For investors: the pitch you remember is the one told best, not the one told most honestly
An investment team hears the same market story twelve times a quarter and remembers the best-delivered version. What decides the outcome is usually smaller: the metric that was described two different ways in two different calls, the diligence question answered with a story, the co-founder who went quiet when churn came up. Donna keeps every call in a searchable archive and reads each one for exactly those moments.
What this job loses without a real record
- Partner meeting relitigates a call from memory, with two partners remembering different numbers.
- A founder’s answer in the second call quietly contradicts the first, and nobody has both transcripts open.
- Follow-up materials promised on a call are never chased because no artefact recorded the promise.
The sections that earn their keep here
Applied in reverse: which of your diligence questions got a direct answer, which got a narrative, and which got a change of subject.
Both sides’ commitments — the data room access promised, the metrics they agreed to send, the intro you offered — quoted, dated and carried forward until they land.
A blunt temperature read with the evidence behind it, plus who on the founding team actually holds the decision — often the person who spoke least.
The lens that fits
The Dealmaker — Signals decoded, objections tracked, and whether the deal is actually alive. Investor pitches, sales demos and client presentations — rooms where one side wants something from the other. Donna selects it from the meeting itself, so nobody has to remember to switch modes.
The meetings behind it
Questions, answered straight
Can we search across every founder call we have taken?
Yes. Ask Donna runs natural-language questions over the whole archive and answers with quotes and meeting citations, so “which founders mentioned this competitor?” is a query rather than a project.
Is it appropriate to record a founder call?
With disclosure, which Donna makes unavoidable: she appears in the participant list by name and the host admits her. Many funds find the custody answer helps here — the recording lives on infrastructure the fund controls, not a consumer notetaker cloud.
Can partners read the analysis without access to the recording?
Yes. A read can be shared as a link or exported to PDF or Markdown independently of the recording, which stays where you put it.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.