What a client sees
Sample desk
No account. Switch briefs, filter by venture capability, read why each operator is staffed, and open a sample finding. Capability first. Not portraits. The internal system stays internal.
Staffed by capability
Names, reasons, and venture tags. Not portraits. Still a sample desk, not a live match.
3 on desk
Recorded restriction
Robert Lang is known to the desk and off this target. Prior advisory on a related company. A real desk records that. A CV does not.
Selected on desk
Priya Menon
Data readiness · London · 14 years
Priya spent a decade building credit and document models that looked excellent on tidy sets and then failed the first week in production. She now does the inverse: she finds that failure before you buy or scale. PE diligence teams bring her in when the data room is a slide, not a system.
Closed workNorthlake diligence parser. Extraction held 0.91 on vendor data and 0.54 on the target’s actual files. The IC walked away.
Venture capabilities
Sample finding
Walk away. The demo score was not the system.
Vendor-held files
0.91
Extraction held on the packets they prepared.
Data-room files
0.54
Same model. Real packets. Sharp drop.
Root cause
Leak
Label leakage in the training slice.
What closed
On vendor-held files the extractor scored 0.91. On the target's actual data-room files it scored 0.54. Label leakage in the training slice.
Recommendation
Walk away before IC. Do not price the demo as production readiness.
If you continue
If you still want coverage, re-open only after a clean holdout on independent files.
Not a product tour
This is the shape of a staffed desk. Your deal gets a real one.
Sample shortlists are curated for the public site. A live engagement starts from your brief, your files, and your clock.