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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 five scored pillars and three audit checks 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 YekSoon Lok. Headquartered in Singapore. Four U.S. provisional patents filed.
Founder Bio
YekSoon Lok is the Founder & CEO of askOdin. He spent 25 years on both sides of the capital table — as an early Internet engineer at SilkRoute (acq'd PCCW), then as an early APAC executive at Reciprocal (acq'd Microsoft) overseeing technology, working on its DRM clearing infrastructure and the Seybold award-winning Reciprocal Storefront built against it. He invests as an angel across 20+ early-stage AI companies between 2021 and 2025.
Across those bets, 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 →By the Numbers
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Key Facts
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- Singapore
- Founder
- YekSoon Lok
- Category
- AI Judgment Infrastructure
- Patents
- Four U.S. provisional patents filed
- Products
- The Crucible (free), Clarity (institutional)
Intellectual Property
askOdin's engine is protected by four filed U.S. provisional patents.
- RUNE Protocol™ — U.S. Prov. Patent No. 63/948,559 (judgment compiler)
- RAVEN Protocol™ — U.S. Prov. Patent No. 63/994,876 (cross-document triangulation)
- NORN Protocol™ — U.S. Prov. Patent No. 64/011,252 (temporal semantic drift detection)
- JUDGE Protocol™ — U.S. Prov. Patent No. 64/017,488 (runtime circuit breaker)
The architectural mechanics of RAVEN's triangulation engine are protected under U.S. Provisional Patent No. 63/994,876 and are not publicly disclosed.
Media Inquiries
For interviews, quotes, or additional materials, contact the founding team directly.
hello@askodin.app