Venture Capital

Know the product & tech reality before the term sheet. Price it into the deal.

From pre-LOI X-Ray to portfolio benchmarking — we give you the technical picture that changes how you filter, how fast you move, and how you negotiate.

How it works↓What investors say

The timing problem

Technical findings arrive after you've already committed.

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Tech findings arrive after you've committed to a valuation.

Traditional due diligence happens after the LOI. By then the valuation is set, the relationship is established, and any findings reduce you to a negotiation you've already lost.

02

Competitive processes don't give you weeks. They give you days.

The deals worth having move fast. Waiting 3–6 weeks for a tech read means missing the window — or betting on a 2-hour CTO call and hoping for the best.

03

AI means every company now looks more capable than it is.

A small team can build something that looks enterprise-grade from the outside. The delta between pitch and technical reality has never been larger — and it's growing.

How it works

Three stages. From first look to portfolio value.

Always starts with an X-Ray. Everything deeper is built on what we find there.

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Pre-LOI X-Ray

Full product & tech assessment in 1 business day. Non-intrusive — the target's team doesn't even notice. Two reports: one for your deal team, one for the company.

  • ✓Architecture, security, delivery & team
  • ✓AI readiness score
  • ✓IC-ready in 24 hours
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Due Diligence Add-on

Go deeper when the deal warrants it. Operator-led interviews cross-referenced against X-Ray data. Financial impact analysis. Risk-mitigation matrix.

  • ✓Operator-led technical interviews
  • ✓Financial impact per finding
  • ✓IC-ready in 1–2 weeks
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Portfolio Platform

After 5+ scans, portfolio-level patterns emerge. Compare X-Ray results across companies. Spot which ones need attention before problems become capital events.

  • ✓Portfolio-wide benchmarking
  • ✓Pre-LOI pipeline scanning
  • ✓Framework agreements for volume
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What investors say

In their own words.

Dorus OlgersNewion

Due Diligence

“Scaleflow brings speed, depth, and a clear focus on business goals — which is why we rely on them for our light scans and due diligence.”

Dorus Olgers

Partner · Newion

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Placeholder NamePlaceholder Fund

Pre-LOI

“Their X-Ray gave us a clear picture of the tech risk before we committed. The verdict was actionable on day one.”

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Managing Director · Placeholder Fund

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Negotiation

“We used the X-Ray to pressure-test a deal. The findings shaped our entire term sheet negotiation.”

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Investment Director · Placeholder Fund

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Speed

“Within 24 hours we had a verdict we could act on. That speed and clarity is hard to find anywhere else.”

Placeholder Name

Partner · Placeholder Fund

Placeholder PartnerPlaceholder Capital

Pipeline

“Speed in the deal process is what matters. Scaleflow gives us a tech view before the term sheet — not after. That changes how we filter deals and how fast we move.”

Placeholder Partner

Partner · Placeholder Capital

The X-Ray

A hands-off diagnosis. AI-powered. Operator-verified. In 1 business day.

  • ✓The target connects their code — or we work from what's publicly available
  • ✓We ingest the dataroom — Notion, Confluence, pitch decks
  • ✓AI runs 250+ checks across the target's full stack
  • ✓Our operators verify every finding — IC-ready within 1 business day
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Pillar scores

250+ dimensions across the target's stack, each with a deal-relevant verdict.

Architecture
78
Security
61
Team & Delivery
88
AI Readiness
72
Code Quality
91

Benchmark

Co. F
92
This co.
78
Co. A
76
Co. D
71
Co. B
64
Co. C
55

Ranked 2nd of 6 · anonymised

Findings

A verdict on every pillar, not a list of observations.

Architecture

Investable with conditions

78

Security

Caution — auth gaps found

61

Team & Delivery

Strong — above benchmark

88

AI Readiness

Moderate — gaps in governance

72

Code Quality

Strong — clean codebase

91

Gap closing over time

Prove the gap is closing. Rescan to show progress — in data, not slide decks.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAmbitionReality

Delivered in 1 business day

Four layers, four audiences — one complete picture.

