See the deal the founder didn't pitch.
Legal and commercial diligence of the whole data room in 72 hours. The software reads; the judgment and the signature are mine – a lawyer qualified in both the Czech Republic and England & Wales. Or it's free.
Founder never assigned copyright in the core product to the company.
IP_assignment_v2.pdf · cl. 4.2 · p. 7The 2024 SAFE converts at a 35% discount – the deck assumes 20%.
SAFE_seed.pdf · cl. 2.1 · p. 362% of revenue rests on one customer with 30 days' notice.
MSA_Client_A.pdf · cl. 11 · p. 14You read the deck and the numbers. The risk is buried in the documents.
Unassigned IP, a SAFE that reprices against you, an exhausted tax relief, a customer contract carrying half the revenue. None of it makes the pitch – and yet it decides what your investment is worth.
Traditional legal due diligence
A law firm, £15k and up, several weeks. It makes no sense for a cheque in the hundreds of thousands.
A quick deck ‘check’
You read the pitch and the model. Nobody opens amendment no. 4 to the key-customer contract.
An AI tool with no lawyer
A summary nobody will sign. For a decision about money that is material, not advice.
Software reads, a lawyer signs
Every line of the data room read and reconciled. A lawyer decides what matters and signs it. In three days, not three weeks.
For those who wire the money – and those who receive it.
Investors
Angels, syndicate leads, family offices and funds before signing a term sheet or wiring funds.
- A memo ready to forward to co-investors
- Questions for the founder and term-sheet conditions
- An independent view – I do not act for the other side
Founders and startups
Before a fundraise or an exit. Find the issues before the investor does.
- Vendor due diligence on your own data room
- A fix list that takes it to ‘investor-ready’
- Fewer surprises once price is being negotiated
Five steps, one link, 72 hours.
Send the link
The investor or founder forwards the data-room link. Nothing is copied around by hand.
Fill the gaps
If something is missing, the founder gets a short list and uploads the rest.
The software reads
The Freedia platform reads every document, extracts people, figures, deadlines and claims, and builds a knowledge graph from them.
The lawyer judges
I check every finding against the source document, add judgment and sign the clearance memo.
The memo is yours
Within 72 hours you hold a signed report ready to send to co-investors – or to fix the data room.
Eight dimensions, each on its own – and against each other.
The most interesting findings hide where two documents disagree: the deck says one thing, the bank statement another, the cap table a third.
Financials & unit economics
Burn, runway, margins – and whether it reconciles with the bank.
Cap table & dilution
Options, SAFEs, convertible notes – what conversion does to your stake.
Legal, IP & corporate
Contracts, IP assignment and buried liabilities.
Market & competition
Real demand, defensibility, claims a market check kills.
Team & founder history
The deck versus the public record.
Technology & architecture
What's built versus what's promised, and the debt beneath it.
Traction & cohort integrity
Real retention, or churn-and-replace in disguise.
Revenue & concentration
How much rests on one logo or one renewing contract.
Every finding lands on a specific sentence in a document.
No ‘general risk’. Each point shows the quoted text, the document, the clause number and the page – so you can verify it yourself in seconds, or send it straight to the other side.
The whole method is built that way: the memo is a layer of judgment on top of the verbatim wording.
"The Contractor shall retain all proprietary rights in the works created under this Agreement; the Client is granted a non-exclusive licence limited to the term of the Agreement."
The core product does not belong to the company you are investing in. Assignment before completion belongs in the term sheet, or you are buying a licence, not the technology.
The judgment belongs to the lawyer. The machine just reads.
Software does what a human cannot – read hundreds of documents and compare every figure with every other. It cannot carry responsibility. I do: I personally review and sign every report as an advokát registered with the Czech Bar Association and a solicitor of England & Wales.
JUDr. David Svoboda, LL.B., LL.M.
Lead reviewer on every report · dual-qualified Czech Republic / England & Wales · co-founder of the Freedia platform
A knowledge graph instead of linear reading
Freedia recognises people, companies, amounts, dates and claims in the documents and links them into a single graph. That lets it compare the whole data room at once and surface contradictions nobody spots reading document by document.
One document that holds up in front of your co-investors and the founder alike.
- A signed clearance memo ready to forward to co-investors or LPs
- Every finding traced to a specific document, clause and page – no ‘general risk’
- Sorted by severity: what blocks the deal, what is fixed in the documents, what you simply need to know
- Suggested questions for the founder and conditions for the term sheet / SHA
- For founders: a fix list that takes the data room to ‘investor-ready’
Examined in confidence.
EU hosted
Data never leaves the European Union.
Never used to train AI
Your documents are not used to train any model.
End-to-end encrypted
In transit and at rest.
Legal professional privilege
Your data is covered by a lawyer's duty of confidentiality.
Two guarantees, both in writing.
72 hours, or it's free.
The signed memo arrives within 72 hours of receiving the data room. Otherwise you don't pay.
A material finding, or it's free.
I surface at least one material issue you didn't already know about. Otherwise the review is free.
Both guarantees sit in the engagement letter, which I draft myself. They cover the quality of the work, never the outcome of the deal.
Have a deal on your desk? Your first review is free.
For a founding group of clients – investors and founders alike – the first full, lawyer-signed review is complimentary. See the value before you pay a firm £15k.
Further reviews are a flat fee, agreed on the intro call.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly do I need to send?
Just the data-room link (Google Drive, Dropbox, DocSend, Notion – anything). If there is no data room yet, send a folder of documents; I will help you organise it.
Is the memo a legal service?
Yes. Unlike an automated ‘AI analysis’, this is a legal service provided by a qualified lawyer within the scope of the engagement letter. The software is the tool; the lawyer carries the responsibility.
Which documents and languages can the platform handle?
PDF, Word, Excel, e-mails, decks – in English, Czech, German and other languages. Scanned documents are converted to text automatically.
Does it work for UK and Czech companies alike?
Yes. I am an advokát registered with the Czech Bar and a solicitor of England & Wales; the review covers English, Czech and cross-border structures (typically a Czech s.r.o. under an English or Delaware holding company).
How are the 72 hours counted?
From the moment I have access to the complete data room (or have confirmed it is sufficient), on working days.
What if you find nothing?
Then the review is free – that is the second guarantee. A finding you already knew about doesn't count.