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// USE CASE · INVESTOR

Screen every deal with a partnerthat cites every source.

You see 80 to 120 inbound decks a month and most of them die in your inbox because there is no time to read past slide 4. Melaya gives you a four persona crew that triages decks against your thesis, runs the market map, stress tests the claim, scores the founder backchannel, and drafts the IC memo with citations. Every memo names the source slide, the comparable, the FRED series, the paper. You decide which three companies get a check.

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// What breaks today

The status quo costs more than the agent does.

Three pains every sales and BD team hits weekly. Each one is what your reps actually complain about, not what a feature page would call them.

  1. 01

    You see 100 inbound decks a month and 70 of them never get past slide 4 because the reading queue keeps growing while the thesis work waits for Friday.

  2. 02

    A founder backchannel takes 6 calls to do right, so you skip it on the borderline deals and pass on the one that later raises a hot Series B without you.

  3. 03

    Last cycle's pass notes live in a Notion you never open, so the same founder pings you again, and you re-research the company from scratch instead of opening last quarter's memo.

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// Pipelines you can build

Compose. Approve. Replay.

Every pipeline below is a shape you wire on the canvas using the crew and tools further down. Not a feature we ship for you, a pattern you configure.

P01

Triage inbound decks against thesis

On deck arrival in Gmail or Drive, MarketAnalyst scores it against your written thesis, stage filter, and check size band, and writes a 6 line pass or pursue note. Static context holds the thesis so scoring stays consistent across the 100 decks you see this month.

P02

Run a category market map

MarketAnalyst lists 15 to 30 comparable companies by funding stage, revenue multiple, and product wedge. The scoped EDGAR and scraping tools restrict reads to public filings and your allowlist, so no unreleased competitive intel ever leaves the run.

P03

Score the founder backchannel

LinkedIn search and prior memo retrieval surface 8 ranked operator references for a founder. The rag_retrieve tool pulls every past touchpoint with the same operator so you walk into the call already knowing the texture of the prior relationship.

P04

Stress test the investment thesis

LiteratureSpecialist surfaces papers that argue against the deal's core claim, MacroEconomist names 3 macro events that would invalidate the timing, DataScientist proposes a falsifiable kill metric. The HITL gate forces you to sign off on the kill criteria before the memo ships.

P05

Track portfolio KPI on a schedule

DataScientist normalizes monthly founder updates into a single KPI table with ARR growth, burn multiple, net new logos, and runway. Cross-run memory tracks which metrics each portfolio company actually reports so missing updates flag automatically.

P06

Draft the quarterly LP report

Pulls the portfolio KPI table, this quarter's new positions, and the macro frame into a one page LP letter with benchmark in line one. HITL gate blocks export until you approve every number and every cited source, so nothing goes to LPs without your sign off.

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// The crew

Research and analyst crew

Real personas from the research_team crew. Each ships with a tuned system prompt and a default tool allowlist. Swap models per persona on the canvas.

Market Analyst

MarketAnalyst

Builds the category read for a deal with funding rounds, comparable revenue multiples, on-chain or product usage signals, and a named TAM ceiling with stated risks.

Data Scientist

DataScientist

Proposes a falsifiable KPI definition per deal, normalizes cohort and retention math across decks, and writes the pseudo code a portfolio dashboard can run on a schedule.

Literature Specialist

LiteratureSpecialist

Reads academic and industry research that supports or contradicts a thesis, scores replication quality, and always surfaces one paper that argues against the deal.

Macro Economist

MacroEconomist

Sets the capital cycle frame with Fed reaction function, DXY trend, and a 30 day calendar of macro events that move venture pricing and sector timing.

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// Scoped tools

Only the actions you grant.

Every tool below is a real shared tool from the Melaya bundle. Allowlist per agent; HITL-gate the writes; revoke any of them in one click.

shared/tools/core/

General search, structured fetch, and local file reads for all four personas. pause_for_human is the explicit HITL node that holds every memo, send, and LP draft until you approve.

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shared/tools/sec_edgar_tools/

MarketAnalyst pulls public comparable filings, S 1 prospectuses, and insider Form 4 data for category benchmarks. Read only, so no write gate is needed.

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shared/tools/fred_tools/

MacroEconomist queries FRED for rates, venture funding indices, and release calendars with the series id cited in every macro paragraph of the memo. Read only.

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shared/tools/arxiv_tools/

LiteratureSpecialist scans recent papers in the deal's technical category, scores replication quality, and lists one contradicting paper per thesis. Read only.

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shared/tools/openalex_tools/

Tracks citation graphs around a founder's prior research or a category claim so LiteratureSpecialist can name the original work behind a pitch's footnote.

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shared/tools/scraping/

Pull product launch coverage, hiring page snapshots, and category news for the market map. Scoped per agent to an allowlist you set, never grants drafting personas a write tool.

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shared/tools/social_linkedin/

Search LinkedIn for founder backchannel targets, prior employer connections, and operator references. Read only in this bundle, no write tool is granted, so nothing can DM a reference without you.

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shared/tools/knowledge/

Build the per workflow knowledge store from past memos, pass notes, founder updates, and your thesis document. Powers Static context, rag_retrieve, and Cross-run memory.

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// Three knowledge layers

The crew reads what you give it.

Every pipeline ships with three layers of knowledge access. Mix and match per agent on the canvas. No shared vector space with another tenant, no surprise reads, no opaque retrieval.

L1

Static context

includeContext

Per-pipeline documents appended to specific agents' input on every run. The ICP brief, playbook, pricing sheet, or won-deal email corpus. Whatever needs to be there before the agent thinks. You pick which personas get which docs.

L2

RAG retrieval tool

rag_retrieve

A scoped tool granted per-agent. When the agent decides it needs more depth, it queries the workflow's vector store on demand. Same knowledge base as Static context, accessed only when the model asks for it.

L3

Cross-run memory

pipeline_memory

Pipeline-level state that carries from one run to the next. Yesterday's research is in scope for today's follow-up. The crew remembers what it already prospected, what got approved, what was sent. The audit log is the second-order knowledge base.

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// FAQ

Questions we get every week.

Will the agent send notes or commitments to founders on its own?

No. Every outbound write, every IC memo export, and every LP report stops at a HITL gate. The crew prepares the deal screen, the reference plan, and the draft memo. You approve before anything reaches the founder, your partners, or your LPs.

Can the agents reason over my deal flow, CRM, and past memos?

Three ways. Static context attaches your thesis, check size band, and stage filter to every persona on every run. The rag_retrieve tool lets MarketAnalyst and LiteratureSpecialist pull from past memos, founder updates, and prior diligence files on demand. Cross-run memory means last quarter's pass on a company is in scope when the founder pings you again.

Is this an Affinity alternative or a Harmonic alternative?

It sits next to them. Affinity holds your relationship graph, Harmonic surfaces companies before they fundraise. Melaya is the reasoning layer that screens the deck, runs the market map, scores the founder backchannel, and writes the cited memo, while Affinity stays the system of record.

How does this compare to PitchBook, Tracxn, or Crunchbase?

PitchBook, Tracxn, and Crunchbase are data feeds and search surfaces. Melaya treats them as scoped tools any persona can call, then composes a workflow on top that runs MarketAnalyst, DataScientist, and LiteratureSpecialist on a schedule and writes the brief with sources cited inline.

Is this overkill if I am a solo angel or a one person syndicate lead?

No. The crew runs as 4 personas on a canvas, not 4 seats on a SaaS. A solo angel typically uses the deck triage workflow and the founder backchannel workflow, skips portfolio KPI and LP letter pipelines, and pays for one tenant. The same canvas grows when you raise a fund vehicle.

How do we keep the memo from sounding like AI?

Drafts cite specific paragraphs from the deck, FRED series ids for macro claims, arXiv or SSRN identifiers for category research, and named operators from the reference list. LiteratureSpecialist must surface one contradicting paper per thesis, so the tone reads as a working partner note instead of a confident summary.

Which models can I run the crew on?

Any. Claude on LiteratureSpecialist and the memo synthesizer where long context and reasoning quality earn the cost, GPT on DataScientist for KPI code drafting, a local Ollama on MarketAnalyst when the data room contents cannot leave your machine. Each persona picks its own model.

How fast can I get the first pipeline running on inbound decks?

With a Gmail inbox and a Google Drive folder connected, the deck triage workflow is a 4 node canvas: ingest deck, score against thesis, draft pass or pursue note, stage for your review. Most investors ship it in a working session and clear the first 20 deck backlog the same day.

Can I audit exactly what the agent decided and why?

Every run logs every tool call, every retrieved chunk, every model invocation, and every approval. Replay any run to see which deck slide, which FRED series, which paper, and which reference call drove the verdict. The audit log is the IC memo trail.

Can I restrict which agents can read the data room?

Yes. agent_tools allowlists are scoped per persona, so MarketAnalyst can read public filings while only the deal lead persona holds the scoped reader for the founder data room. The canvas shows the gate before a run starts.

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