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 and Stripe: 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.
Now — Phase 2 Active · Week 3 of 8
Phase 2: Expansion to Other Teams
Rolling AI out across five functional teams. 31 skills in flight, 15 shipped so far. Each box below shows skills delivered and overall completion.
Next — Phase 3 & Phase 4
Phase 3: Alpha
Scoring, signal detection, and pattern recognition that generate information advantages
Phase 4: Portfolio
Direct AI work with portcos: e.g. demand forecasting, workflow automation, and product enhancement
Sprint Complete — Phase 1 Delivered
Phase 1: Parity and Investment Team ✓
Table-stakes tooling and company intelligence across investment lifecycle — delivered April 1
Phase 1 Skills
55
of 56 tracked · +16 since ship
Sprint Progress
100%
Phase 1 Delivered
SONAR Chrome extension rebuilt in one day: We rebuilt the entire SONAR Chrome extension using Claude Code in a single day — the first thing we shipped off the rebuilt foundation is Granola and Claude meeting notes auto-syncing to the extension. When you visit a company page you now see a summary of every meeting (who you met with, what was discussed, key metrics, next steps), auto-deduped against Salesforce. Enterprise and Consumer Deals folders only for now. skill/agent call logger
Finance team shipped 5 new skills: iLevel MCP, PCAP Extractor, Financial Reporting (PCAP Extract & Checks), Finance Task Review, and ESG/DEI goals/awards tracker all went live. Expensify historical report extraction also completed — unblocking subscription cancellation. Biggest single-week delivery of any Phase 2 team so far. skill/agent team
IR team shipped 3 new skills: LP & Fundraising Management MCP, Granola IR Notes → Supabase (auto-log notes + convos + emails), Extract Followups from DC Interactions, and O365 Interactions → Supabase for activity logs. IR + Data AI Adoption working session held Apr 16. skill/agent team
Network infrastructure live: Sam shipped Network in SONAR MCP, Thrive Data full API access, and base Git + Supabase infrastructure. Network Database now in active build. skill/agent
Office Hours — Apr 15 investment team session: Raemie led the walkthrough of the final 3 copilots covering diligence, invest, and monitor stages of the investment lifecycle. Full 9-agent walkthrough now complete for the investment team. team
Investment team skills: Unowned Company Scout MCP + Sourcing Engine shipped: Two additional sourcing skills completed this week. Full custom MCP count now at 24. skill/agent sourcing
Founder Sequence Auto-Pause shipped: Sam built a tool that automatically detects when a founder you're sequencing has been emailed or met with by anyone else at Stripes. Sequence pauses and the Stripes AI bot DMs you. Prevents investor collisions with zero manual effort. skill/agent sourcing
FactSet MCP connector trial kicked off: Institutional-grade financial data now queryable directly in Claude — company fundamentals, consensus estimates, global M&A intelligence, ownership data, global pricing, supply chain, and geographic revenue exposure. No exports or manual lookups needed. skill/agent
Finance: 8 skills still in progress: Wayne fund/partner performance for Ken, Allvue API, OFAC compliance screening, QuickBooks integration, Financial Reporting daily cash feed, Addepar dashboard API, Sadie platform build, and Quarterly Reporting feature. skill/agent
IR: 7 skills in progress: Granola Weekly Digests of LP Calls (refining prompt with Paige), DealCloud data push-back, IR Builder Framework setup, With Intelligence API → Supabase, LLMs for marking followups complete, Board Deck processing automation for Portco Tracker, and Claude Code email routines. skill/agent
Office Hours: full firm, two sessions: Back to the firm-wide format this week. Monday Apr 20 session features a demo of the new Claude Routines. Wednesday Apr 22 session is dedicated training on the Claude Non-Technical Builder Platform. team
Head of AI — three in-person meetings this week: Tue Apr 21 Andrew Sohrabi 1st meeting (new Artico candidate). Fri Apr 24 Christian Giovanelli + Nikita Agarwal back-to-back 2nd-round meetings. Artico bi-weekly status update Thursday. team
Infrastructure: SharePoint deals extraction + stripes.ai intranet: Past 2 years of SharePoint deals being extracted to Supabase (starting with Kaylee's beauty use case). stripes.ai domain intranet scoping continues. Mac Mini AD logins, Claude SSO/RBAC, and AI Quarterly Survey all in progress. infra
Capital Markets: Liquidity Dashboard: Milan continuing the liquidity dashboard build. Kickoff skill shipped last week. skill/agent
Board deck consolidation wrapping: SharePoint cleanup for last 2 years of portco materials. Paige leading — mostly completed. portfolio monitoring
Network: Granola → Stripes.ai people matching + Network Database: Sam building out Granola notes surfacing with calendar-email people matching, combined with Chrome extension notes. Network Database and Scale Resources skill also in flight. skill/agent