DiligenceProof
Diligence failure prevention and close acceleration.
01 · Command Telemetry
Command Telemetry
02 · Commercial Playbook
Core Value Proposition
A signed diligence-readiness packet that cryptographically proves cap table accuracy, document integrity, diligence response completeness and legal reviewer boundaries.
Tone — Institutional, close-table, precise.
Target Audience
Seed and Series A founders raising venture capital.
Target Buyer
Seed and Series A founders raising venture capital.
Target Reviewer
Angel syndicate investment committees and lead investor counsel.
Developer Wedge
REST API endpoints allowing virtual data rooms to submit document hashes directly to the verification registry upon upload.
GTM — VDR document hashing APIs.
First Receipt Primitive
diligenceproof.completion — cap table states, disclosure declarations and audit trail logs.
Core pain — Diligence data room chaos, unverified financial projections, version control failure on cap tables and delayed deal closings.
03 · Venture Artifact Studio
Venture Artifact Studio
04 · Artifact Pricing Studio
Better Pricing Model — by Financing size
- Under $250k$1,500
- $250k – $1M$3,500
- $1M – $3M$7,500
- $3M – $10M$15,000
- $10M+$25,000+
Revenue-Maximizing Wedge
DO NOT SELL — Data room software.
SELL — Diligence failure prevention and close acceleration.
For a $2M seed round, a $7,500 CloseRoom Evidence Packet is not expensive. It is less than 0.4% of the round and protects the transaction from delay, confusion, missing documents, cap table ambiguity, and investor/counsel rework.
Premium Artifacts
- ·Investor Intake Receipt
- ·NDA Completion Receipt
- ·Cap Table Snapshot Receipt
- ·Diligence Q&A Completion Receipt
- ·Disclosure Log Receipt
- ·Final CloseRoom Reviewer Packet
Upsell — Annual defensibility archive
- One round archive$1,000/year
- Multi-round archive$3,000/year
- CFO / counsel archive$7,500/year
Shared Revenue Architecture
- Tier 1Workflow accessGet users into the workflow.
- Tier 2Receipt generationMonetize proof creation.
- Tier 3Evidence Room packageMonetize review readiness.
- Tier 4Outcome / risk packageCapture value proportional to risk mitigated.
- Tier 5Archive and defensibilityDurable revenue after the artifact event.
Pricing Formula
The dashboard is the delivery surface. The receipt is the product. The Evidence Room is the monetization event. The reviewer packet is the premium. The archive is the recurring revenue.
05 · MVP → V1 Transition
MVP Boundary
A signed diligence-readiness packet proving cap table accuracy, document integrity, diligence response completeness and legal reviewer boundaries.
V1 Expansion Strategy
Direct API integrations with cap table management software (Carta, Pulley) and accounting platforms (QuickBooks, Xero), enabling automated real-time variance checking of raising-entity financial records.
Pricing Model Application
$2,500 flat fee per closed financing round (B = $2,500).
C = 2.5 — high consequence
Operational Alignment
Michigan Capital Network and Grand Angels regional nodes. Meagan Malm's experience managing firm operations and directing the $100M SBICCT fund — securing $50M in private capital matched by $50M from the U.S. Small Business Administration — guarantees immediate institutional standing within the venture community.
Candidate Evaluation — Rank 1 · 95.8 / 100
- Workflow Fit19.5 / 20
- Evidence Room14.5 / 15
- Network Leverage14.5 / 15
- Capital Rel.15 / 15
- Dev Wedge8.5 / 10
- AI Risk Mit.9.5 / 10
- Founder Fit9.5 / 10
- Revenue Pot.4.8 / 5
06 · Receipts & Decision Queue
Recent Receipts
- No receipts in today's window.
Decision Queue — C.
- Queue clear.
07 · Pre-Seed Data Room
Minimum investor-ready set — 18 items
- Incorporated entityPENDING
- EINPENDING
- Founder stock and vesting documentationPENDING
- Complete IP assignmentPENDING
- Clean cap tablePENDING
- Bankabil license agreementPENDING
- Investor deckPENDING
- One-page overviewPENDING
- Two-page investment memoPENDING
- 24-month financial modelPENDING
- Use-of-funds planPENDING
- Product requirements documentPENDING
- Workflow diagramPENDING
- First receipt schemaPENDING
- Demo Evidence RoomPENDING
- At least 15 customer interviewsPENDING
- At least three design-partner lettersPENDING
- Product-specific claims-limitation documentPENDING
Bankabil Technology License and Services Agreement
Establishes that DiligenceProof, Inc. is diligenceable on its own: investor rights here create no rights in any other cohort company.
