Understanding Business Needs, Not Just Technology

Our client, a venture capital firm, approached us with a common frustration: they knew AI could improve their workflow, but they needed practical solutions, not technical demonstrations. Years of critical deal information sat scattered across mailboxes and multiple users, making it nearly impossible to find what they needed. Traditional keyword searches were inefficient and incomplete. They had seen impressive AI demos filled with terms like RAG, vector databases, and agents—but as business users, they didn't care about the technology. They needed something that worked seamlessly with their existing processes, required minimal disruption, and delivered immediate value. With our 15 years of building applications that people actually use, we understood what they really needed. We architected and built the Deal Notebook system—a solution that handles the technical complexity behind the scenes while delivering exactly what investment professionals need in their daily workflow.

Challenge & Solution

A leading venture capital firm needed to streamline their deal evaluation process, which involved manually processing numerous investment opportunities daily. Each deal required extensive analysis of pitch decks, financial data, market research, and competitive intelligence. Our AI-powered Deal Notebook system automated this entire workflow, enabling faster, more comprehensive deal analysis while maintaining the highest standards of data security and privacy.

VC Deal Notebook challenge: Manual deal evaluation and scattered information across mailboxes

Highlights

Visual Document Processing
Visual Document Processing

Each slide deck page is converted to high-resolution images and processed through Visual LLMs to extract comprehensive insights and generate structured text summaries.

External Intelligence Gathering
External Intelligence Gathering

Agentic collection of competitive landscape data, market intelligence, and financial benchmarks from multiple external sources.

Comprehensive Analysis Generation
Comprehensive Analysis Generation

AI synthesizes all data to produce detailed risk assessments, management evaluations, financial analysis, and investment recommendations.

Financial Data Analysis
Financial Data Analysis

Custom Excel handlers process complex financial models, passing data to LLMs for intelligent analysis and natural language explanations of key metrics.

Intelligent Search & Insights
Intelligent Search & Insights

Vector embeddings enable hybrid search capabilities while knowledge graphs reveal hidden relationships and generate contextual Q&A pairs.

Email Agents
Email Agents

AI automatically processes incoming deal emails, intelligently distinguishing between new opportunities and existing deals, then extracts all relevant content and attachments.

Key Features & Capabilities

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Automated Deal Classification & Notebook Creation

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Visual LLM-Powered Document Analysis

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Advanced Financial Model Processing

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Real-time Competitive Intelligence

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AI-Generated Investment Thesis

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Hybrid Vector & Graph Search

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Interactive Chat Interface

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Automated Briefing Note Generation

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Deal Status Management

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On-Premise LLM Deployment

Privacy & Security First

Understanding the sensitive nature of investment data, all LLMs run locally within the client's secure environment. This ensures complete data privacy, regulatory compliance, and eliminates any risk of sensitive information exposure to external AI services.

VC Deal Notebook security showing on-premise LLM deployment for complete data privacy

Business Impact

85%

Faster Deal Analysis

90%

Time Savings on Research

100%

Data Privacy Protection

3x

More Comprehensive Analysis

Snapshots

A notebook can be easily created based on the needs of the user. Notebooks are classified with respect to deal notebooks and research notebooks. Deal notebooks are used for deals which are received by external mails. Research notebooks are used for deep research on particular companies or deals. They are also filtered based on status , whether a deal is active or the deal is inactive at that point of time.

VC Deal Notebook interface showing deal and research notebook creation with status filtering
VC Deal Notebook showing company insights, financial details, and categorized internal data

When the deal is uploaded and processed, complete insights of the company, financial details about the company, recent news related to the company are extracted from external sources. The internal data provided are classified and categorized with respect to tables, images and various other fields for easy identification.

Users have the option to upload text files, PDFs or excel sheets which are processed and are used as internal data for generating an investment note. There is also an option to paste the url and data will get extracted from them.

VC Deal Notebook file upload interface for PDFs, Excel sheets, and URL data extraction
VC Deal Notebook showing AI-generated investment categories with editing and selection options

When internal data is combined with uploaded documents, the system identifies and generates relevant categories— such as deal risk assessment, investment structure, management overview, and more. Users can select, add, or refine these categories to ensure completeness and accuracy. Once finalized, the selected categories are synthesized to produce a comprehensive perspective note which are used by the analysts.