Vendor Pitch Claim Cross-Examiner for Startup CTOs

An event-driven claim ledger for CTOs at 10-30 engineer inference-heavy startups. At three moments only — new vendor pitch, spike kickoff, renewal — the CTO pastes the vendor's pitch language (sales deck quotes, SLA text, marketing copy). AE's adversarial multi-model debate cross-examines hedges, scope narrowing, weasel qualifiers ('typical', 'representative', 'matches frontier on most tasks'), and SLA escape clauses, converting each fuzzy commitment into a structured, testable claim with a promotion/demotion/kill lifecycle. When a spike ends (1-3 weeks) or a production incident occurs (1-6 weeks), the CTO enters one resolution row per affected claim: held / partial / failed, plus a one-line note. No monthly chore, no telemetry export. The ledger surfaces which vendors systematically hedge claims that later fail, giving the CTO renewal leverage and a defensible record for the CFO. Numerical SLA arithmetic is explicitly out of scope — observability tools already do that.

Vendor hedging is a documented CTO wound; AE's adversarial-debate + lifecycle-ledger stack converts pitch weasel-words into a renewal-leverage artifact at three low-friction touchpoints, fitting a solo UK operator's £100–300K ARR path.

Still in evaluation (phase: ranked). No verdict yet.