AI credits
How AI credits work in Delsivo: your plan's monthly allowance, what each action typically uses, credit packs, and using your own AI key.
Delsivo's AI reads decks, screens deals against your thesis, writes research briefs, assesses interviews, answers Ask This Deal and drafts IC memos. Each of those uses AI credits. One credit is $0.05 of AI at the model's list price, and you're charged for what each call actually used, not a flat fee per action.
Open Settings → Billing and find the AI credits card to see where your fund stands.
Your monthly allowance
Your plan includes a number of credits each month. The AI credits card shows:
| What | Meaning |
|---|---|
| This month's credits | A bar with the credits used against your allowance, for example 640 of 1,000 |
| Resets on | The 1st of next month, at 00:00 UTC. Unused credits don't carry over |
| Credit packs | Each pack you have, with what's left and when it expires |
| Typical credits per action | Estimates for each kind of AI work (below) |
If your plan has no monthly limit, the card says Your plan includes AI with no monthly limit and shows the credits used this month for your information. Design partner pilots work this way unless we agree an allowance with you.
What each action typically uses
These are estimates from real calls. A long deck or broad research uses more; a short one uses less.
| Action | Typical credits |
|---|---|
| Deck analysis | about 7 |
| Thesis screening | about 1 |
| Research brief | about 19 |
| Interview assessment | about 2 |
| Ask This Deal answer | about 1 |
| IC memo draft | about 3 |
Research briefs also pay the AI provider's fee for each web search they run (one cent a search), which is included in their credits. A call that fails after using the model still costs what it used.
Credit packs
When the month's allowance is used, AI work draws on your credit packs, the pack that expires first being used first. A pack lasts 12 months from payment; credits left after that lapse.
To buy one, a fund Admin opens Settings → Billing, clicks Buy credits on the AI credits card, picks a pack and clicks Continue to payment:
| Pack | Price |
|---|---|
| 500 credits | $62.50 |
| 2,000 credits | $250 |
| 10,000 credits | $1,250 |
You pay by card through Stripe, with tax added where it applies. Funds in India can pay in rupees through Razorpay (UPI, card or net banking), priced from the dollar price. The credits are added as soon as the payment goes through, and Stripe or Razorpay sends a receipt. If buying online isn't set up for your fund, the dialog says so; write to hello@delsivo.com and we'll add credits for you.
Packs the Delsivo team adds for you show Added by Delsivo.
When credits run out
When the allowance and your packs are both used:
- New AI work waits. New deck analyses, screening runs, research briefs, interview assessments, Ask This Deal answers and memo drafts don't start. Applications still arrive, decks are still scanned and stored, and nothing is lost.
- Buttons that start AI work (Run research, Ask, Draft with AI, sending an interview) say Your fund has used this month's AI credits. Buy a credit pack or use your own key in Settings → AI.
- Interviews already under way carry on. A founder in a live or text interview is never cut off, and the interview's transcript is still prepared. Its assessment waits with the rest.
- Home shows a notice. Admins get Buy credits and Use your own key. Everyone else sees that new AI work is paused and is asked to tell a fund Admin.
Work that was waiting starts again on its own as soon as credits are added: when a pack is bought or granted, when your fund switches to its own key, or when the allowance resets on the 1st. Otherwise Delsivo checks again every hour.
A job that had already started when credits ran out finishes, so the month's use can end slightly above the allowance.
Notices
Your fund's Admins get an AI credits running low notice, by email and in the app, at most once a month for each of these:
- 80% of the month's credits are used,
- the month's credits are used and AI work is now drawing on packs,
- all credits are used and new AI work is paused.
Admins can turn the email off in Settings → Notifications. Other roles don't get these notices.
Using your own AI key
AI work that runs on your fund's own Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini or OpenRouter key never uses credits: your provider bills your fund directly. Set it up in Settings → AI (see AI settings). If your key fails and Delsivo's AI takes over for a while, that work uses credits as usual.
Switching to your own key also restarts any work that was waiting for credits.
Frequently asked questions
Who can buy credits?
Fund Admins. Partners, Analysts and Committee members see the AI credits card read only.
Do unused credits roll over?
The monthly allowance doesn't: it resets on the 1st at 00:00 UTC. Packs keep their credits for 12 months from payment.
Can I get a refund on a pack?
Write to hello@delsivo.com. A refunded pack's remaining credits are removed.
Do founders use our credits?
Founders never pay. AI work about their application, such as deck analysis, uses your fund's credits.
Why did a deck analysis say it was queued for a long time?
Your fund may be out of credits. Check the AI credits card in Settings → Billing: if it says new AI work is paused, add credits or switch to your own key and the analysis starts on its own.
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