AI adversarial due diligence for startup investing

Adversarial diligence

Run any pitch deck through a
5-agent adversarial audit on Zurvek.

Zurvek scans financials, defensibility, market benchmarks and deal risks — then delivers an IC-grade verdict in under 180 seconds.

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Threat surface — Ten dimensions the deck would rather you skipped.

Mention all. Miss none.

10 Risk Dimensions.5 Adversarial Agents.Zero Comfort.

If you've lost capital to any of these, you already know why this matters.

Team & Founder Risk

Founder-market misfit, key-person dependency, co-founder conflict, leadership gaps

Key-person dependency is the #1 undetected failure mode in seed-stage deals.

Market Validity

TAM inflation, adoption friction, timing mismatch, competitive saturation

TAM inflation detected in 61% of evaluated decks. Zurvek corrects it.

Product & Tech

Technical debt, build-vs-buy fragility, no defensible IP, scalability ceilings

No filed patent + outsourced core logic = zero IP score. Non-negotiable.

Financial Health

Burn rate unsustainability, revenue-expense contradiction, margin erosion

Real revenue vs. reported revenue discrepancy flags a Pf score above 0.6.

Valuation Fairness

Overvaluation vs. sector benchmarks, dilution vulnerability, cap table red flags

At 50x revenue multiples, a 10% fraud probability drops score by 18 points.

Execution Risk

Delivery compression, hiring bottlenecks, go-to-market failure patterns

Delivery timelines compress 3x under capital pressure. Zurvek models the gap.

Legal & Compliance

Regulatory exposure, IP ownership gaps, pending litigation signals

Undisclosed IP assignment gaps trigger automatic compliance flags.

Exit Pathway Risk

No viable acquirer landscape, IPO readiness gaps, liquidity timeline mismatch

Missing acquirer thesis = horizon scored 'indefinite', penalized in final Vₛ.

Cognitive Bias Alert

Confirmation bias in due diligence, halo effect, anchoring on vanity metrics

Anchoring, halo effect, and confirmation bias inflate 73% of failed deals.

Macro & ESG Exposure

Geopolitical sensitivity, supply chain fragility, ESG compliance gaps

Geopolitical sensitivity triggers mandatory ELEVATED status if omitted.

Team & Founder Risk

Founder-market misfit, key-person dependency, co-founder conflict, leadership gaps

Key-person dependency is the #1 undetected failure mode in seed-stage deals.

Market Validity

TAM inflation, adoption friction, timing mismatch, competitive saturation

TAM inflation detected in 61% of evaluated decks. Zurvek corrects it.

Product & Tech

Technical debt, build-vs-buy fragility, no defensible IP, scalability ceilings

No filed patent + outsourced core logic = zero IP score. Non-negotiable.

Financial Health

Burn rate unsustainability, revenue-expense contradiction, margin erosion

Real revenue vs. reported revenue discrepancy flags a Pf score above 0.6.

Valuation Fairness

Overvaluation vs. sector benchmarks, dilution vulnerability, cap table red flags

At 50x revenue multiples, a 10% fraud probability drops score by 18 points.

Execution Risk

Delivery compression, hiring bottlenecks, go-to-market failure patterns

Delivery timelines compress 3x under capital pressure. Zurvek models the gap.

Legal & Compliance

Regulatory exposure, IP ownership gaps, pending litigation signals

Undisclosed IP assignment gaps trigger automatic compliance flags.

Exit Pathway Risk

No viable acquirer landscape, IPO readiness gaps, liquidity timeline mismatch

Missing acquirer thesis = horizon scored 'indefinite', penalized in final Vₛ.

Cognitive Bias Alert

Confirmation bias in due diligence, halo effect, anchoring on vanity metrics

Anchoring, halo effect, and confirmation bias inflate 73% of failed deals.

Macro & ESG Exposure

Geopolitical sensitivity, supply chain fragility, ESG compliance gaps

Geopolitical sensitivity triggers mandatory ELEVATED status if omitted.

Who it is for — One engine, read differently by every desk.

■ Built for every institutional mandate

Seven desks. One Engine.

Seven buyer categories. One intelligence engine. Select your mandate.

FOUNDERS

Investors ghost decks they can't decode in 2 minutes.

Pre-scan your raise. Fix friction before they see it.READ MORE →
VC FIRMS

5,000+ decks/year. 2.4 minutes per deck.

INVEST signal in under 180 seconds.READ MORE →
ANGEL INVESTORS

Incomplete diligence drives most angel losses.

Structured protocol improves decision outcomes.READ MORE →
FAMILY OFFICES

Portfolio has secrets. NAV doesn't show them.

