Agentic engineering for venture capital
We build the AI systems funds run on
80x builds AI systems for venture-capital funds — agents that qualify every deal inside Attio and Affinity, migrations that don't lose history, and automations that keep your pipeline current on its own. A fund is made by a handful of deals; we make sure you never miss the one that returns it.
62 projects delivered · 68 funds and firms · 21,301,433 CRM records migrated, cleaned, and enriched
Where to start
01
You run a fund
Get every deal in your pipeline scored against your thesis, your CRM cleaned up, and the follow-through running itself, on Attio or Affinity.
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02
You want to learn how
Open documentation on how 80x builds agentic systems for funds, written to teach fund teams, not only engineers.
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You want to try something
A free skill auditor, a directory of the software funds run on, and one product you can buy today.
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Proof
Proof, by the numbers
Sixty-two projects for venture funds and the teams around them. Here is the scale, and then what changed for four of them.
62
projects delivered for venture funds and the teams around them
68
funds and firms 80x has worked with, from first-time managers to Union Square Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures
21,301,433
CRM records migrated, cleaned, and enriched across client engagements
100%
of the values the qualification agent writes carry a verbatim citation
What changed for four of them
2,086
deals scored against the fund's own thesis every day, so nothing good sits unread (a legal-tech company)
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4,892 → 2,358
a duplicate-choked CRM made trustworthy again, with zero good notes lost (a fund-of-funds)
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76
missing stage dates recovered, so the pipeline dashboard tells the truth again (a European PE platform)
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recurring LP-fundraising questions that now answer themselves every week (an Australian VC raising its first fund)
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Services
Run the deal-ops of a fund twice your size
Three ways to engage. Each takes work your team does by hand and gives it to an agent your team controls.
Agentic CRM automation
See and score every inbound
Agents qualify, enrich, and file every deal in your pipeline against your thesis inside Attio or Affinity, the day it lands. Every value carries a verbatim citation, and your team holds the kill switch.
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CRM migration and cleanup
A CRM you can trust again
Move and repair your data without losing history: dry-run migrations, deduplication at scale, and backfills with a full rollback trail. The source of truth is actually true.
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Automation retainers
It keeps working when you're not looking
Ongoing care for the pipeline behind your fund: scheduled jobs, hygiene enforcement, self-updating dashboards, and monitoring that catches a silent failure before you do.
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Jobs we get hired for
- See every inbound scored against your thesis, the day it lands
- Trust the CRM again after a migration dumped duplicates into it
- Get back the stage dates your dashboard depends on
- Run your LP raise like a pipeline, so no warm LP goes cold
- Find the automations that died without telling anyone
- Keep a partner dashboard that rebuilds itself every morning
Work
Recent work
a legal-tech company
Teaching a CRM to qualify its own deals
A qualification agent reads the 2,086-deal pipeline every day and scores each deal against the fund's thesis. Every value it writes carries a verbatim citation, so a partner can act on a field without re-checking where it came from. Full write-up in Writing.
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100% cited
Every value the agent writes carries a verbatim citation.
a fund-of-funds
Cleaning up after a botched CRM migration
4,892 duplicated notes reduced to 2,358 across four passes, with zero erroneous deletions and a full rollback trail.
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a European PE platform
Repairing the silent automations behind a dashboard
Two dead automations found and repaired, and 76 date fields backfilled from the CRM's own status history.
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an Australian VC, first fund
Running an LP raise like a deal pipeline
LP fundraising modeled as a first-class pipeline: 50-plus LPs tracked as their own object, 8 saved views each answering a weekly partner question, and no warm LP left to go cold.
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Case studies
The wall of proof
A cross-section of 80x's engagements, anonymised — 35 in all, spanning CRM migrations, LP and fundraising systems, analytics, data cleanup, and workflow automation. Client names and identifying figures are kept out; the work, the tools, and the approach are real.
62 projects delivered · 68 funds and firms · 21,301,433 CRM records migrated, cleaned, and enriched
A European private-equity family office: DealCloud-to-Attio migration + analytics dashboard
Private-equity family office (Europe)
A European private-equity family office moved from DealCloud to Attio; 80x migrated ~300 deals in a one-week $3k project and delivered a live analytics dashboard with 60+ metrics.
Read case studyA European venture firm: Affinity → Attio migration
Venture capital (Europe)
We migrated a European venture firm's 38,000 people and three working lists from Affinity to Attio for a €1,500 fixed fee, then set up GP attribution in a post-migration catch-up.
