KarlyVetting · Private Diligence Desk

The claims are the test set.

An integrity layer for early-stage diligence. A founder states their headline claims; every claim is tested against public registries, the code itself, and the founder's own answers under questioning. Findings are graded, sourced, and reproducible — nothing without its receipt.

What a run produces

One dossier per company. It opens with a verdict, not a summary:

PROCEED
3 of 4 gate questions pass on independent evidence · 15 checks recorded · every finding carries its recompute path

A no-go is a first-class outcome, delivered politely and with its reasons. The desk's reputation is candor without contempt.

The pipeline

  1. Intake — the founder states ten headline claims in their own words. Those claims become the test set for everything after.
  2. The Gate — public-surface checks: entity registries, domain age, site liveness, repository provenance. Four questions any serious company survives.
  3. Repo report — not “is the code good” but “does the code support the claims.” Claimed features are located and enumerated; claimed scale is checked against the schema.
  4. Founder interview — a recorded, consented voice interview. Key facts are re-asked in different framings at different points; drift is flagged. Some questions have answers we already know.
  5. Consistency & score — intake × artifacts × interview, cross-checked three ways. Conflicts are quoted verbatim. No naked scores.
  6. Dossier — a five-minute briefing over a full evidence ledger, delivered privately to the desk.

Evidence, graded

A independently verifiable — registries, third-party timestamps, reproducible enumeration
B corroborated — consistent across two or more sources under our control
C asserted — the founder's word, awaiting corroboration

The word verified appears only on A-grade findings. Every finding ends with the exact command that reproduces it:

$ git rev-list --count HEAD          # claimed commit history
$ pytest --collect-only -q | tail -1  # claimed test count — by the claim's own method

How the desk operates

Private by default.

Dossiers are never public. Reports are delivered by expiring, signed link to the desk that commissioned them — there is no directory, no permalink, no index.

Consent before substance.

Interviews open with a recording disclosure and a verbal yes, captured on the recording itself. No consent, no interview — and the declined consent is itself recorded as evidence, never dropped.

Companies, not consumers.

The desk vets companies and their public claims. Principal screens stick to public registries and sanctions lists; this is not a consumer background check and is never used as one.

Append-only ledger.

Every artifact is hashed at capture and stored immutably. Corrections append; they never overwrite. The ledger is the authoritative record, not the report.

Engagement

The desk runs by introduction. If a company has been referred to you and you want it vetted — or a founder has asked to be vetted ahead of a raise — write to rgero215@gmail.com with the company name and the claims you want tested.