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An OpenClaw-like AI assistant for investment firms.

Knows your firm.
Gets work done.

Build better relationships. Make better investments.

Shiny Unicorn learns from the knowledge across your existing tools and proactively works alongside your team.

Live in production for venture firms. Ships several times a day.

Shiny Unicorn's morning brief for Saydeah. A 9:00am founder call with RumpleMints, where ARR grew 18% quarter over quarter to $4.2M but burn rose 11%. Three people worth meeting at tomorrow's SF event. A healthcare company the firm passed on that has since grown from $2M to $7M ARR. Pied Piper approaching a Series B in the next 60 days.
Built inside Cherryrock Capital

Everyone at your firm gets a Shiny Unicorn.

It knows your firm and gets the work done.

2:00pm LP check-in with Meridian Partners

Committed $8M to Fund II. Last distribution went out in March.

Last conversation: Asked how the portfolio is exposed to AI infrastructure, on Jun 3rd 2026.

Worth raising: Two portfolio marks moved since their last update.

Generate Brief
Prepares Saydeah for an LP meeting

3 people worth meeting at tomorrow's SF event

Sarah Chen will be there and knows 2 founders in your pipeline. David Kim, who you worked with at Northstar, is speaking alongside the CEO of Acme.

Reach Out
Finds 3 people Adrianna should meet at an upcoming event

Thursday's investment meeting is ready

Four companies on the agenda. Diligence notes, founder threads, and open questions pulled for each.

Still open: Reference calls for Halden are unscheduled.

Review Agenda
Prepares the team for Thursday's investment meeting

Your healthcare conversation with Richard connects to prior diligence

Last week you discussed healthcare infrastructure. A company Cherryrock passed on has since grown from $2M to $7M ARR and signed two health systems.

Revisit Thesis
Brings a passed company back to Richard's attention after meaningful changes

3 commitments to LPs are still open

You promised Harbor a data room walkthrough on Aug 14th. Two others are past the date you gave.

Follow Up
Follows up on Stacy's outstanding LP commitments

Everything your firm knows. Always up to date.

Underneath the assistant, Shiny keeps your portfolio, LPs, relationships, and firm knowledge current from the work your team already does.

NR
Northwind Robotics
Portfolio · Fund II · Series A · Detroit, MI
ARR · Q2 board deck$4.2M
Net churn · Q2 board deck1.8%
Runway · Jun financials19 mo
Next boardSep 18
Overview

Industrial automation for mid-size manufacturers, based in Detroit. Fund II led the $12M Series A alongside Foundry North. Maya Torres sends monthly updates; the board meets quarterly.

People
Maya Torres · CEO Priya Shah · CFO Foundry North · co-investor
Recent updates
  • Updated ARR and net churn from Q2_Board_Deck.pdf
  • New contact from an email signature: Priya Shah, CFO. You accepted.
  • Flagged enterprise pipeline slippage for Thursday's brief
Documents

Q2_Board_Deck.pdf · Jun financials · synced from Drive

Nobody typed any of this in.

Ask however you already work.

Same knowledge, same answers, in every surface your team uses. Nobody has to become a power user of another system.

Claude
Brief me on Sarah before our LP meeting.
Sarah Lindqvist committed $4M to Fund II. Last conversation, she asked about AI exposure across the portfolio. Two marks moved since her last update, and you owe her the Q2 letter…
From Claude, over a secure connection
SShinyAll workspace data
What changed at Acme since the last board meeting?
They hired a CRO, Priya Shah flagged a pipeline gap in the June update, and burn ticked up 6%…
3 tool calls
In the app, next to the record
Town
Who do we know at Stripe?
Two warm paths. David Kim worked with their payments lead at Northstar, and Sarah Chen took a board seat alongside their CFO…
Your firm's context, wherever you ask

It learns what matters to your firm.

Shiny notices what changed, connects it to what you already know, and shows up with the work.

Something changes
Acme hires a new CRO
Shiny connects it to your firm
GTM was discussed at the last board meeting
Understands why it matters
Sarah Chen knows the new CRO
Gets to work
Context prepared for Thursday's portfolio meeting

It reads the tools you already run on.

Connect the tools where your firm already works. No new workflow required.

Gmail Google Calendar Google Drive Google Sheets Granola Harmonic Slack Zoom Notion Carta PitchBook MCP

Coming from Affinity? Your CSV export drops straight in. Harmonic syncs as a data vendor.

Your firm's memory. Your firm's alone.

Shiny doesn't share your data, sell it, or train on it.

Encrypted in transit and at rest
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Everywhere it goes, everywhere it lives.
No model training
Your data is never used to train AI models. Not by us, not by our model providers.
Nothing without approval
Shiny never changes the record or sends anything on its own. You approve every change.
Every action audit-logged
Every tool call, every edit, every answer. A complete trail of what touched the record.
AI on your own keys
AI features run on your own API keys, under your own agreements.
Full workspace export
Your data is an asset of the firm, not a hostage of the vendor. Take all of it, any time.

We welcome your security review. hello@shinyunicorn.ai

Your firm's memory compounds.

Shiny remembers why you passed, who made the introduction, what an LP cared about, and what happened next. The longer you work with Shiny, the more useful that history becomes.

And all of it belongs to your firm.

DAY 1MONTH 3MONTH 6
Your current tools keep working
Shiny Unicorn's memory of your firm
Everything else can tell you what happened. Shiny remembers what it meant.
THE DIFFERENCE, IN ONE MORNING
EVERY OTHER TOOL
A reminder says a portfolio update is overdue.
What happened. Nothing about what it means, or what to do next.
vs
SHINY UNICORN
Coactive's burn has run ahead of plan for two quarters, the founder's update never arrived, and the check-in is drafted. Want it sent?
Yes, send it Edit first

See it run on your firm's stack.

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Questions, answered.

Is this another CRM my team has to maintain?

No. Shiny keeps itself current from the work your firm already does: email, calendar, meeting notes, and documents. Partners get the context without anyone inheriting a data-entry job.

Do we have to run a migration project first?

No. Connect the tools you already use and Shiny starts working from the information your team already produces. Coming from Affinity, we bring your existing data over from an export.

Can we trust what it tells us?

Shiny answers from your firm's own record and shows where each fact came from, so anyone can check it. When something changes, the record changes with it.

Will it act without our sign-off?

No. Shiny prepares briefs, drafts, and follow-ups; nothing is sent to a founder, LP, or anyone else until you approve it.

We already use Claude. Why do we need Shiny?

Shiny is what makes Claude genuinely useful about your firm. Connect once and Claude answers with your firm's knowledge behind it, without anyone rebuilding context in a chat window.

Who controls what the team can see?

You do. Shiny respects the permissions of the information it learns from, so private emails and notes don't automatically become visible to the rest of the team.