Building Globally Relevant AI & Deeptech Companies

Parslee: Why This Summit Matters

• AI-native vertical product with heavy workflow and decision-support surface area
• Needs early, high-signal customers who can co-develop the product
• Benefits from investors who understand AI-specific metrics, not just classic SaaS
• This summit concentrates exactly those companies and VCs

From Talk Themes to Parslee Strategy

• Defensibility will hinge on depth of customer understanding
• Patience in incubation can unlock faster exponential growth later
• Brand and narrative can matter as much as technical differentiation
• Parslee can position itself as a "situational awareness" layer for customers

Proposed Parslee Meetings

Two Buckets of Conversations

• Companies that could directly use Parslee
• VCs open to strategy and product discussions
• Each meeting should have a concrete learning objective
• Treat these as design-partner and narrative-calibration sessions

Meeting Design Principles

• Aim for specific workflows, not generic demos
• Bring one strong hypothesis per meeting about Parslee's value
• Leave with one sharpened success metric or buying signal
• Capture structured notes to refine Parslee messaging

Companies That Could Use Parslee

1. Blinka

• Commercial real estate deal and loan automation platform
• High-volume, high-stakes decisions on imperfect information
• Parslee can support structured decision workflows and approvals
• Backlink: vertical AI workspace with complex, recurring decisions

2. Fernstone

• Insurance policy automation for business customers
• Intense regulatory and risk-compliance context
• Parslee can help teams reason about edge cases and policy changes
• Backlink: AI-native underwriting and policy design workflows

3. Michael Block (Agent Smyth background)

• Deep experience in AI-native fintech and agentic workflows
• Useful mirror for Parslee's product thesis and GTM narrative
• Conversation focus: "What would make Parslee indispensable to a founder like you?"
• Backlink: vertical wrapper founders assessing tooling like Parslee

VCs Open to Parslee Conversations

Clint Korver – Ulu Ventures

• Quantitative, decision-science background
• Interest in structured decision frameworks and graduation rates
• Parslee fit: "decision quality" for founders and boards
• Objective: co-shape metrics that matter for AI-native workflows

Sherman Williams – AIN Ventures

• Sharp views on AI pilots, customer paralysis, and valuation dynamics
• Concerned with traction quality and realistic paths to scale
• Parslee fit: tool to separate real pull from noisy pilot signals
• Objective: stress-test Parslee's value in boardroom-level decisions

More VC Conversations

Mehreen Malik – MeiLin Capital

• Global growth and deeptech orientation
• Likely to value disciplined, globally relevant AI narratives
• Parslee fit: cross-market decision support for expansion and capital allocation

Ben Parr – TheoryForge

• Brand- and distribution-aware investor
• Strong pattern recognition around narrative and go-to-market
• Parslee fit: how to express "situational awareness" as a brand promise

Itxaso del Palacio – Notion VC

• Strong views on product-led growth and knowing the user deeply
• Co-led round-table on customer understanding and preferences
• Parslee fit: tooling for PLG companies to remember and act on customer preferences

Talk Theme: Success Looks Different

• Standard SaaS metrics can be a distraction for AI-native teams
• Founders must define their own, context-appropriate KPIs
• Investors need literacy in AI-specific success patterns
• Parslee can encode these custom metrics into decision workflows

Parslee: Candidate Success Metrics

• Time-to-high-confidence decision for complex workflows
• Reduction in re-opened decisions or disputed calls
• Adoption across cross-functional stakeholders in a company
• Number of "situations" where Parslee becomes the canonical record

Defensibility: Understanding the Customer

• Deep, structured customer understanding as the moat
• From ad hoc notes to systematized decision histories
• A Parslee instance can become an organization's memory for key calls
• Backlink: Collibra-style data governance, but for decisions and context

Meeting Prompts for Customer Understanding

• "Tell me about the last high-stakes decision your team made and how it went."
• "Where did you feel blind or under-informed in that process?"
• "Who needed to be convinced, and how did you capture their input?"
• "How would you know if a tool like Parslee was really working for you?"

Market Dynamics & Capital

• Dense competition for growth capital and attention
• Down rounds and consolidation expected for many AI companies
• Strategics watching research, incumbents AI-washing aggressively
• Parslee can shine by clarifying which opportunities to pursue or decline

Using Parslee on Parslee

• Run Parslee internally on fundraising, hiring, and product bets
• Use this deck and summit meetings as early Parslee case studies
• Show investors the actual decision traces, not just outcomes