TheCipher's current build focuses on portfolio intervention decisions for private-equity operating and investment teams. The framework below is the deeper architecture. The same judgment logic extends across venture capital, family offices, and the rest of private capital as the platform grows.
Why this exists
You've been thinking in markets.
Faro thinks in decisions.
"PE/VC. Family offices. Hedge funds. Boards. Search."
Those are where the room is.
They are not what happens in the room.
Every consequential call your firm makes is one of five kinds of decision.
The label changes by industry.
The judgment underneath it doesn't.
Selection.
Which company. Which manager. Which executive. Which asset.
Intervention.
Replace the CEO. Reprice the position. Change strategy. Escalate the board issue.
Allocation.
How much capital. Which fund. Which risk.
Conviction-change.
What new evidence should change what we believed.
Exit.
Sell. Hold. Fire. Settle. Stop.
Faro doesn't just remember what your firm decided.
It knows what kind of decision this is, and what your firm has learned every other time it faced one like it, no matter what room it happened in.
Useful in 48 hours
Live in 48 hours.
Not six months.
Start with the history you already have. Upload a defined set of IC memos, board materials, deal notes, and post-mortems. Faro structures the first Decision Ledger and begins surfacing precedent from that corpus.
FAQ
Common questions.
What does TheCipher actually do?
◆ Faro turns your firm's existing deal memos, board notes, and portfolio reviews into compounding institutional intelligence. It extracts the judgment behind every decision, structures it against context, and resurfaces it when a new decision rhymes with an old one. No parallel data-entry burden: TheCipher integrates with the materials and reviews your team already uses.
What do I have to do differently day-to-day?
Very little. Your team keeps writing memos, taking board notes, and running portfolio reviews largely as they do today. Faro listens to what you already produce and captures the judgment within it, asking for light confirmation only where it sharpens the record.
How is this different from search or AI chat tools?
Search retrieves what was written. AI chat can reason over the information it is given. Neither can independently recreate the proprietary history of how your firm formed judgments, made decisions, and experienced outcomes. Faro builds a Decision Ledger from that history and surfaces it exactly when the next decision rhymes with an old one.
What about confidentiality?
Every firm's data is completely isolated in a single-tenant architecture. Nothing is aggregated, shared with other clients, or used to train models. SOC 2 compliance is in progress and full security documentation is available on request.
Bring us a decision your firm has seen before.
See what Faro finds when it structures your firm's own history.
We're working with a small number of firms to build the first Decision Ledger around one real decision.