Sidekick Partners AI Scout

How It Works

Every morning Scout reads SEC filings, startup launches, funding news, the App Store charts, and the funds around Sidekick. It resolves what it finds into one card per real company, scores each one for thesis fit with a breakdown anyone can open, writes a one-line "why it fits", and checks it against the 86 portfolio companies. The Spotlight is picked by rules, never AI. Votes are shared: every visitor sees the same counts, and the votes nudge the scores (by at most 15 points).

Sources

• SEC EDGAR: the daily Form D and Form C index, filing details and full-text search
• Hacker News, Y Combinator's company list, Product Hunt, App Store charts
• Google News, Google Trends' daily feed, and industry news: Modern Retail, Retail Dive, Food Dive, NOSH, BevNET, Glossy, Beauty Independent, Healthcare Dive, Practical Ecommerce, Payments Dive, Fintech Business Weekly, Insurance Journal, TechCrunch Venture, Crunchbase News
• Fund watch: news, blogs, newsletters, videos and Form D filings for about 78 funds
• Sidekick itself: its portfolio page
• Off by default (Settings › Sources): GitHub and GDELT, a free index of news from around the world

Schedule

• Co-Investor watch: every day, around 2 AM ET
• Synergistic fund watch: every day, around 3 AM ET
• People tracked: every day, around 4 AM ET
• Startup signals: every day, around 5 AM ET
• Scoring: every day, around 6 AM ET
• Alerts: every day, around 7 AM ET
• Trends: every day, around 9 AM ET
• Funds Raised, websites and pictures: every day, around 11 AM ET
• News Links: every day, around 12 PM ET
• IC Meeting brief: Mondays, around 12 AM ET
• Weekly upkeep: Sundays, around 2 AM ET
• Refresh Now: any time, once an hour for everyone

Phase II

Phase I is this prototype: built by Adrian alone, on free public sources. Phase II is the production version, built with Sidekick: team-only access, trusted ratings, real-time updates, email alerts, PitchBook and Crunchbase, and LinkedIn.