One source, every surface
Every founder maintains the same data three times. Once in the deck for investors. Once in the cap table for the accountant. Once in the contract for the lawyer. The numbers drift. The story drifts. The slides go stale inside a week.
Lode flips that. There is one brain per vessel — your company's identity, narrative, product, market, business, finance, people, and brand facts in one structured store. Every document — SAFE, investor update, employment contract, onboarding packet, cap table, pitch deck — renders from the brain at request time.
Change the valuation cap once. Every future SAFE picks it up. Every investor update picks it up. The deck slide picks it up. The portal where your investor lives picks it up.
Provenance is load-bearing
Every brain field carries provenance: who said it, when, how confident. AI-suggested values can never enter legal output. Verified founder input flows freely. The matrix is the access control: investors see Slide, founders see Slide+Live+Ops, accountants see CH10 only.
The deck is the interface. The brain is the data house. The graph is user management. The matrix is the rulebook.