Executive Presentation

Verdict + scored pillars

Mitigations Document

Prioritised fixes for CTO

Clarification Questions

AI-generated, sent in-platform

Raw Evidence

Code-level data for deep DD

How it works

From activation to verdict.
One business day.

You

Activate an X-Ray

Select a target, add your investment thesis, key questions, and any docs. We take it from there.

New X-Ray

TargetVertex
StageSeries A
SectorB2B SaaS
ThesisPre-LOI confidence check
VCInvestment thesis.pdf
VCKey risk questions.docx
VCPitch deck · Vertex.pdf
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Company

Sign NDA & connect code

NDA signed same day — use our template or yours. Target connects repositories (read-only, under 30 min) and adds any technical docs.

Repository access

vertex/backendTypeScriptConnected
vertex/frontendReactConnected
vertex/infraTerraformPending

From company

CoArchitecture overview.pdf
CoAPI documentation.md
X-Ray

AI scan + operator verification

250+ automated checks run across all pillars. Our senior operators then review every finding — adding context, catching edge cases, and signing off on the verdict.

Scan progress

247 / 250

Architecture
78
Code Quality
91
Security
61
AI Readiness
72
Team & Delivery
88

Operator notes

⚠

Security score adjusted

Auth issue pre-dates team — not systemic

✓

Crown jewel identified

Real-time data pipeline — rare at this stage

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Context added

Monolith is intentional — roadmap shows migration

Company

Questions to the company

Where the scan raises questions, we send them directly to the company. They answer in the platform — structured, traceable, fast.

DD questions

3 pending

What is the plan for the auth layer migration?

Answered

Who owns the data pipeline and what is the bus factor?

Answered

Are there existing SLAs for enterprise clients?

Pending
You

Investor Verdict

Verdict, risk rating, crown jewels, and how the tech maps to the deal. IC-ready — no technical background needed.

Investor Verdict · Vertex

Confidential

Investable with conditions

Security remediation required pre-close

76

Architecture
78
Security
61
Team & Delivery
88
Share withIC membersCo-investorsBoard
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Company

Full Findings & Actions

Every finding with code references and a remediation path. Released to the company at your discretion — before or after close.

Full Findings · Vertex

VC releases
High

Auth tokens stored in local storage

auth/session.ts:42

Med

No rate limiting on public API endpoints

api/routes.ts:118

Low

Lodash 4.17.11 — CVE-2021-23337

package.json

Delivered toCTOEngineering leadFounding team
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You

Debrief — your deal team

We walk through every finding with your deal team. Ask anything. We translate technical risk into investment language.

On the call

X-Ray Team

Walking through findings

You

Lead investor

Deal team

IC members

Company

Separate debrief — optional

If useful, the X-Ray team can do a separate debrief with the company's CTO. Completely optional — and kept separate from your investor debrief.

Optional — company debrief

X-Ray Team

Walking through findings

Vertex CTO

Technical lead

Kept separate from your investor debrief.

You

Optional: Product & Tech Due Diligence

Not part of the X-Ray. A separate, deeper engagement when the deal warrants it — operator interviews, architecture deep-dives, IC-ready package.

Due Diligence — add-on

Avg. 2 weeks from X-Ray verdict

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Operator interviews

CTO + lead engineers, structured

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Architecture deep-dive

Full system walkthrough

⊡

Expanded X-Ray

Deeper checks, more pillars

✦

IC-ready package

Verdict, risk rating, recommendation

Used when the deal warrants deeper scrutiny — post-term-sheet or pre-close.

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250+

Companies assessed

5,000+

Recommendations delivered

1 day

Pre-LOI turnaround

100%

Partner repeat rate

If you could get a tech read before the LOI, would that change how you filter deals?

Traditional DD takes 3–6 weeks. Competitive processes leave days. We deliver in 1.

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