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VERDICT: MAYBEBERG SCORE 62/100

Crypto Token Due Diligence Reports

An AI research service that auto-generates structured due diligence reports on crypto tokens by scraping white papers, Twitter, and on-chain data, sold to VCs and funds.

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01 THE IDEA

Crypto investment teams at funds and VCs spend significant time manually reading white papers, monitoring social sentiment, and evaluating token fundamentals before making investment decisions. A service that uses Firecrawl to pull white papers, Twitter/X discussions, and relevant forum content, then runs it through an LLM to produce a structured risk score and investment summary, can dramatically accelerate this process.

The target customer is a fund that might make a $500K+ bet on a token — paying $1,000–$5,000/month for a risk report that saves them from a bad investment is an easy ROI calculation. This can start as a productized consulting service (manual + AI) and progressively automate. The B2B sales cycle is longer but contract values justify it.

02 THE NUMBERS

EXPECTED ARR

$60K – $600K

INITIAL INVESTMENT

$2K + 80h

MONTHLY BURN

$500 + 25h

AUTOMATION

6/10

COMPETITORS

4 · GROWING →

SKILLS

crypto/DeFi domain knowledge, LLM prompt engineering, B2B sales, web scraping, report design

03 THE VERDICT

High contract values and real pain point, but crypto is a volatile market and domain expertise is a high bar. Best suited to someone already working in or adjacent to crypto investing. The AI automation angle is genuinely differentiated versus existing manual research shops, but trust-building with institutional clients takes time.

04 THE FIELD

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