Preflight — cyber diligence for venture capital
A 20-minute pre-investment red-flag scan on any target, term-sheet covenants auto-drafted from the findings, and a one-page LP-letter cyber section that gets easier every quarter. Design-partner cohort open now.
Preflightis cyber diligence built for the shape of a venture-capital deal — a 20-minute red-flag scan on any target, term-sheet covenants auto-drafted from the findings, and a one-page cyber section for the quarterly LP letter. The design- partner cohort is open now.
What’s in the release
- The 20-minute pre-term-sheet scan.Fire it on any target you’re evaluating. External OSINT only — dark-web credential exposure, DMARC posture, attack-surface hygiene, public breach history, and peer comparison against companies at the same stage in the same sector. Output arrives inside your partner meeting window, not after it.
- Term-sheet covenants, auto-drafted from the scan. Every red flag maps to a proposed covenant clause your counsel can drop into the term sheet or SPA. Reviewed on a quarterly refresh with a tier-1 M&A firm; soft / hard / closing- condition variants and location guidance built in. Findings on one side, the covenants that fix them on the other — that’s the whole product.
- The portfolio LP-letter section.Every scan you run flows into a portfolio view. Every quarter, a one-page cyber section is ready for the LP letter — per-portco peer- percentile movement, external EAL estimates, notable posture changes. Reportable to LPs, defensible in the next fund raise.
- Same substrate as QCD.Preflight is a Gold-family derivative — the scan engine, covenant library, and LP-letter template all sit on the same platform as QCD, our PE-side product that ships full five-pillar Cyber Cost of Deal in 72 hours per engagement. VC gets a different shape of the same trustworthy substrate.
Why it matters
Every existing cyber-diligence workflow was built for PE deal teams — $50K–$150K per deal, weeks of budget, dedicated operating partners. That shape doesn’t fit venture. Your partners write a term sheet in a week, your associate has a Google budget, and you govern from a board seat, not from inside the portco. Preflight is cyber diligence priced for that, timed for that, and shaped for that.
Design partners get free access through GA, direct input on the covenant library their firm will use in real deals, and a lifetime discount on their first subscription. Beta — public pricing lands at GA.
Related reading: Preflight for VCs — the segment-side deep dive, QCD — the PE-side product Preflight builds on.
Related reading
The PE Buyer's Playbook for Cyber Due Diligence — the LOI-to-IC workflow Preflight compresses.
Cyber Cost of Deal: A Worked Example — the CCOD framework Preflight surfaces on demand.