Investor pitch-deck due diligence
VCs and angels: drop the deck, the data room, and the founders' memos. Ask hard questions, get cited answers across the whole packet.
Due diligence is reading at speed under judgement risk. Pitch deck, financial model, founder memos, prior board minutes, market reports, customer references — and a partner meeting in 48 hours. The only sustainable advantage is reading better, not just faster.
The problem
Skimming makes you miss things. Deep-reading makes you slow. A good deal turns on one inconsistency between two documents — and finding that inconsistency requires having read both, with attention. AI summarizers help, but they collapse the very contradictions you needed to surface.
How SeekFiles AI helps
- Cross-document Q&A — ask one question across the deck, the model, and the customer references.
- Cited paragraphs so when you raise a concern in the partner meeting, you can quote the source.
- Refuses to guess — gaps in the data room are flagged, not papered over.
- Hybrid retrieval — finds substantive matches even when terminology differs.
A workflow
- One assistant per opportunity. Upload everything: deck, model, founder memos, market reports, customer references.
- Ask the standard DD questions: "top 3 customer concentration risks," "are deck CAC numbers consistent with the model," "what did founders say about competitive moat in the memo vs the deck?"
- Each cited answer becomes a bullet in your IC memo.
- Pre-meeting: ask "what hasn't this deck explained well?" — surfaces what to ask the founders directly.
What to upload
- Pitch deck (current + prior rounds)
- Financial model (PDF / Excel)
- Founder memos
- Market reports and competitive analyses
- Customer reference notes
- Prior IC memos for similar deals
DD is judgement on top of evidence. SeekFiles AI makes the evidence faster to muster.
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