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§ Case Study / 03 — AI Builder

AI Builder

Production AI inside a venture firm I can't name.

Role
Embedded · Solo build
Year
2026 — Present
Stack
Anthropic API · Claude Code
Firm
Undisclosed

§ 01The Situation

A venture firm runs on judgment applied to too much information: thousands of companies, years of meeting records, signal arriving faster than anyone can read it. The partners didn't need a demo. They needed systems they could trust on a Tuesday morning, built by someone close enough to see how decisions actually get made.

§ 02The Bet

I was embedded in the workflow, so feedback came directly from the partners using the systems. I could change something in days instead of waiting on an outside vendor's roadmap.

§ 03The Work

Four production systems, each built inside the workflow it serves:
  1. A sourcing and scoring engine.Pulls from the firm's internal systems (CRM, email, meeting records, and similar) and scores opportunities against a taxonomy of 2,500+ companies. Surfaces what matters before anyone thinks to go look.
  2. A tear-sheet engine for meeting prep.Walks into every partner meeting first. Compresses 4,000+ partner meeting notes into the two minutes of context that change how the conversation goes.
  3. A traction monitor on a weekly cadence.Scans hundreds of companies every week for movement: hiring, shipping, raising. The partners stopped asking what's new and started asking what changed.
  4. A verification layer.Catches hallucinated quotes and misattributed citations before anyone relies on them. Venture runs on trust, so the system that checks the system is the product.

§ 04The Outcome

Four production systems, live, in the partners' hands every week. Infrastructure the investment team runs on, built solo, inside the firm's walls.
Companies in the taxonomy
2,500+
Classified and scored. The map the sourcing engine runs on.
Companies monitored weekly
280+
Traction signals on a standing cadence, not on demand.
Production systems in weekly use
4
Sourcing, tear sheets, traction, verification. All four in the partners' weekly rotation.
§ 05 — Over Coffee

I can't name the firm, the sector, or anyone in the room. The systems run anyway. That's the proof I get to keep.

— Ask me about it anyway. I've gotten good at talking around the details.