- ›Bankabil owns or controls the shared Rails/Rust infrastructure.
- ›The startup receives a defined license to use it.
- ›The startup owns its customer relationships and domain-specific workflow.
- ›Domain-specific product improvements are clearly allocated.
- ›Shared-kernel improvements are clearly allocated.
- ›Hosting, security, maintenance, service levels and fees are defined.
- ›No startup automatically owns another startup’s product data or intellectual property.
- ›Investor rights in one startup do not create rights in the others.
01 · Company formation and ownership
Each independent legal entity needs its own EIN and corporate records. The IRS issues EINs directly and charges no application fee.
- Certificate of incorporationPENDING
- BylawsPENDING
- Initial board consentPENDING
- Founder stock purchase agreementPENDING
- Founder vesting schedulePENDING
- Intellectual-property assignment agreementPENDING
- Proprietary information and inventions agreementPENDING
- Founder roles and responsibilities memoPENDING
- Current capitalization tablePENDING
- Fully diluted capitalization tablePENDING
- Stock ledgerPENDING
- Option-pool plan or proposed option-pool memoPENDING
- EIN confirmationPENDING
- Business bank account confirmationPENDING
- State registrations and foreign qualifications, where applicablePENDING
- Beneficial ownership and corporate-record checklistPENDING
- Conflict-of-interest disclosurePENDING
- Related-party transaction disclosurePENDING
02 · Fundraising materials
For a SAFE financing, use a recognized form adapted by company counsel. A Regulation D offering generally requires a Form D notice filed through EDGAR after the first sale; counsel determines the correct federal and state process.
- 10–12 slide investor deckPENDING
- One-page company overviewPENDING
- Two-page investment memoPENDING
- Founder-market-fit narrativePENDING
- “Why now?” memoPENDING
- Market mapPENDING
- Competitive landscapePENDING
- Business-model summaryPENDING
- Go-to-market planPENDING
- Initial customer pipelinePENDING
- Fundraising target and use-of-funds planPENDING
- Milestone-based financing planPENDING
- Investor FAQPENDING
- Risk-factor memoPENDING
- Current fundraising-status trackerPENDING
- Investor outreach listPENDING
- Warm-introduction mapPENDING
- Follow-up and diligence trackerPENDING
- Financing instrument summaryPENDING
- Draft SAFE or other financing instrument reviewed by counselPENDING
- Pro forma post-financing cap tablePENDING
03 · Product definition
Every company answers the same eleven questions: company name, product name, founder-market fit, primary buyer, primary reviewer, repeatable workflow, first receipt primitive, Evidence Room contents, pricing wedge, MVP boundary, claims limitation.
- Product requirements documentPENDING
- Product thesisPENDING
- Target-customer profilePENDING
- Buyer-versus-reviewer mapPENDING
- Workflow specificationPENDING
- Receipt schema specificationPENDING
- Evidence Room specificationPENDING
- MVP scope documentPENDING
- Explicit non-goals documentPENDING
- Claims-limitation documentPENDING
- User-permission matrixPENDING
- Data-source inventoryPENDING
- Integration roadmapPENDING
- Product roadmap for the next 12 monthsPENDING
- Demo scriptPENDING
- Demo acceptance criteriaPENDING
04 · Customer discovery and commercial proof
A letter of intent should identify intended workflow, expected users, demo or pilot period, evidence to be generated, success criteria, proposed commercial price, data-access limitations, and a statement that the letter is nonbinding unless counsel specifies otherwise.
