Strategy & Funding Task
Prepare an investor diligence record
A serious investor requests evidence, while document ownership, completeness, exceptions, and disclosure limits are unclear.
“This is costing response time and creating avoidable disclosure, privacy, and consistency risk right now.”
The result you need
Answer each authorised request with a current source, owner, review status, visible exception, and limited access.
What is happening now
Where the work gets stuck
An authorised investor starts diligence or requests company evidence.
- When it starts
- A request arrives, a term sheet starts diligence, or conflicting documents surface.
- What makes it difficult
- Reactive sharing can expose restricted information, conceal open issues, or send inconsistent versions without explaining exceptions.
- What progress looks like
- Every request has an authoritative owner, approved document, exception status, recipient boundary, and access record.
What to try next
Build a controlled diligence request register
Connect each authorised request to an authoritative document, owner, exception, and access boundary.
Before you act
Check these limits
- Keep Finance ownership of cash flow, runway, bookkeeping, spend, and accounting.
- Keep Sales ownership of customer acquisition and Product ownership of discovery and roadmap delivery.
- Use founder accounts as bounded evidence. Do not generalise them to every founder or entrepreneur in residence.
- Do not create offers, solicitations, term advice, investment or valuation benchmarks, legal interpretations, or automated decisions.
- Independent counsel and the qualified advisers for each applicable jurisdiction must review every external communication and transaction decision before use.
Sources
Check the research behind this advice
Read the sources before relying on a claim or recommendation.