Thesis

Navigation Infrastructure for the Agent Economy

We built Maai by working inside real investment workflows — not demos. This thesis reflects what we've observed across VCs, PEs, and operators navigating deal flow at scale.

The Momentum Problem

Deals don't die because they're bad.

They die because momentum decays.

For investors, the most important signals live across meetings, follow-ups, research, networks, and CRM notes. But no one has time to continuously update context across all of them.

The result: strong opportunities quietly stall, follow-ups get dropped, risk goes unnoticed, and decision fatigue increases.

Why Tools Haven't Solved This

CRMs track static state.

BI tools explain the past.

Agents automate isolated tasks.

Meeting tools summarize conversations.

None answer the most important question: “What changed, why does it matter, and what should I do next?”

Meetings Are the Highest-Signal Input

Conviction, hesitation, urgency, and risk all surface in conversations.

But once the meeting ends, that signal evaporates.

Maai starts with meetings because they contain the richest, most actionable intelligence — and turns them into a living system that keeps opportunities moving forward.

The Navigation System

Signal Layer

Raw inputs from meetings, documents, markets, and systems — captured automatically.

Agent Layer

Persistent analysts that enrich, monitor, and suggest — within defined guardrails.

Navigation Layer

A governed decision surface that helps teams prioritize, re-route, and decide with context.

Our Approach

We build incrementally:

  • 1Start with a real workflow — not hypotheticals
  • 2Prove value — measure impact on decisions, not engagement
  • 3Compound capability — each workflow becomes infrastructure

No big-bang transformations. No black boxes.

Trust Through Control

Maai is designed for sensitive decision environments.

We start with the tightest possible controls: private by default, explicit sharing only, human-in-the-loop for all actions.

Governance scales as trust grows — not before.

Maai Momentum is where we start.

Deal momentum navigation is where we're going.