- Minimum of 15 documented customer interviewsPENDING
- Interview notesPENDING
- Interview consent and attribution statusPENDING
- Pain-point frequency matrixPENDING
- Current-workflow diagramPENDING
- Current-tool and substitute analysisPENDING
- Willingness-to-pay findingsPENDING
- Buyer-budget-owner analysisPENDING
- Procurement-path memoPENDING
- Reviewer-requirements summaryPENDING
- Design-partner target listPENDING
- At least three design-partner lettersPENDING
- At least one pilot letter of intentPENDING
- Customer pipeline spreadsheetPENDING
- Objection logPENDING
- Lost-customer or declined-pilot logPENDING
- Pricing-interview summaryPENDING
- Initial channel-partner listPENDING
05 · Demo dataset and Evidence Room
Each company needs a synthetic but realistic first demo company. Never copy private data from a real person or organization without authorization.
- Demo-company profilePENDING
- Demo user personasPENDING
- Demo workflow timelinePENDING
- Synthetic source documentsPENDING
- Data dictionaryPENDING
- Ground-truth answer keyPENDING
- Expected receipt hashesPENDING
- Expected signature outputsPENDING
- Invalid or tampered-document examplesPENDING
- Demo verification test casesPENDING
- Reviewer walkthroughPENDING
- Claims-limits filePENDING
- Demo READMEPENDING
- Sample ProofMail messagePENDING
- One-click or scripted verification instructionsPENDING
06 · Technical architecture and security
Boundary stays fixed — Rails: human workflow, state, permissions, intake and presentation. Rust: canonicalization, hashing, signing and deterministic receipt generation. Evidence Room: reviewable artifacts and source manifest. ProofMail: controlled external handoff.
- System architecture diagramPENDING
- Rails workflow architecturePENDING
- Rust trust-kernel architecturePENDING
- Rails-to-Rust API contractPENDING
- Canonicalization specificationPENDING
- SHA-256 hashing specificationPENDING
- Ed25519 signing specificationPENDING
- TLV schema specificationPENDING
- JSON receipt specificationPENDING
- Key-generation procedurePENDING
- Key-storage and rotation policyPENDING
- Signing-authority policyPENDING
- Verification procedurePENDING
- Evidence-retention policyPENDING
- Tenant-isolation architecturePENDING
- Role-based access-control matrixPENDING
- Audit-log specificationPENDING
- Incident-response planPENDING
- Data-backup and recovery planPENDING
- Threat modelPENDING
- Abuse-case analysisPENDING
- Software bill of materialsPENDING
- Open-source license inventoryPENDING
- Penetration-test roadmapPENDING
- Security and privacy FAQPENDING
07 · Financial model
The model must separate customer revenue, Bankabil license or service expense, cloud and verification costs, implementation labor, customer support, sales costs and company-specific legal/compliance costs.
- 24-month monthly operating modelPENDING
- Five-year annual summaryPENDING
- Headcount planPENDING
- Product-development budgetPENDING
- Hosting and infrastructure assumptionsPENDING
- Bankabil licensing or shared-services expensePENDING
- Sales and marketing budgetPENDING
- Legal and compliance budgetPENDING
- Insurance budgetPENDING
- Gross-margin modelPENDING
- Customer-acquisition-cost assumptionsPENDING
- Contract-value assumptionsPENDING
- Sales-cycle assumptionsPENDING
- Churn and renewal assumptionsPENDING
- Cash-burn schedulePENDING
- Runway calculationPENDING
- Financing requirementPENDING
- Base, downside, and upside scenariosPENDING
- Use-of-funds schedulePENDING
- Milestones unlocked by the roundPENDING
- Founder salary assumptionsPENDING
- Capitalization model before and after financingPENDING
08 · Legal, claims, privacy, and compliance
Conduct federal and common-law trademark clearance before committing to a company or product name. The USPTO recommends searching its trademark database before applying for registration.
