Shruti KaushikVC platform teams check AI drafts by saving only what is public or cleared: announced rounds, exact investor roles, approved fund statements and founder consent. Portfolio spotlights, newsletters and LP updates are then run through a claim check that flags unannounced rounds, inflated roles and performance claims before anyone reads them.
Where AI drafts go wrong for VC platform teams
Portfolio communications combine other people's news with your own claims. An assistant writing a spotlight will round up: a co-led round becomes a lead, a seed extension becomes a Series A, a founder's private metric becomes a headline. Announcing a portfolio company's round before the company does damages a relationship that took years to build.
Fund-level claims are a separate category. For registered investment advisers, the SEC's Marketing Rule governs advertisements, including performance presentation, so a sentence like "top-quartile fund" or an IRR needs approval from whoever owns compliance. An assistant has no idea which of your sentences count as advertising.
Claims an AI draft might invent for VC platform teams
These examples are invented for this page to show the pattern. They describe no real company, customer or result.
- "We led the Series B" when the fund participated.
- "Portfolio companies have created thousands of jobs" with no tally.
- "A top-quartile fund" with no approved statement.
- A portfolio company's unannounced round, mentioned in a newsletter.
- A founder quote taken from a private conversation.
The facts VC platform teams would save once
A saved fact is one sentence you can stand behind, with its source and date. Anything a draft claims that matches none of them is flagged.
- Announced rounds only, with the date of the company's own announcement.
- Your exact role in each deal: led, co-led, participated.
- Fund statements approved by compliance, word for word.
- Founder consent for any story or metric used.
- Portfolio counts with the date of the count.
- Topics the platform team never covers.
The workflow
- Maintain the saved facts as a public-information ledger, updated when a company announces.
- Draft spotlights, newsletters and event posts in your assistant.
- Run the claim check. Anything about a portfolio company that is not in the ledger is flagged.
- Send fund-level statements to compliance and portfolio stories to the founder, each for sign-off by private link.
- Publish, and keep the approval record.
The method is the one on the draft fact check page: Klype extracts the figures, guarantees, vague authority and stories in a draft, matches each to your saved facts and any source text you paste, flags what it cannot back, and keeps an approval record. It is rule-based, so the same text gets the same answer, and it never publishes or sends anything.
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What the check does not do
It compares claims with the facts you saved and any source text you paste. It does not browse the web, does not verify outside claims and does not replace legal, compliance or editorial review where your work needs it. When it finds nothing checkable, it says nothing was verified, so you still read every draft before it goes out.
Sources
Each source is cited for the single point made above. Klype does not give legal advice; ask your counsel how any rule applies to you.
Common questions
Is this a compliance tool for the Marketing Rule?
No. It checks claims against what you saved and records approvals. Whether a statement is an advertisement under the rule is a decision for your compliance officer and counsel.
How does the check know a round is public?
It does not. You save only announced rounds, with the date. A draft that mentions a round not in your ledger is flagged.
Can founders approve their own spotlight?
Yes, by private link, with no account needed. The record shows what they approved.
Where to go next
Read how the check works on the draft fact check page, or try the free post checker without signing up. Related guides: Klype for investor relations teams, Klype for comms and PR agencies, and Klype for AI startups. The full list is on the hub.