Read case studyA fintech-focused venture firm: meeting-notes pipeline, calendar time-tracking, and WhatsApp capture tooling
Fintech-focused venture capital firm
For a fintech-focused venture firm, 80x built a Google Calendar time-tracking and meeting-categorization system with Notion reporting on a ~$4k/month retainer, and delivered a WhatsApp capture tool in beta with ~5 VC users.
Read case studyA large enterprise venture firm: Affinity-to-Attio lift-and-shift migration
Enterprise venture capital firm
80x ran a large enterprise venture firm's Affinity-to-Attio migration, 106 lists in scope, phased from a first tranche of FX lists, as a lift-and-shift with manually rebuilt views.
Read case studyA Latin American venture firm: Affinity → Attio notes migration
Venture capital (Latin America)
We scoped and delivered a notes migration for a Latin American venture firm moving from Affinity to Attio, carrying past pass reasons and company context across its Fundraising, Deals, and Talent lists.
Read case studyA SaaS startup: Attio company-to-deals migration + one-click deal creation
SaaS (deal-sourcing platform)
We restructured a SaaS startup's Attio from company-level to deal-level, migrating 211 company records into the deals object and building a one-click deal-creation workflow in the same session.
Read case studyA US multi-fund venture firm: Affinity → Attio migration + workspace rebuild
Venture capital
We moved a US multi-fund venture firm off Affinity onto Attio, 40,000 company records and 33,000 people records, then rebuilt its priority views, owner assignment, and LP funnel reporting.
Read case studyA US venture capital firm: Airtable CRM ops: event-management app, deal-log audit, dedup, and applicant tracking
US venture capital firm
For a US venture capital firm, 80x built a custom event guest-list app on the firm's Airtable CRM, audited the deal log from 29 attributes down to 16, and scoped an applicant tracking system for analyst hiring.
Read case studyA venture capital firm: Affinity → Attio migration
Venture capital
We ran an hourly-billed Affinity → Attio migration for a venture capital firm, delivering it against a $5k project with roughly 10 hours of budget to spare.
Read case studyA venture firm with an angel syndicate and SPVs: Affinity-to-Attio migration + Zapier LP/syndicate onboarding automation
Venture capital firm with an angel syndicate and SPVs
80x migrated a venture firm's ~100,000-record Affinity CRM to Attio, 6,000 notes moved with zero errors, then rebuilt its syndicate/LP onboarding emails in Zapier.
Read case studyA climate / supply-chain SaaS startup: Attio CRM cleanup, GTM reporting dashboard, GTM agent & outbound automation
Climate / supply-chain SaaS (Scope 3 emissions software)
A Scope 3 emissions software startup engaged us to clean up its Attio CRM, build investor-ready sales reporting, and stand up outbound automation for incoming BDRs, starting pro-bono, then expanding into paid work.
Read case studyA climate and impact venture firm: Fundraising CRM setup + email-to-Attio deal-intake automation
Climate and impact venture capital
We set up a climate and impact venture firm's fundraising/LP workflow in Attio and built an email-to-Attio pitch-intake pipeline via DeckMatch, organising 1,300+ LP records and standing up a live intake automation.
Read case studyA climate-focused venture firm: Affinity-to-Attio white-glove migration + one-week intensive rollout
Climate-focused venture capital
80x scoped and designed a white-glove Affinity-to-Attio migration for a climate-focused venture firm covering ~110k records, including a custom commitment object and a pass-reason consolidation from 52 down to ~20.
Read case studyA corporate venture firm: Affinity-to-Attio migration (~55k records) ahead of a fixed access deadline
Corporate VC
80x moved a corporate venture firm off Affinity and onto Attio, transferring ~55,000 records across six seats before a fixed Affinity access deadline, then restructured the deal object and migrated a 1.6GB file package.
Read case studyA first-time seed fund with an alumni network: Attio build: LP pipeline, deal pipeline & alumni community database
Seed VC (first-time fund)
80x stood up Attio as the system of record for a first-time seed fund built around a professional alumni network, a 7-stage LP fundraising pipeline, a deal pipeline, and an alumni community database, off a paid technical audit and a weekend build.
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Proud to have worked with
Union Square Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Discord, Cash App, Fintech Collective, Seaya VC, and 62 more.
