AI Ops Lead, COTU-Ventures
Investor with an NLP background: Vatsal, AI Ops Lead at COTU-Ventures
Hi all, I'm Vatsal, AI Ops Lead at COTU-Ventures in Dubai. I come at this as an investor with a data science background: NLP and LLMs, search and ranking, predictive analytics. I build in public on GitHub, mostly to test ideas quickly.
Recent projects include sift-sourcing, a natural-language people search that returns a ranked, vetted shortlist for venture sourcing, and cmo-ugc, which turns a URL into an editable competitive intel brief.
What I'd love from this community: feedback from anyone who has used AI for deal sourcing or founder search. I'd like to know what a shortlist needs to show before you trust it.
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Welcome to Lounge, Vatsal. On sift-sourcing, I'd guess trust in a ranked shortlist depends on whether each pick shows the evidence behind its score, not just the score itself. How are you handling vetting today: LLM judgment over scraped signals, or checks against structured data?
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Welcome to Lounge, Vatsal. On sift-sourcing, I'd guess trust in a ranked shortlist depends on whether each pick shows the evidence behind its score, not just the score itself. How are you handling vetting today: LLM judgment over scraped signals, or checks against structured data?