- Master claims-limitation policyPENDING
- Product-specific claims matrixPENDING
- Approved product languagePENDING
- Prohibited product languagePENDING
- Terms of servicePENDING
- Privacy policyPENDING
- Data-processing addendumPENDING
- Customer agreementPENDING
- Pilot agreementPENDING
- Design-partner agreementPENDING
- Confidentiality agreementPENDING
- Subprocessor listPENDING
- Data-retention schedulePENDING
- Data-deletion policyPENDING
- Security addendumPENDING
- Customer-content ownership clausePENDING
- AI-use disclosurePENDING
- Synthetic-data disclosurePENDING
- No-professional-advice disclaimerPENDING
- Insurance requirements memoPENDING
- Trademark clearance reportPENDING
- Patent/trade-secret strategy memoPENDING
Demo Evidence Room — file manifest
Canonical
- README.mdPENDING
- claims_limits.mdPENDING
- receipt.jsonPENDING
- receipt.tlvPENDING
- verification_result.txtPENDING
- source_evidence_manifest.csvPENDING
- reviewer_packet.pdfPENDING
- developer_quickstart.mdPENDING
Required additions
- demo_data_license.mdPENDING
- synthetic_data_disclosure.mdPENDING
- expected_results.jsonPENDING
- tamper_test_results.txtPENDING
- receipt_schema.jsonPENDING
- public_key.pem (or documented public-key format)PENDING
Product & market documents
- DiligenceProof_Product_Thesis.pdfPENDING
- Seed_SeriesA_Close_Workflow.pdfPENDING
- Founder_CFO_VC_Ops_Buyer_Profile.pdfPENDING
- Investment_Committee_Counsel_Reviewer_Profile.pdfPENDING
- CloseRoom_Competitive_Map.pdfPENDING
- Transaction_Pricing_Memo.pdfPENDING
- Data_Room_to_CloseRoom_Migration_Guide.pdfPENDING
Workflow documents
- Investor-intake formPENDING
- NDA-state workflowPENDING
- Data-room access log specificationPENDING
- Diligence-request listPENDING
- Diligence-answer templatePENDING
- Cap-table snapshot procedurePENDING
- Disclosure schedulePENDING
- Closing-readiness checklistPENDING
- Counsel-review checklistPENDING
- Investment-committee packet templatePENDING
First receipt schemas
- investor_intake_receipt.schema.jsonPENDING
- nda_execution_receipt.schema.jsonPENDING
- data_room_access_receipt.schema.jsonPENDING
- cap_table_snapshot_receipt.schema.jsonPENDING
- diligence_completion_receipt.schema.jsonPENDING
Evidence Room contents
- Signed NDAPENDING
- Investor-access manifestPENDING
- Cap-table snapshot and hashPENDING
- Diligence-question manifestPENDING
- Diligence-answer receiptsPENDING
- Disclosure logPENDING
- Closing checklistPENDING
- Counsel handoff packetPENDING
- Investment committee reviewer packetPENDING
Commercial documents
- $2,500 Transaction Close-Room Assurance Package order formPENDING
- Per-round statement of workPENDING
- VC/angel-group design-partner agreementPENDING
- Fractional-CFO referral agreementPENDING
- Legal-counsel channel-partner memoPENDING
MVP and demo dataset
- Meagan DemoCo company profilePENDING
- Synthetic seed-round cap tablePENDING
- Synthetic pitch deckPENDING
- Synthetic NDAPENDING
- Synthetic diligence request listPENDING
- Synthetic legal documentsPENDING
- Five diligence responsesPENDING
- One intentionally altered cap-table versionPENDING
- Final close-room reviewer packetPENDING
- Eight-minute investor demo scriptPENDING
Claims limitation
- ✕Does not provide legal advice
- ✕Does not provide investment advice
- ✕Does not certify valuation
- ✕Does not guarantee solvency
- ✕Does not guarantee that documents are substantively truthful
- ✕Verifies only integrity, sequence, authorization and identified source relationships
Recommended creation order
Weeks 1–2
Legal and thesis
- ·Incorporate each entity.
- ·Execute founder and IP documents.
- ·Finalize the Bankabil license structure.
- ·Write the one-page thesis for each startup.
- ·Confirm buyer, reviewer, workflow, receipt, MVP and claims boundary.
Weeks 3–4
Customer evidence
- ·Conduct 15–20 interviews per company.
- ·Obtain three design-partner letters.
- ·Validate pricing.
- ·Record reviewer requirements.
- ·Refine the workflow and MVP.
Weeks 5–6
Demo Evidence Rooms
- ·Build each synthetic demo dataset.
- ·Generate first receipts.
- ·Create tamper-test cases.
- ·Produce reviewer packets.
- ·Record concise product demos.
Weeks 7–8
Fundraise room
- ·Finish decks and investment memos.
- ·Complete financial models.
- ·Prepare use-of-funds schedules.
- ·Finalize draft financing documents with counsel.
- ·Open separate investor data rooms.
- ·Begin targeted introductions.