

A proper first pass takes hours per deal — founder background, market sizing, claim verification. At 200 deals, that's months of work compressed into weeks. Triage by gut feel is the only option left.
Depth depends on who ran the check and how busy the week was. References are curated by founders. Network gaps decide what gets verified. The process rewards who you know, not how carefully you look.

Each fund encodes its investment thesis — stage, markets, team signals, exclusions. Every deal is evaluated against that lens, not a generic checklist.
NEO enriches every deal automatically: founder background, company context, market signals, public records — synthesized into a structured, sourced output.
When independent sources tell different stories about the same fact, the product flags it explicitly, with sources. NEO flags; the investor decides.


The ability to reason across incomplete, conflicting data — and arrive at a structured, sourced conclusion — required a threshold of model capability that simply didn't exist two years ago. It does now.
Public signals, social footprints, court records, company filings — the raw material exists and is growing. No one has built the synthesis layer for VC.
Funds that move faster without losing depth have a real edge — and they know it. Willingness to pay for speed is measurable and growing.
A tool built for VC diligence knows what signals matter at pre-seed versus Series A, how a well-prepared deck obscures risk, and what questions a founder didn't expect. Generic tools don't. That gap is what funds are now willing to pay to close.
1–3 years in. Spends 40–60% of time on research. Becomes a daily user because the product makes him sharper in partner meetings and faster on triage.
Reviews deals, relies on analyst output. Uses the product to gut-check, not to grind. Needs to trust the output before relying on it in a partner meeting.
Credits track real consumption, are shared across the whole fund, and unused credits roll forward.
Overage credits are the expansion lever. Self-serve first; Enterprise tier follows with SSO, API, and dedicated CSM.
| Product | Evaluates Deals | Built for VC | Verifies Signals | Accessible Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Agentic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Harmonic | ◐ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Affinity | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| PitchBook | ◐ | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Clay (enrichment) | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ◐ |
| ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity | ◐ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |