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Investor Update Drafter

AI-drafted monthly investor updates that write themselves from your live metrics — tone toggles, send history, one-click delivery.

Client:Venture-backed startup (NDA)
Duration6 weeks
ScopeFrontend MVP for a portfolio of LP communications

// Six metrics, six sparklines, one button — draft starts from the dashboard

// the numbers

Figures from the engagement, shared under NDA.

We publish them unchanged and can’t break them down any further here. The reference build you can open runs entirely on sample data.

<2 minDrafted in
12+LPs reached
01In brief

If you read one part of this page, read these 3 lines.

  • Auto-drafted from live metrics in under 2 minutes
  • Tone presets — Concise, Detailed, Punchy, Vulnerable
  • Send history with open rates and reply tracking
02Overview

What it does — and which part of it we built.

Pulls live metrics from your stack and drafts a ready-to-send investor update every month.

Toggle tone (Concise, Detailed, Punchy, Vulnerable), pick which sections matter, send to your LP list — all in under two minutes.

03The screens

Every screen here is from the reference build, not the client’s system.

The captions say what you are looking at. Every name and record on them is sample data.

04Outcomes

What the engagement left the client with.

  • Founder time on monthly updates dropped from 2 hours to under 15 minutes
  • LP open rates above 90% across the first three months
  • Recipient management absorbed into the same workflow
05How it is built

The stack was picked per constraint, not per house habit.

4 technologies across 1 layers — the shape of the stack follows the problem.

Frontend & Mobile
Next.jsTailwindFramer MotionTypeScript
Every feature in the build (5)
  • Auto-drafted monthly updates from live metrics
  • Tone presets: Concise, Detailed, Punchy, Vulnerable
  • Section toggles: Highlights, Lowlights, Asks, Hiring
  • Send history with open rates and reply tracking
  • Recipient management with avatar pile and segments
// see for yourself

Don’t take our word for it — it is running in the frame below.

This is the same page the provenance block links to: our reference build for Investor Update Drafter, with its own look, copy and motion. Scroll inside it, or open it full-screen.

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