We're building an AI-native investment platform made up of skills and agents that give every Stripes investor an edge at every stage of the deal lifecycle. The vision is validated by best-in-class like Ramp, Stripe, Brex, and Klarna: Our central AI team builds and maintains the platform, so every team member across Stripes can solve their own problems with AI they build themselves.
Phase 1: Parity
Table-stakes tooling and company intelligence across investment lifecycle, followed by other Stripes teams
Phase 2: Alpha
Scoring, signal detection, and pattern recognition that generate information advantages
Phase 3: Portfolio
Direct AI work with portcos: e.g. demand forecasting, workflow automation, and product enhancement
Auto Deal Workspace generation shipped: when a company moves to deal stage, Claude now auto-creates SharePoint folders, Slack channel, first-draft IC memo, and financial model scaffolding — all triggered by Monday.com pipeline stage change. shipped pod meeting → ic
IC Contrarian agent live: devil's advocate analysis for every IC memo — stress-tests the bull case and surfaces overlooked risks before committee. shipped pod meeting → ic
Call Logger deployed: auto-logging company and people notes from every call into SONAR CRM. No more manual entry after meetings. shipped sourcing meeting prep
Consumer Dream List shipped: mirrors the Enterprise Dream List for the Consumer pod — highest-priority targets with funding alerts and headcount signals. shipped sourcing
AlphaSense / expert transcripts connected: Tegus, AlphaSights, and GLG expert call transcripts now searchable directly in Claude. shipped pod meeting → ic
Newsletter scanner → Monday → outreach pipeline: end-to-end automation from newsletter company mentions to Monday.com tracking to draft outreach. shipped sourcing
Harmonic integration completed: people and company intelligence from Harmonic now live in Claude for richer prospecting and signal detection. infra
DCS Top List + DocSend Extractor shipped: captures DocSend deck slides and posts to Slack; DCS target list populated and tracked. shipped sourcing
SONAR graph + multi-source research underway: connecting proprietary SONAR data and parallel web research for deeper company intelligence. infra
Head of AI search progressing: Artico Search pipeline active, initial candidate conversations underway. team
Engine Room: agent command center: building the unified dashboard where the team can see all 9 agents, their skills, status, and usage — the "cockpit" for Stripes AI. infra
Sprint status site live: weekly partner-facing sprint updates as a branded static site (this page). infra
Claude Spend Projector: real-time dashboard showing Claude org spend, daily burn rate, and 30-day projection to help manage the $15K monthly cap. infra
Signal scan + catalyst detection: automated scanning of owned and unowned companies for catalyst events (funding, leadership changes, product launches) with draft outreach. sourcing
Board deck consolidation: finishing the historical backfill of portfolio company board decks into SharePoint with structured metadata. portfolio monitoring
Quarterly LP update skill: auto-drafts quarterly portfolio update bullets from board decks and investor relations data. portfolio monitoring
Connection hunt + warm intro paths: finds mutual connections and warm intro routes to target companies via LinkedIn and the Stripes network. sourcing
Remaining skill polish and testing: hardening edge cases, improving prompts, and testing all 56 skills end-to-end before sprint close. infra
Claude platform outages: intermittent Claude API and desktop app outages disrupting scheduled tasks and partner workflows. Monitoring closely. blocker
Claude org spend approaching cap: current spend at ~$7,200 of $15K monthly limit. Final sprint push will increase usage significantly. watch
Board deck gaps persist: ~30% of historical board decks still missing from SharePoint. Manual outreach to portfolio companies underway.
Desktop app access on managed devices: IT working on policy update to allow Claude desktop app on all managed Macs. Workaround via browser in the meantime.