- Ace Ventures
- Albion VC
- Anorak VC
- Arc Investors
- Artemis Fund
- Auster Capital
- Backed VC
- Bain Capital Ventures
- Blue Cloud Ventures
- Bonfire Ventures
- Bread and Butter Ventures
- Breakers VC
- Burnt Island Ventures
- Carmen Ventures
- Cash App
- Congruent Ventures
- Connect Ventures
- Cox Cleantech Accelerator
- Crane VC
- Culina Health
- Discord
- Dynamo Ventures
- Evolem
- Fintech Collective
- Fiori VC
- Friedkin International
- GET Fund
- Graduate VC
- Handle Talent Agency
- Hardware Club
- In Motion Ventures
- Karman VC
- Kegshare
- Las Olas VC
- Long Journey Ventures
- Marathon Management Partners
- Markd VC
- Marvin VC
- Mass Mutual Ventures
- Maverick Capital
- Memelord
- Midas AI
- Monte Carlo Capital
- Neutreeno
- ONE VC
- Originx
- Outlander VC
- Outset Capital
- Palo Alto Staffing
- Play VC
- Portal
- Prudence VC
- Raylu
- Redpoint Ventures
- Regeneration Ventures
- RGB
- Seaya VC
- Singularity Capital
- Standup Ventures
- Super Sammy
- Tera VC
- The Council
- Torus Capital
- Ultratech Capital
- Union Square Ventures
- University of Michigan
- Wilden Design
- Wordsmith
Method
How we work
Controls are what let an agent run inside your CRM unattended. Four of them are in every build.
Spec first
Dry-run by default
Proof-gated autonomy
Decision logs
Every engagement is led by 80x's founder, Daniel Hull. About the studio.
Ecosystem
The rest of 80x
Open documentation
80x Docs
How 80x builds agentic systems for funds, published as a free reference and written to teach fund teams, not just engineers.
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Free tool
Sentry
Reviews Claude Agent Skills for security and effectiveness: a deterministic scanner plus an optional AI deep review.
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Product
Backchannel
Syncs the WhatsApp and LinkedIn conversations you choose to Attio or Affinity. $29/mo, or $9/mo billed yearly.
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Latest
Latest writing and work
- Case studies — anonymised 80x client workWork
- A European private-equity family office: DealCloud-to-Attio migration + analytics dashboardWork
- A European venture firm: Affinity → Attio migrationWork
- A fintech-focused venture firm: meeting-notes pipeline, calendar time-tracking, and WhatsApp capture toolingWork
- A large enterprise venture firm: Affinity-to-Attio lift-and-shift migrationWork
FAQ
Questions fund partners ask
Something not covered here? Book a call.
01What does it cost?
Pricing follows the engagement shape: sprints and projects are quoted against the written spec, and retainers are a monthly fee. Book a call to scope yours.
02Does 80x replace our team?
No. 80x builds systems your team owns: the spec, the code, the decision log, and the documentation stay with you. The goal is a fund that can run and extend its own automations, not a dependency on the studio.
03What does 80x build?
80x builds AI systems that run inside a venture fund's CRM: qualification and enrichment agents, migration and cleanup tooling, and the scheduled automations behind pipeline dashboards. The studio also publishes its methods as open documentation and ships one product of its own, Backchannel.
04What actually changes for my partners?
They stop doing CRM data entry. Inbound is scored against your thesis and filed before they open it, the values they read carry a citation to source, and the dashboards answer their weekly questions without anyone rebuilding a report. Partner time moves from maintaining the pipeline to acting on it.
05Do you work on fundraising too, or only deal flow?
Both. The same system runs your raise. 80x models LP fundraising as a first-class pipeline: every LP tracked as its own record, none left to go cold, and the weekly question of where the raise stands answered by a saved view instead of a scramble. The case study is an Australian VC raising its first fund.
06Can you find deals we are not already seeing?
No, and we will not pretend to. 80x works on the deals that reach your pipeline, making sure none is missed, mis-scored, or answered too late. Sourcing new deal flow is your network's job. Not fumbling what it brings you is ours.
07Which CRMs does 80x work with?
Attio and Affinity. The case studies on this site run on Attio, and the largest cleanup engagement repaired data after a botched Affinity-to-Attio migration.
08How do engagements run?
Three shapes: a short sprint to build or fix one system, a longer project for migrations and multi-part builds, and a monthly retainer that keeps automations running and monitored. Every engagement starts with a written spec you approve before anything is built.
09How is our data protected?
Backup first, dry run by default. Destructive operations take a full backup, plan their changes as a reviewable dry run, and execute with a rollback trail. In the largest cleanup to date, 1,486 notes were deleted in a single pass with zero errors, and 60 ambiguous groups were escalated to a human review queue instead of deleted.
10Is Backchannel part of an engagement?
No. Backchannel is a separate self-serve product that syncs the WhatsApp and LinkedIn conversations you choose to Attio or Affinity. It costs $29/mo, or $9/mo billed yearly, and you can buy it at 80x.ai/app without talking to anyone.
Want a pipeline where the deal that returns your fund never slips through, and a raise where no warm LP goes cold?
