Partner-grade skepticism for every analyst
Redline learns how a senior partner challenges management's numbers, then stops junior analysts before an unverified one reaches the model.
Capture the partner once. Every analyst after that gets the same thirty-second catch.
Acme ARR01:35
You changed Acme from $190,000 to $110,000. Why not add both contracts?
Built with
- ElevenAgents
- Gemini vision
- Microsoft Presidio
- Supabase
The problem
A partner can spot a broken LBO assumption in thirty seconds, but never has thirty minutes to explain why.
So juniors learn the firm's rules by breaking them, one redline at a time.
30 sec
To spot it
Sees the $190,000 ARR is two contracts, where one replaces the other.
30 min
To explain it
The amendment, the invoices, the capex history. Time a partner rarely has mid-deal.
1 redline
At a time
How the rules reach juniors today: after the mistake is already in the model.
What it catches
Fine in the model, wrong in the documents
Every number on the left looks reasonable in a spreadsheet. Every one is contradicted by a document already sitting in the data room.
2025 Software Agreement · §1.2
This Agreement supersedes and replaces the Master Services Agreement dated 9 February 2023.
General ledger · Relocation and facility moves
2022 $1.4M · 2023 $1.9M · 2024 $1.6M
Capex schedule · 2021–2024
Maintenance capex averaged 4.0% of revenue.
Redline: Wait. Sabine would flag this ARR total and the relocation add-back. Does the new agreement add to the original, or replace it?
An $80k MSA plus the $110k agreement that replaces it.
Source · 2025 Agreement §1.2
Relocation booked in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Not one-time.
Source · General ledger, 2022–2024
At historical capex, 26.8% becomes 21.5%.
Source · Capex schedule, 2021–2024
Proof it teaches judgment
It catches the case the partner never showed
A junior who memorizes “amendments replace” would get Customer 3 wrong. The tutor teaches the reading, not the answer.
01 · Partner session
Crestline: the agreement replaces the MSA
ARR set to $110,000, not $190,000.
02 · Verified rule
Read the language before summing
03 · New case, never shown
Customer 3 add-on
$120k order form plus a $45k add-on that is “in addition to” it.
04 · Tutor
Add them: $165,000
Blocked until the junior reads the add-on, not just the rule.
Why now
The partner's thirty seconds can finally be captured
How juniors learn changed, and so did what software can see and hear.
Learning by osmosis stopped
Hybrid deal teams mean juniors rarely sit beside a partner during a QoE scrub. The “wait, check that” moment doesn't reach them.
Every class starts from zero
Analyst programs typically run about two years, so firms re-teach the same lessons to each new class, usually after the mistake.
AI speeds up typing, not doubt
Tools now spread a data room in minutes, which moves unchecked management numbers into the model faster.
Voice and vision went real-time
An agent can now follow a screen, wait for a natural pause and ask one question. Capturing a partner mid-task is finally practical.
Why not just…
Training that happens inside the work
…a training deck?
Taught once, months early
Covers the rule before the deal. Nothing checks the model when it matters.
…a general AI copilot?
Knows finance, not your firm
It has no idea how your partners scrub, and no partner signs off on what it says.
Your partner's rules, at the save button
Learned from your own partners, verified by them, and applied before an input is committed.
Trust
The partner decides what's kept
Off the record at any time
Say “off the record” or press a button. Capture pauses and that span is deleted. Only the time span is kept.
Redacted before storage
Transcripts are redacted before they are saved, never after.
Screen frames stay local
Shared-screen frames are not uploaded. The Deal Desk keeps sampled frames only after the partner opts in.
Only verified rules are taught
Anything the partner hasn't confirmed in the debrief never reaches the tutor.
Every deletion leaves a receipt
Off-record windows and review decisions are written to an audit log, so you can show what was removed.
Fictional deals until it's ready
Redline runs on synthetic deals only until the privacy readiness check passes.
Who it's for
Teams where one missed clause moves the price
PE deal teams
Ramp each analyst class on the firm's own rules within a deal cycle.
QoE and diligence advisers
Keep partner judgment consistent across every engagement team.
Talent and onboarding leads
Training that checks real work, not quiz answers.
Does the partner have to change how they work?
No. They do a normal scrub. Redline asks one short question at natural pauses, a handful of times per session.
Where does our deal data go?
Transcripts are redacted before storage, off-the-record spans are deleted, and the demo runs on fictional deals only.
What if the tutor gets a rule wrong?
It only teaches rules the partner verified in the debrief, and each rule links back to the partner's own words.
Does it work with our Excel models?
Today it runs in a sandbox deal desk. Working inside existing templates is on the roadmap.
Give every analyst the partner's thirty seconds.