Seed 1-5 founders · pre-PMFPre / post-revenue UK + US incorp8h → 35min Investor update prep0 hires Ops headcount, year one
The seed-stage startups stack
Six instruments, calibrated.
UK seed founders — first 12-18 months — investor reporting, hiring funnel, EMI scheme, R&D credits, runway dashboard. Pre-PMF, post-paperwork.
01 · Investor monthly update
Pulley + custom — drafted, edited, sent.
Stripe revenue, Linear shipping cadence, Pulley cap-table moves — pulled into a draft update the founder edits in fifteen minutes, not three hours of Sunday night.
Stripe revenue + cohort pull
Linear / GitHub shipping summary
Pulley cap-table sync
Investor-update draft generator
02 · Runway + cash
Mercury, Tide, Brex (US) — reconciled live.
Live cash across UK and US bank rails, payroll, recurring vendor cost, hire-trigger threshold model. The runway view the founder needs before the next board call.
Mercury / Tide / Brex (US) reconciliation
Live burn & runway tracking
Hire-trigger threshold model
Forecast vs actuals
03 · Hiring funnel
Pinpoint or Ashby, founder-readable.
Pipeline → offer → onboard, on one founder dashboard. Every candidate, every stage, every offer letter. Day-one onboarding doc auto-issued.
EMI valuations before each grant, share certs and SH01s filed, cap table source-of-truth chosen and maintained. The deadlines you cannot miss, never missed.
Pulley / Capdesk / Carta cap-table
EMI scheme & HMRC valuation
Founder share certs & SH01s
US Delaware flip prep (when ready)
05 · R&D + tax credits
Counsel + custom — window, evidence, claim.
R&D credit window tracked, technical evidence captured as the engineering happens, claim package built with counsel — not reconstructed by Excel in March.
R&D tax credit timeline
Live technical-evidence capture
Counsel pipeline (claim package)
HMRC enquiry-ready evidence
06 · BrainBase
Investor data room, customer playbook, founder docs.
The institutional memory of a startup before the institution exists — investor data room, customer playbook, internal SOPs — searchable, version-tracked, owned.
Investor data room (live)
Customer playbook library
Founder-doc index
AI-assisted retrieval
Sample engagement
The four-staff seed startup that got Sundays back.
Four staff. Forty customers. Investor updates written by hand on Sunday nights.
A four-person seed startup was burning Sundays on investor decks, copying Stripe numbers into Notion, manually pasting Pinpoint pipeline into a board doc. Two-week build: Stripe + Linear + Pulley pull into a monthly update draft, Pinpoint wired to a founder pipeline view, EMI valuation calendar, R&D evidence-capture pipeline. Six months in: investor update prep dropped from eight hours to thirty-five minutes, ATS audit-ready before Series-A diligence, runway and hire-trigger live on one screen.
How we measure: Update prep measured wall-clock from data-pull to send across six monthly cycles pre vs post build; founder hours saved tracked across two founders over 12 weeks.
8h → 35mininvestor update cycle
0 hiresops headcount, year one
0 missedEMI / R&D deadlines
Builds for startups
Use cases that fit.
Each is a tightly-scoped build, fixed price, owned by you.