If you’re diligence a new startup, you now need to assess their “AI nativeness” alongside team, product and market

Why? If they’re not at the forefront of using AI, it puts them at risk of not executing fast enough
It’s not a hard pass filter, but it is signal - here’s a few early tells:
1. Did they give you a .md file, alongside a deck, that you can feed to your LLM?
2. Did they build an interactive HTML deck or just send a PDF/docsend?
3. Do they talk about proprietary skills, data, evals or methods they’re using to build their product?
4. Do they ship significant product updates between meetings?
Not an exhaustive list, just some anecdotal signs that I’ve noticed