round price-to-quality ratio. Flags 'too much capital for the milestone delivered.'
DIM 6Technical assessment by domain. Generated by the LLM backend with stage-calibrated rigour — different rubrics for Seed and Series C. Identifies signal vs noise in the founder's claimed novelty.
DIM 7Data moat depth, switching cost analysis, regulatory moat where applicable (e.g. clinical, defence), network-effect curve shape. The 'why does this not get crushed by Big Tech?' answer.
DIM 8Sales motion clarity, ICP discipline, channel quality, founder-led-sales transition plan. Penalises 'we'll hire a VP Sales to figure it out' answers.