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PortMem · Pre-Seed · July 2026

The System of Record
for AI Work Product

Regulated firms are shipping AI-generated analysis they cannot verify or evidence. PortMem is the independent layer that checks every claim, names every omission, resolves which document version governs — and signs the proof.

Andre Bacellar, Founder · Live on GCP · 4 published papers · 01 / 12

The Problem·02 / 12

AI now writes the work product. Nobody can vouch for it.

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KPMG citations checked out; report withdrawn

First

dedicated GenAI section, FINRA's 2026 Oversight Report

Compliance blocks deployment. The bottleneck: defensibility, not capability.

Four questions: Supported? What's left out? Which version controls? Can we prove we checked?

Why This Is Unsolved·03 / 12

Everyone builds the pen. Nobody built the auditor.

Generators — grade their own homework.

Checkers — blind to what's missing; an opinion, not evidence.

Archives — store, don't verify.

Governance — police the rules, not the work.

Independent verification with court-grade evidence. That is PortMem.

The Product·04 / 12

One review, four guarantees.

1Claim-level verdicts — supported / contradicted / uncertain / not found, with evidence quotes.

2Completeness — names each omitted material provision.

3Signed evidence — hash-chained, Ed25519-signed, verifiable offline.

4Which version governs — authority and supersession; the capability no vendor we examined publicly documents.

Shipping Today·05 / 12

Live, deployed, demoable in 10 minutes.

Upload the governing documents; versions and amendments handled.

Submit the AI-written report, from any tool.

Get the audit — per-claim verdicts, evidence quotes, omissions, human sign-off.

Export the proof — a signed evidence packet an examiner can verify offline.

Live on GCP production. Deployment tiers: cloud · single-tenant · air-gap.

Proof, With Its Qualifiers Attached·06 / 12

Zero false alarms is the product. We publish our caveats.

Benchmark Claude Haiku, no documents Same model + PortMem
FDA recall lookups · pharma · n=10029%99%
SCOTUS overruling pairs · legal · n=10048%99%
FASB ASC supersessions · finance · n=2095%100%

End-to-end QA accuracy, same model — the layer is the only variable, and PortMem returns the citation and controlling version; the baseline returns neither. Every number is artifact-backed at portmem.com/methodology, including the correction we published to our own earlier baselines — that discipline is the product.

Competition·07 / 12

The category just got priced. The combination is still open.

Claim verdicts Completeness Signed evidence Version governance
Norm Ai
$120M C @ $1.2B · Jul 2026 · “the verification layer”		binary flagchecklistsWORM storage—
Generators
Harvey · CoCounsel · Hebbia		self-citation———
Scorers
Vectara · Patronus · Check Grounding		score only———
Archives
Smarsh · Global Relay · Purview		——activity logs—
PortMem✓ shipped✓ shipped✓ shipped✓ shipped

Public vendor materials as of July 2026 · dated teardown in the data room

Why Now·08 / 12

The checklist is published. Enforcement is the next step.

Aug 2, 2026

EU AI Act Art. 50 duties + GPAI fines apply

FINRA 2026

first dedicated GenAI section — our feature list, as an exam expectation

$197M

into the category in 90 days: Norm $120M · Patronus $50M · Hadrius $27M

Generators shipped first. Regulators published the expectations. The evidence layer is the gap — one auditor covers every tool.

Business·09 / 12

Sell the audit, not the retrieval.

Buyer — the CCO / GC blocking AI rollouts; a risk budget, not a productivity budget.

Wedge — a paid 30-minute proof-of-value on the firm's own documents.

Land / expand — metered verification; our surface grows with their AI adoption.

Channels — direct (17-target named pipeline) + OEM into the vendors who own the buyer.

~3,300

FINRA member firms

~15,000

SEC-registered RIAs

Low $Bs

initial SAM, bottoms-up, knobs shown

Where We Are — Stated Plainly·10 / 12

Product ahead of revenue. Deliberately, and briefly.

4

published arXiv papers

11/11

security findings fixed same day

0/75

false contradictions, 3-domain run

17

named targets, warmth-ranked

Live on GCP — solo, bootstrapped.

Pilot search — no revenue yet; the round exists to fix exactly this.

90-day goals — 3 paid proof-of-values, 1 signed design partner, billing live.

Team·11 / 12

One founder, both halves. Two hires close the gap.

Andre Bacellar
4

published arXiv papers

20

years enterprise sales — Huawei, Cisco, Google

Founder — ARClogic · Columbia MBA · BSc EE.

Hire 1 · Q4 2026 — founding engineer: owns the evidence/ledger surface and deployments.

Hire 2 · Q1 2027 — compliance-native GTM: runs the pilot motion the founder opens.

The Ask·12 / 12

$2M pre-seed · 18 months · commercial proof.

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paid proof-of-values · month 3

$250K

ARR · month 12

$1M

ARR path visible · month 18

Use of funds — ~45% hires · ~25% founder + ops · ~15% security/compliance · ~15% infrastructure + pilots.

What de-risks this check — the product is live, the evidence is auditable; the remaining risk is commercial execution, which the funds buy directly.

Talk to us.

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