VC Cabinet

A working operating system for an early-stage venture firm. Five agents run the four jobs that actually move a fund: find the next deal, protect the deals you've already done, know more than the room, and build a brand that makes founders come to you.

This template ships with a fictional fund — Northbound Capital, a seed-to-Series-A firm investing in applied AI and developer infrastructure — so every dashboard, brief, and pipeline card has realistic data to look at. Swap in your own thesis and portfolio in [[data/thesis]] and the data files, and the agents take it from there.

Keep your bank, your cap-table tool, your legal docs. Replace the deal-flow spreadsheet that goes stale, the portfolio check-ins you mean to do, the market research that never gets written, and the thought-leadership you keep promising yourself you'll post.

Why this gives VCs the "wow"

Venture is a game of three edges. This cabinet is built around all three:

1. Proprietary deal flow — the best deals never hit your inbox cold. The Deal Scout scores every inbound against your thesis and the Platform Lead publishes a daily point of view on your vertical, so founders find you. See [[deal-pipeline]] and [[content]].
2. Being a value-add investor — the Portfolio Partner watches every company's runway, milestones, and asks, and flags trouble before the board meeting. See [[portfolio-dashboard]].
3. Knowing more than the room — the Research Analyst turns a company name or a market question into a one-page brief or market map on demand. See [[research]].

The team

• [[.agents/managing-partner]] — The GP. Owns the thesis, runs the investment-committee call, makes the final call on every deal, and writes the quarterly LP update. Coordinates the other four agents (dispatch enabled).
• [[.agents/deal-scout]] — Sourcing and deal flow. Scores every inbound and outbound company against the fund thesis (1–100), maintains the pipeline through its stages, and writes the weekly deal review.
• [[.agents/portfolio-partner]] — Portfolio monitoring and support. Tracks KPIs, runway, milestones, and open asks for every portfolio company. Flags any company under 6 months of runway or off-milestone before it becomes a crisis.
• [[.agents/research-analyst]] — On-demand research. Produces company diligence briefs, competitive market maps, and vertical deep-dives the rest of the team draws on.
• [[.agents/platform-lead]] — Brand, content, and platform value-add. Drafts the daily X thread on the fund's vertical, runs PR and marketing for the fund and its portfolio, and supports talent and events.

Recurring rhythm

Cadence	Job	Owner	Output
Daily (08:00)	[[.jobs/daily-x-thread]]	Platform Lead	A ready-to-post X thread on the vertical in content/
Weekly (Mon 08:30)	[[.jobs/weekly-portfolio-health]]	Portfolio Partner	Health sweep + runway flags; refreshes [[data/portfolio]]
Weekly (Mon 09:00)	[[.jobs/weekly-deal-review]]	Deal Scout	Pipeline review memo; refreshes [[data/pipeline]]
Monthly (1st 09:00)	[[.jobs/monthly-sourcing-sweep]]	Deal Scout	New thesis-fit companies added to the pipeline
Quarterly (1st 10:00)	[[.jobs/quarterly-lp-update]]	Managing Partner	LP update letter in lp-updates/

How to run the demo

1. Open the [[portfolio-dashboard]] — the hero view. Portfolio company cards with KPIs, a runway gauge, status flags, and the next board date. Two companies are flagged: one short on runway, one off-milestone.
2. Open the [[deal-pipeline]] — the live deal-flow board. Inbound and sourced companies move left-to-right through Sourced → Screened → Diligence → IC → Term Sheet, each scored against the thesis.
3. Browse [[research]] — an example company diligence brief the Research Analyst produced.
4. Browse [[content]] — today's drafted X thread on the vertical, ready to post.
5. Read [[data/thesis]] — the fund thesis every agent scores and writes against. Edit this first to make the cabinet your own.

Connectors

Required: Deal-flow source (Affinity, Attio, or an inbound form), portfolio KPI source (founder updates, a shared metrics doc, or a tool like Visible/Quaestor), and an X / LinkedIn account for the Platform Lead to draft against. Recommended: Email (warm-intro tracking and founder threads), a calendar (board dates and IC scheduling), Crunchbase or PitchBook (sourcing and market sizing), and a fund-admin source (Carta, AngelList, or your LP portal) for LP-update numbers.

Heads up. The agents never invent numbers. If a connector isn't wired, the Portfolio Partner and Deal Scout log what's missing and escalate the config gap rather than fabricating metrics.

Related cabinets

• [[../investor-update]] — The founder side of the table. This cabinet reads updates like the ones that cabinet writes.
• [[../board-finance]] — Board packet and finance metrics; useful pattern for the portfolio KPI tables here.
• [[../competitive-intelligence]] — Deeper market and competitor tracking the Research Analyst can lean on.