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FirstSignal
VC Brain · Maschmeyer
live corpus ready

Evidence-first founder discovery

find the founder
before the raise.

Set a thesis, ask in plain language, open a diligence brief with independent axes, claim trust, and citations — missing data stays missing, never invented.

firstsignal · brief
Founder
72
Market
neutral
Idea fit
watch
GitHub activity corroboratedok
Traction claim contestedflag
arXiv market signalok

Why this exists

Diligence fails when memory, proof, and disagreement are missing.

Signals without memory

GitHub stars, papers, and launches scatter across tabs. Nothing remembers a founder across ships.

Claims without proof

Deck numbers float free of sources. Contradictions stay invisible until diligence is late and expensive.

Scores without axes

One blended rating hides where the risk lives. Founder, market, and idea-fit must disagree in public.

What ships

From thesis to defensible memo.

Outbound radar
taps
thesis → pool
ships
ranked founders
Semantic ask
taps
plain language
ships
evidence-gated plan
Three-axis brief
taps
assess + validate
ships
independent states
Citation drawer
taps
claim → span
ships
lineage replay

start with a thesis. end with citations.

Let's Begin jumps into the live outbound pool. Plan Search configures stage, geography, sectors, and check size first.