The Problem
As an investor at an early stage firm, I love discovering great founders and helping them build. But most of my day was spent on grunt work: triaging hundreds of cold emails, manually updating Affinity after every call, and drafting the same "thanks but not a fit" responses over and over.
I tried hiring an assistant. Too expensive for a solo GP. I tried using ChatGPT. Too manual—I had to copy-paste everything and write prompts for every single task.
"What if my assistant could just read my email, know my preferences, and handle the boring stuff automatically?"
The Solution
So I built Lotte. It's the AI assistant I wish I had from day one: proactive, context-aware, and designed specifically for venture work.
Lotte connects directly to your Gmail, calendar, and CRM. It triages incoming emails, drafts responses based on your voice and past replies, logs interactions automatically, and even generates first drafts of investment memos.
You chat with it via WhatsApp—no new app to learn. It messages you: "Got 23 new founder emails, 3 look promising. Want to see them?" You approve or reject. That's it.
Privacy-First
I know how sensitive dealflow is. That's why Lotte runs entirely on your machine. Your emails, contacts, and CRM data never leave your computer. API calls to Anthropic (Claude) are encrypted end-to-end. I never see your data, never store it, and never train models on it.
This isn't a SaaS platform extracting value from your data. It's a tool you own, running locally, under your control.