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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 YekSoon Lok. Headquartered in Singapore. Four U.S. provisional patents filed.
Founder Bio
YekSoon Lok is the Founder & CEO of askOdin. He spent two decades on both sides of the capital table — as an early engineer at SilkRoute, building digital-rights infrastructure at Reciprocal (acq'd Microsoft), and as an angel investor catching paradigm shifts early: 3PAR (acq'd HP), Twilio (IPO), Cloudflare (IPO), and Red Hat (acq'd IBM).
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 | IPOS §34 National Security Clearance (Issued 2026-03-26)
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.
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