Est. 2026 · Bellevue, WA
CRAIG ROAD
Intelligence you can defend.
“You bring the AI model. We bring the audit trail.”
Craig Road builds the harness that converts frontier AI model output into intelligence that holds up to LPs, trustees, counsel, and regulators. Customers bring whichever frontier AI model they prefer; Craig Road brings the audit trail, the confidence calibration, the multi-AI-model verification, and the atomic retraction. The same harness underwrites two product surfaces — AI-led diligence engagements for venture funds and the institutions that back them, and licensed AI infrastructure for enterprises whose AI decisions have to be defensible by construction. Epistemic sovereignty for the AI age — the firm owns the AI model layer, the audit chain, and the judgment.
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Diligence
Practice · Engagement-priced
Diligence for venture funds and the institutions that back them.
Engagements for venture funds running diligence on a target company, and for pension funds and other limited partner allocators running diligence on the managers they back. The principals bring multi-decade experience on both sides of that conversation — having allocated capital to venture from pension fund of funds, and having operated across deep technology, commercial fundamentals, governance, ESG, DEI, life-cycle assessment, and cross-border operating risk. Every engagement runs on the same infrastructure described below: factual claims are verified against source by multi-AI-model agreement before they enter the deliverable, retracted sources propagate through every downstream reference, and transcripts and source chains are deliverable in a form fiduciaries, trustees, counsel, and regulators can audit.
Confidence is scored, not assumed. Every finding carries a six-signal score; the system knows when it doesn’t know.
| No. |
Signal |
Weight |
Method |
| I |
Source verification |
30% |
Traceability to primary source documents |
| II |
Independent corroboration |
20% |
Multiple analytical pathways converge |
| III |
Cross-reference validation |
10% |
Consistency across documents in the data room |
| IV |
Logical consistency |
15% |
Conclusion follows from established facts |
| V |
Relationship integrity |
10% |
Consistent with known structural relationships |
| VI |
Uncertainty detection |
15%* |
Disagreement between pathways lowers confidence and flags for human review |
| Total |
100% |
|
*Inverse-weighted · Weights configurable per firm and per sector
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CCR
Infrastructure · Usage-priced · v1.0.0-alpha.1
Production-deployed AI infrastructure.
The infrastructure that makes Craig Road’s diligence defensible is the same system deployed today inside customer environments as a standalone product. Every AI model call from the firm passes through one connection point the firm owns. Calls are observed under firm policy and routed to whichever frontier AI model the firm chooses — commercial frontier AI models or open-source AI models running in-house. Every claim is verified by multiple AI models in agreement before it lands in the customer’s knowledge base; wrong-but-confident answers are blocked at the gate. Provider credentials never leave the infrastructure layer. Every action lands in a tamper-evident audit log scoped to the customer organization, queryable in one line.
Token spend on enterprise workloads drops by a measurable margin once traffic switches over. The capability gain is larger than the cost gain: workloads that exceed the upstream API ceiling — long codebases, document corpora at scale, sustained sessions — become tractable when they previously broke. The demonstration is five minutes on the customer’s own corpus.
Deployed today across three topologies, sized to the operator:
| No. |
Topology |
Footprint |
Audience |
| i |
Native · Apple Silicon |
Local |
Individual operators · runs on the laptop |
| ii |
Hosted · Cloud Run |
Per-use |
Small teams · thin-client deployment |
| iii |
Single-VM |
Compact |
Single-tenant · cost-predictable |
Released as v1.0.0-alpha.1 · Two production customers
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Engagement
Four shapes · Across both surfaces
How we engage.
Four shapes across the two surfaces. Services price per engagement; infrastructure prices on usage.
| No. |
Shape |
Pricing |
Audience |
| i |
Single-deal diligence |
Per deal |
Funds running diligence on one target · bundled, scoped to complexity |
| ii |
Annual partnership |
Retainer |
Firms at portfolio cadence · cross-deal pattern detection · compounding knowledge base |
| iii |
CCR license |
Usage |
Enterprises & consultancies · deployed in your environment · one of three topologies |
| iv |
Multi-tenant deployment |
Bespoke |
Platforms requiring custom scoring models & white-label reporting |