A personal assistant
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Instinct. Single-player: one person, working from what that person shares.
COMPARE
Capwave vs a personal AI assistant.Your assistant knows you.Capwave knows the firm.
Keep your assistant. Give it the firm's memory, from Claude or ChatGPT. Instinct is coming soon.
Illustrative comparison of a system of record and a Capwave work brief.
One waits for the question. One already did the work.
THE SHORT VERSION
An assistant answers. Capwave notices.
Capwave
The firm's memory, connected to every inbox, calendar, notetaker, data room, Slack and CRM, working for every seat before anyone asks.
WHILE NOBODY IS ASKING.
An assistant waits for a prompt.
Capwave notices what changed.
An assistant is only as good as your question. Capwave spends the night doing the investor work, and at 7:00 hands you only what needs you.
Illustration of overnight investor work and live CRM updates.
WHAT CAPWAVE ADDS
What Capwave does that an assistant doesn't.
NetworkIQ: runs the next round before the founder asks.
It spots the portfolio company nearing a raise, finds the investors who asked about the category, and drafts the intro. Your assistant knows your contacts. Capwave knows the firm's.
Illustrative product snippet.
Knows the whole firm.
What Sarah learned in March is there when the associate asks in October.
Illustrative product snippet.
Reads what reached the firm.
Every deck, data room and transcript, overnight. Not just what someone pasted in.
Illustrative product snippet.
Works before you ask.
The 7:00 brief, the 10:00 meeting briefed, every deal scored. No prompt.
Illustrative product snippet.
Follows through.
Holds the task until it closes. Drafted, waiting for your say-so.
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Stays when people leave.
Their chats leave. The reasoning and the promises stay.
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NETWORKIQ
The markup lands. So does your next fund.
Capwave builds a graph from everything the firm has touched. Not just who knows whom: who asked about what, when, and what you owe them. Then it acts.
Illustrative example. Fictional company and scenario.
Fictional portfolio fundraising brief illustrating sourced intelligence and approval-gated follow-through.
Then the follow-through
- 7:02
Intro drafted, in your words.
- 7:04
Sent, after your yes.
- Wed
Call booked. Brief before it.
- Fri
Data room checklist drafted for the founder.
- Q1
The round. The markup. Fund II.
The same graph, every week
Illustrative weekly network use cases for portfolio needs, warm deal paths, LP introductions and outstanding favours.
Nothing goes out without your say-so.
SIDE BY SIDE
What each one does.
YesPartlyNo
| Capability | A personal assistant | Capwave |
|---|---|---|
| Works for | One person. | The whole firm. |
| Reads | What you paste, upload or connect. | Everything that reaches the firm. |
| When it works | When you ask. | Before you ask. |
| Knows your thesis | If you explain it, in that chat. | Scores every deal against it. |
| Your network | Your contacts, if connected. | The firm's whole graph, intros drafted. |
| Follow-through | Answers, then moves on. | Holds every promise until it closes. |
| When someone leaves | Their chats go with them. | The firm keeps everything. |
| Your data | Depends on the plan. | Siloed, never trains, export anytime. |
Works for
A personal assistant
One person.
Capwave
The whole firm.
Reads
A personal assistant
What you paste, upload or connect.
Capwave
Everything that reaches the firm.
When it works
A personal assistant
When you ask.
Capwave
Before you ask.
Knows your thesis
A personal assistant
If you explain it, in that chat.
Capwave
Scores every deal against it.
Your network
A personal assistant
Your contacts, if connected.
Capwave
The firm's whole graph, intros drafted.
Follow-through
A personal assistant
Answers, then moves on.
Capwave
Holds every promise until it closes.
When someone leaves
A personal assistant
Their chats go with them.
Capwave
The firm keeps everything.
Your data
A personal assistant
Depends on the plan.
Capwave
Siloed, never trains, export anytime.
Illustration of a Capwave meeting brief built from firm context, prior commitments and source-backed questions.
HOW THEY CONNECT
Keep your assistant, add the firm's memory.
EmailGmail, Outlook
CalendarGoogle Calendar
Meeting notesGranola, Fireflies
Decks, data roomsDocSend
Team chatSlack, iMessage
CRMAttio, Affinity, HubSpot
Capwave
The whole firm. Reads, notices what changed, briefs and follows through.
You, at 7:00
Only what needs you
Answers, with sources
the firm's deals, people and promises.
Asks, through MCP
from the chat you already use.
Your assistant
Claude or ChatGPT. Instinct coming soon.
EmailGmail, Outlook
CalendarGoogle Calendar
Meeting notesGranola, Fireflies
Decks, data roomsDocSend
Team chatSlack, iMessage
CRMAttio, Affinity, HubSpot
Capwave
The whole firm. Reads, notices what changed, briefs and follows through.
Answers, with sources
the firm's deals, people and promises.
Asks, through MCP
from the chat you already use.
Your assistant
Claude or ChatGPT. Instinct coming soon.
You, at 7:00
Only what needs you
- What stays.
- Your assistant and what it knows about you. Keep it for the one-off, the brainstorm, the quick second opinion.
- What changes.
- The firm's knowledge stops living in one person's chat. It's read, scored and remembered for every seat.
- How they connect.
- Capwave speaks MCP. Ask about any deal, person, promise or LP path from Claude or ChatGPT. The answer is the firm's, with sources. Instinct is coming soon.
- For.
- Everyone who already lives in an assistant. Capwave is the memory. The assistant is how you talk to it.
- When the assistant alone is enough.
- One person, one question, nothing to remember next quarter.
"The USV investment process looks like an ongoing team conversation, and we now have agents that are part of that conversation."
Andy Weissman, Union Square Ventures
USV blog, "Meet the Agents", March 2026 ↗
"So much of what a venture capitalist firm is are its relationships with the world, because to build a company, you end up needing a lot of relationships."
Marc Andreessen, a16z
The Ben & Marc Show, reported by Fortune, May 2025 ↗
Public statements, quoted with attribution. Not endorsements.
A DAY WITH BOTH
Where the assistant stops and the firm begins.
Illustrative daily workflows and CRM updates.
Same chat. The firm's memory in it.
QUESTIONS
Questions firms ask.
Why not just give everyone ChatGPT?
Because it knows one person. The firm becomes the sum of what partners never told each other. Capwave is one memory for the whole firm, and it stays when people leave.
Can I use Capwave from Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes. Capwave speaks MCP. Ask about any deal, person or promise from the chat you already use, with sources. Instinct is coming soon.
Is Capwave built on the same models?
Yes, frontier models it doesn't own. What's Capwave's: the firm's memory, the connections, the thesis scoring, the network and the follow-through.
What happens to the firm's data?
It stays the firm's. Siloed, never used for training, export anytime. Nothing goes out without your approval.
Your assistant knows you.
Give it the firm.
Five minutes to connect. First brief tomorrow morning.