IRR scenarios. Bear/Base/Bull modelled live.READ MORE →
ACCELERATORS

300+ hours per batch on manual screening.

300 applications ranked in under an hour.READ MORE →
NBFCs

MSME lending decisions on gut feel.

Revenue triangulation. Registry discrepancy flags. 5 agents. 180 seconds.READ MORE →
PSU BANKS

Regulatory compliance starts at evaluation.

SEBI/RBI adverse-history prompts. Source-linked. Audit-grade output.READ MORE →

The protocol — Five agents argue. Then a verdict is issued.

Five Agents. One Verdict.

LIVE INTERROGATION. EVERY CLAIM CONTESTED.

NOT SUMMARIZATION. ADVERSARIAL INTERROGATION

See the five agents contest a real deck

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DATA POINTS
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REPRODUCIBLE
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BLACK BOXES

Trust signals and institutional backing

Global coverage and method integrity

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Adversarial review

Five agents interrogate the deck against each other, not a single summariser.

Zero inference

Missing data is reported as missing. Gaps are never filled with assumptions.

Immutable verdict

Every verdict is time-stamped and hashed, so it can be re-read exactly as issued.

T+12 integrity loop

Verdicts are re-checked against real outcomes twelve months later.

SYSTEM STATUS. ALL MODULES OPERATIONAL

1,081+

UNIQUE VISITORS

3,500+

TOTAL PAGEVIEWS

INTELLIGENCE MODULES ACTIVE

Portfolio — Forensics that keep running after the wire clears.

■ Zurvek Vault

Re-run portfolio evidence. Keep the record.

Vault applies the standard Zurvek evaluation pipeline to private portfolio documents, then preserves the resulting evidence lineage for committee review.

Evidence ingestion

Private PDF and spreadsheet evidence is read by the same five-agent pipeline used for live diligence.

Immutable lineage

Every completed run keeps its recorded conclusion, evidence fingerprint, and prior-run relationship.

Round-over-round review

New evidence creates a new evaluation. Earlier records remain intact for committee comparison.

Illustrative evidence brief

One record. Three structural lenses.

Evidence linked

Financial integrity

62

Recorded from source evidence

Technical viability

71

Structural signal, not a forecast

Commercial potential

54

Adoption friction remains visible

Illustrative values show the report structure only. Vault does not invent missing metrics, predict returns, or replace committee judgment.
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Exposure — Capital does not move in a vacuum.

Operations · Geopolitical Console · LiveNEW · JUNE 2026

The world moves. Your portfolio is exposed.

Live conflict telemetry. Hover a hotspot to trace capital exposure.

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SAT-LINK NOMINAL·--:-- UTC·SIGNAL 6 HOTSPOTS·FEED: LIVE
Active Hotspots · 6Telemetry · live

Synthesized by Zurvek Engine· Not editorial. Not advisory.

CENTRA — Ask the engine the question the memo avoided.

Centra. Institutional Q&A

The verdict answers what the deck conceals.

After every evaluation, Centra interrogates the gaps, what agents couldn't verify, what dark data absences mean, and what changes before you write the check.

Centra
SenseForge Technologies · Seed Round
2,847 / 40,000 tokens
YOU

Why was the MRR figure flagged as unverifiable?

Finding

The deck states Current MRR of ₹8,200. This figure is internally contradicted by a January 2023 date stamp on the same financial page, placing it over three years in the past. No updated revenue statement is provided anywhere in the document.

Evidence
pg.8

'Current MRR: ₹8,200', no date anchor on this figure.

pg.1

'Financials as of January 2023', three year lag confirmed.

pg.12

'Seed round: April 2025', this is a 2026 raise. The temporal contradiction is critical.

CRITICAL: Traction claim cannot be underwritten from available documents.

Implication

No verifiable current revenue exists in this document. Any valuation model built on this MRR figure carries an unquantified staleness risk. This is not a minor gap, it is a due diligence blocker.

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Request: Last 6 months GST filings or bank statements before proceeding to term sheet.

Medium Confidence
Suggested queries
Why was the MRR figure flagged as unverifiable?
What would need to change to move from WATCH to INVEST?
Which dark data absence carries the highest capital risk?
Confused what to ask? Centra ships with 74+ investor & founder prompts grouped by lens→
IC QUESTION. GENERATED FROM EVALUATION FLAGS

"Your deck states MRR of ₹47L. Our unit economics implies a CAC of ₹2.1L at your claimed conversion rate. Walk us through one complete customer acquisition cycle, actuals only."

↳ Fiscal Hawk: 34% burn discrepancy · 2 material omissions flagged
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Evidence — What the record shows.

