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Company Boilerplate
askOdin is AI Judgment Infrastructure for private capital. The patent-pending RUNE Protocol audits an investment thesis the way a credit rating audits debt — against 40+ dimensions of business physics, with a reconstructible audit trail attached to every finding.
Two products run on the same engine. The Crucible is free for founders who would rather find the kill shot themselves than have a partner find it for them. Clarity is the institutional platform for VCs and accelerators — pipeline triage, cross-document forensic audit, and IC-ready memos with a Defensible Audit Log.
Founded in 2025 by Lok Yek Soon. Headquartered in Singapore. Core technology protected by U.S. Provisional Patent Nos. 63/948,559, 63/994,876, 64/011,252, and 64/017,488.
Founder Bio
Lok Yek Soon is the Founder & CEO of askOdin. He spent 25 years on both sides of the capital table — as an early engineer at SilkRoute (acq'd PCCW), building DRM infrastructure at Reciprocal (acq'd Microsoft), and as an angel investor catching paradigm shifts early: Twilio (IPO), Cloudflare (IPO), 3PAR (acq'd HP), and RightNow (acq'd Oracle).
As a Partner at Awesome Ventures, he developed the conviction that the venture capital industry's reliance on intuitive pattern matching was structurally broken — and that judgment could be systematized without sacrificing conviction. askOdin is the infrastructure he built to prove it.
Story Angles
The Theranos Test: Why AI Caught the Fraud ChatGPT Missed
We ran the reconstructed Theranos Series B pitch deck through ChatGPT and askOdin's RUNE Protocol. ChatGPT gave it a "Pass." RUNE flagged it as a "Black-Box Science Project" mirroring the Bre-X gold fraud. The question: can AI catch what humans couldn't?
Read the analysis →The Physics of Failure: What 134 Pitch Deck Audits Reveal
We audited 134 seed-stage pitch decks. 68% failed a basic physics test. The median Clarity Score was 38/100. Five structural failure patterns — from negative contribution margins to phantom TAM — explain why most venture capital returns zero.
Read the data →The Rise of "Judgment Infrastructure" — A New Category in FinTech
As the cost of AI-generated answers approaches zero, the value of validating them becomes infinite. askOdin is building the infrastructure layer that sits between AI automation and human conviction — codifying what Moody's did for credit into a system for private capital.
Read the thesis →Brand Assets
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Key Facts
- Founded: 2025
- HQ: Singapore
- Founder: Lok Yek Soon
- Category: AI Judgment Infrastructure
- Patents: U.S. Provisional Nos. 63/948,559, 63/994,876 & 64/017,488
- Products: The Crucible (free), Clarity (enterprise)
Media Inquiries
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