Every claim traced from first pitch to final decision
A branded portal for founders, decks read with slide citations, your thesis applied with reasons, and one evidence record per deal. Your team decides.
- Every finding cites its source
- Unknowns stay unknown
- Founders never pay
- A person decides every stage
Kitepath
Carrier invoice reconciliation for mid-size freight brokers
kitepath-seed-deck.pdfVersion 1
Traction
20 enterprise customers
USD 410k ARR · Sep 2026
Slide 7: the competition chart could not be read, so nothing was guessed from it.
Extracted from the deck
- Stage
- Seed Slide 1
- Sector
- B2B software, logistics Slide 1
- Customers
- 20 enterprise customers Slide 4
- Revenue
- USD 410k ARR, Sep 2026 Slide 4
- Team
- 9 people, Pune and Austin Slide 9
- Competition
- Chart not legible Slide 7
Core seed rubric, version 3
Thesis fit
Strong
Evidence
Partial
Readiness
2 missing
- Stage: seedSlide 1Met
- Sector: B2B softwareSlide 1Met
- Round size: up to USD 3MBecomes a questionUnknown
A person decides
Sample deal. The fund, founder, company and numbers are made up.
A pitch's history is scattered across six places
Small teams spend first-review time rebuilding what a founder said, where it came from and whether anyone checked it. Partners then read a summary without knowing which claims were verified.
- Form tool and inbox
The application and the deck as an attachment
- Spreadsheet
A row per company, with a column someone typed the revenue into
- Someone's memory
What the founder said on the first call about paying customers
- A notes doc
Why the analyst thought it fit, without the slide it came from
- Shared folder
The revenue schedule, three versions, none marked final
- Chat thread
The partner asking "is the 20 customers number real?"
Sample deal. The fund, founder and numbers are made up.
Seven steps, one deal record
From the founder's first application to your team's decision, every step adds to the same record, with its source.
- 1Pilot
Founder applies on your portal
A branded application on your subdomain or your own domain, with save and resume, a receipt and a secure founder link.
- 2Pilot
The deck is read
Slide text and legible charts are extracted, company facts are pulled out with slide citations, and weak extraction is flagged.
- 3Pilot
Thesis fit is checked
Your hard rules and weighted preferences are applied. Each criterion shows the rule, the value found, the source and the reasoning. Unknowns stay unknown.
- 4First release
The founder is interviewed
A live AI interview: the founder shares their screen and pitches for about 5 minutes, then an AI interviewer asks your questions out loud, within the 15 to 20 minutes you set. Text is always an option.
- 5Pilot
Claims are tracked
Every material claim is kept with its definition, period, units and sources, labelled founder reported, corroborated, disputed or unresolved.
- 6Pilot
Requests and data room
Follow-up forms and file requests go to the founder through the portal. Uploads are scanned, versioned and filed in the room.
- 7Pilot
Your team decides
Analysts and partners move the deal, pass with a reason or take it to committee. AI never changes a stage or writes to a founder on its own.
Basic follow-up forms and file requests are in the pilot. Full data rooms arrive in the first release, and the committee workflow later.
See what was said, what was checked and what AI suggested
Every claim carries one of four labels, and colour is never the only signal. AI output sits on lilac with its label until a person accepts it.
- Founder reported
- Stated by the founder in the deck, a form or the interview, not yet checked.
- Corroborated
- Backed by a document, a data room file or an analyst's check.
- Disputed
- Two sources disagree. Both versions are kept and cited.
- Unresolved
- Not enough evidence either way yet. It becomes a question or a task.
Kitepath · Claims
- USD 410k ARR, Sep 2026Slide 4Founder reported
- 8 customers on paid annual contractsFinancials / contracts.pdf p. 3Corroborated
- 20 enterprise customersSlide 4 · Interview 07:42Disputed
- Net revenue retention above 110%Interview 05:40Unresolved
Thesis criteria
- Stage: seed Met
- Sector: consumer apps Mismatch
- Round size Unknown
Sample data. Unknown is never shown as a failure.
Built for teams with more decks than analyst hours
Lean seed and pre-seed funds first. The same evidence record works for accelerators, syndicates and corporate venture teams, set up for their own thesis and reviewers.
Clear the inbound queue and know why each deal is in it
Delsivo for seed funds- A review queue ranked by your own rubric, with the reason for each position
- Fit, evidence quality and readiness shown separately, never one blended score
- The same short interview for every founder you select, before the first meeting
Little traction to check, so the questions matter more
Delsivo for pre-seed funds- Missing values stay Unknown and become questions instead of failing the deal
- A live AI interview, taken when the founder chooses, can stand in for a first call
- Short, founder-friendly follow-up requests
Run every application window on your own portal
Delsivo for accelerators- A branded portal for each cohort's application window
- Mentors and external reviewers as scoped guests
- Every shortlisted applicant answers the same interview questions
Give your backers claims they can check
Delsivo for angel syndicates- Screening against the lead's thesis, with cited reasons
- Every claim labelled founder reported, corroborated, disputed or unresolved
- Share a deal's deck and findings with named backers on expiring links
Strategic fit and financial fit, side by side
Delsivo for corporate venture- Strategic criteria in the same rubric as financial ones
- Business unit experts join as guests who see only what you share
- Every view and download logged, with stricter controls on the roadmap
Founder applying through a fund? What to expect · Compare all five
Founders apply on your brand, at your own address
Your logo, colours and copy on the application, founder workspace, interview screens, guest room pages and founder emails.
- A subdomain such as
yourfund.delsivo.appon every plan Pilot - Your own domain, such as
apply.yourfund.com, on the upgrade plan First release - Colours checked for contrast on save. A failing pair is refused with the reason, not quietly changed.
- Founders sign in with one Delsivo account that works on every fund portal, and track their round in a fundraising CRM your fund never sees After first release
We back B2B software founders at seed.
Contrast check passed. Button labels and text on Northwind Seed's colour meet WCAG AA, in light and dark mode.
Sample funds. Names and domains are made up.
Built for decks and data rooms from day one
These are controls by design for the pilot. Nothing is certified yet, and the security page marks what is planned.
Each fund kept apart
Every record carries the fund in its key, and one permission check covers pages, search, AI answers and exports.
Files scanned first
Uploads are scanned for malware before anyone can preview them or AI can read them. Suspicious files stay quarantined.
Short-lived links
Downloads use links that expire quickly and are issued only after a permission check.
Portals on their own domain
Founder portals run on a separate domain from the investor workspace, so sessions can't cross between them.
An audit history
Stage changes, overrides, shares and downloads are logged with who did them and when.
The fund controls founder data
The fund is the controller and sets retention. Deletion removes previews, search indexes and derived copies.
Start with the deals you have already seen
We are running pilots with lean pre-seed and seed funds that have steady inbound and a small team.
Funds pay for Delsivo; founders always use it for free. Prices are set after design partner pilots measure real usage.
- Stage 1
Your historical deals
We calibrate deck extraction and your rubric on deals you have already reviewed.
- Stage 2
Live intake, analyst only
New applications come through your portal. Recommendations are visible to analysts only.
- Stage 3
Interviews and rooms
Turned on for selected deals as the first release arrives.
- Stage 4
Compare and decide
Review time, evidence accuracy and founder completion against your current process.
- Founders always use it for free. Your fund pays, at a price agreed with you for the pilot.
Questions funds ask us
Something else on your mind? See every question, or ask us when we talk about a pilot.
See your own deals in Delsivo
Design partner pilots start with deals you have already reviewed, so you can judge the extraction, the fit reports and the citations against what you know.