SECTION // EVIDENCE OUTPUT

SYSTEM INTEGRITY: NOMINAL

REF: ZURVEK_CORE_V4.021

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Index.

Sustained across every evaluation conducted on the Zurvek Engine.

  • Claims assessed against source only
  • No industry average substitution
  • Absent data scored zero, never estimated
  • Cryptographic hash locks every verdict
ZURVEK™HASH-LOCKED

Protocol.

HASH-LOCKED VERDICT RECORD

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PREDICTION ACCURACY

Verdict.

T+0
T+3M
T+6M
T+12M

“You cannot backfill a prediction you didn't make. This moat is absolute.”

VERDICT INTEGRITY

HOW IT WORKS: Every verdict is cryptographically hash-locked and timestamped at issue, so it can be re-verified exactly as issued. Any later edit to the underlying evaluation breaks the hash. A downloadable Verdict Integrity Certificate records that hash, the timestamp and the claims audit for each evaluation.

Fit — Reasons not to buy this.

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Zurvek is NOTFor Everyone.

If you want validation, comfort, or 'Yes Men,' do not sign up.

We are an adversarial engine designed to find reasons to say NO. Our agents are programmed to stress-test every claim, challenge every assumption, and surface every risk before you write a check.

This is for investors who evaluate risk before conviction.

Zurvek doesn't tell you what to invest in. It shows you where you're most likely to regret a decision. If you want to see the blind spots before your IC meeting, we're built for you.

Drop your pitch deck, business plan, or CSV. Five free evaluations, each returned in a few minutes. No credit card required.

Access — Clearance tiers.

EXPLORER

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First contact with adversarial intelligence.

  • ›5 evaluations (free, lifetime)
  • ›SenseCore 5-agent protocol
  • ›Zurvek Score (0-100)
  • ›3 deal-breakers + 3 strengths
  • ›Zero-Inference Protocol
  • ›Geopolitical DEFCON status
  • ›Investment Memo on screen (download on paid tiers)
  • ›CENTRA — 10 questions (lifetime)
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Active deal flow. Individual investor or solo GP.

  • ›50 evaluations/month
  • ›Full 12-page Investment Memo
  • ›IC Question Generator
  • ›ForensicAuditLog with confidence scoring
  • ›Document Authenticity Analysis
  • ›Claim-Level Confidence Scoring
  • ›Similar Deal Pattern Detection
  • ›Verdict Accuracy Dashboard
  • ›Cohort Rank view (Pipeline)
  • ›Weekly Signal Digest
  • ›Deal Velocity Benchmark
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Deal leads, GPs, small fund committees.

  • ›300 evaluations/month
  • ›IRR Scenario Modelling (Bear/Base/Bull)
  • ›Verdict Integrity Certificate
  • ›MCA21 Discrepancy Flags (manual verification links)
  • ›Revenue Claim Triangulation
  • ›GST Compliance Prompts
  • ›Agent Contradiction Map
  • ›Founder Integrity Module
  • ›Committee Review Mode (3 committee seats)
  • ›Multi-seat team access (3 seats)
  • ›Batch Analytics Dashboard
  • ›LP-Reportable Quarterly Verdict Export
  • ›Slack + Email Webhook Alerts
  • ›Portfolio Thesis Drift Alerts
  • ›Mandate Configuration Panel
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ENTERPRISE
₹83,999/month · Unlimited decisions
≈ $999 · billed in INR

Funds managing >$10M AUM. IC-grade infrastructure.

  • ›Unlimited evaluations
  • ›SEBI/RBI Adverse History Check (guided, source-linked)
  • ›Custom Rubric Overlay
  • ›Reviewer Assignment Module
  • ›Multi-seat (unlimited seats)
  • ›Evidence Upload Expansion (bank statements, cap table, MCA filings)
  • ›API Access (100 req/day)Rolling out
  • ›White-Label mode (on request)Rolling out
  • ›DPIIT/Startup India Verification PromptsRolling out
  • ›Manual Data Override Panel
  • ›Portfolio CFO Mandate — your portfolio companies report financials to you automatically, every monthRolling out
  • ›Application Intake WebhookRolling out
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Custom pricing available for >$50M AUM funds

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ORIZIN — FOUNDER ACCESS

The same adversarial engine investors use, turned on your own deck before they see it.

  • ›5 evaluations free, lifetime
  • ›Deal-breakers and strengths on every round
  • ›Investment memo download on paid access
  • ›One-time payment — no subscription
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Questions

InterrogatingThe Interrogator.

THE MARKET HAS DATA.

IT DOES NOT HAVE JUDGMENT.

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