We are launching askOdin tomorrow, and there couldn't be a better day to share our story with PH Community.
We, the askOdin team, envisioned Clarity engine on 4 US prov. patents naming Rune, Raven, Norn and Judge about 2 years ago, all of them to bring determinism to the diligence process that, if performed by this system, it highlights investment readiness of a pitch plan with a traceable data graph, auditable brief and defensible score.
While we designed Clarity we were confronted with a problem the LLMs weren't addressing, how to make all output traceable, defensible and auditable, this is of an utmost importance in the financial world. Example, if tracing ones path towards a decision isn't auditable, that decision is more of a gut feel. Such decisions carry maximum risk in financial compliance.
It is this risk load that's generally transferred to founders, by means of investment rejection, without exactly explaining what went wrong or how to improve their business plan or is it even viable. This formed the basis of askOdin. We formed Crucible and Clarity out of Clarity engine to attend to two distinct user-base, Founders and Investors.
Crucible solves the above problem for founders by giving them critical feedback as an successful investor, the feedback is divided into multiple segments including business physics, solution logic and market evidence, while flagging all brittle assumption that make or break the business. Best part is, it needs no login, no data retention, and has zero price tag for usage. Clarity on the other hand is the enterprise layer, highly customized for investors. It helps them find invest-able firms on the data rooms they share for diligence.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 we are founders of askOdin, YekSoon (YS) alongside Dhiraj Wohra (DK).
After 20 years as an operator, DRM infrastructure architect (acq. by Microsoft), and angel investor (3PAR, Twilio, Cloudflare), I realized a hard truth: the bottleneck in venture capital isn’t information. It’s judgment.
Frontier AI models can summarize a 50-page data room in seconds, but they can’t tell you whether to write the check. So, we built askOdin to scale judgment.
We wrote our core runtime in Go and filed 4 patents to make this deterministic, not probabilistic. Here is how it works:
The Wedge (Crucible™): Founders, this is for you. Upload your deck & financial model to find structural flaws before the partner meeting. It’s completely free. We stress-test your physics against 100,000+ venture failures.
The Engine (Clarity™): For VCs. Ingests full data rooms to output a deterministic 0-100 score with an auditable, hash-anchored verification trail.
The Standard (VERIFY™): Portable judgment credentials modeled on Moody’s.
🎁 PH Community Deal: We are offering the PH community investors 1 month free on our Core Clarity LICENSE or 1 Institutional grade Clarity brief (Use code: PH1MOFF on 'Contact us' form on https://askOdin.app).
Founders: Drop your deck into Crucible today. I’ll be in the comments all day to hear your thoughts, feedback, and structural critiques! Let's stress-test your narrative together. 🚀
Hey Product Hunt community! 👋
I’m YekSoon, Founder and CEO of askOdin.
After analyzing thousands of pitch decks, we identified a massive pattern: median narrative clarity sits at just 35/100, and 70% of decks fall below investment grade. The problem usually isn't a bad idea—it’s uninspectable judgment and unverified assumptions.
Standard AI wrappers spit out high-level summaries, but private capital requires auditability. That’s why we built askOdin, a deterministic judgment layer designed for both sides of the table:
🔥 For Founders (Crucible Engine): 100% free pitch deck stress-testing. Expose logic gaps, weak market assumptions, and narrative friction before taking investor meetings.
📊 For VCs & Analysts (Clarity Engine): Institutional risk scoring with complete audit logs so you can verify claims, evaluate deal memos, and inspect every piece of underlying logic.
🎁 Special Launch Offer for Hunters:
We’re offering 1 Free Full Pitch Deck Stress-Test & Audit Report for all founders, plus 30 Days Extended Pro Access for investors and analysts trying out the platform today.
Try it out at https://crucible.askodin.app, test your deck through Crucible, and let us know your feedback, questions, or critiques in the comments below! We’ll be here all day answering questions.
@ys_askodin Thanks YS..
The emphasis on auditable judgment is what stood out here. I upvoted askOdin. Giving founders a way to identify weak assumptions before pitching could make the feedback much more actionable.
@spotch_founder Thanks for the upvote Nick.. exactly our intent.. hope founders find it useful..
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Congrats on the launch from the Signify team! 🚀
Searching through fragmented docs and internal knowledge bases is always a pain point as teams grow, so having an AI assistant that delivers instant answers is a huge win.
Upvoted, and hoping you guys hit the top of the leaderboard today! 🙌