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Crux Labs

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Crux Labs builds focused software products, including Swarf Shop, Bead Board, SpoilStack, BlastBid, MulchDeck, RiserSheet, and PondSheet. observed

fresh · evidence today 12 sources no confidence data
38.2/100
Venture signal
scored above 21% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What is established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 In the ranked index Yes

    The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is listed in the ranked index. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Fit not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    Venture backing, as assessed: no institutional venture investor identified · Stage, as assessed: not established by any source

    Assessed 2026-11-12 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$6M
2026-10-29
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
4
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

Traction

Latest cited round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (19% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

10 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

5 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 5 not evaluated

Not evaluated ≠ false — the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. A forecast with no target date cannot be graded and is counted as insufficient temporal evidence. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
38/100
Founder self-assessment claimed
11/100
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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
4 observed
Total open roles
35 observed
Market & funding stage 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Latest round stage (as stated)
not provided
Latest round amount
$6M observed
Latest round announced
2026-10-29 observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-10-29 Round · $6M · Investors: Analog Ventures, Pareto Holdings · lead not recorded

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 38.2/100 for crux-labs, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.9576 0.1915
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.1113 0.0334

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$6M
announced 2026-10-29 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-10-29
Money moved on or after
2026-10-29
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-10-29 by its own source.

Raw observations 26 current records ▾

Showing the 26 current records. Full observation history — 20 superseded records →

AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Crux Labs builds and ships small, focused products.", "quote": "Crux Labs builds and ships small, focused products.", "topic": "Company philosophy", "section": 0, "confidence": observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 promoted 0.50
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed readiness 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
common_name Crux Labs observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
common_name Crux Labs observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.60
description Crux Labs builds focused software products, including Swarf Shop, Bead Board, SpoilStack, BlastBid, MulchDeck, RiserSheet, and PondSheet. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.70
domain cruxlabs.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.95
early_signal.assessment {"rule": "operational-early-signal-v2", "missing": ["a financing round is held — assessed on the funding-verified path (buyer_fit), not as an operational signal", "fewer than two operational signal fa observed assessment 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
early_signal.status insufficient observed assessment 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
funding.round.amount_usd 6000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-29 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/29/crux-labs-raises-over-6m-to-improve-enterprise-agents-with-human-judgment/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 13, "source_id": "01M7AFEA7AXPNB7WNVN1Z3YZZD", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.60
jobs.board_url https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crux observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 4 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 35 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 6000000 derived calc 2026-10-29 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 15.7956 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.90
platform.visibility published observed inclusion 2026-11-13 normalized 1.00
score.venture_signal 38.2 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.60
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "crux-labs: Crux Labs - We Build Software Products", "source_id": "01M7AFEA7AXPNB7WNVN1Z3YZZD", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:98396e132624a8d5632454f8c667135673d28a8d66 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.95
website_url https://cruxlabs.ai observed enrichment 2026-10-29 normalized 0.75
website_url https://cruxlabs.ai observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.95
website_url https://crux.ai/ observed identity 2026-11-12 normalized 0.85
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-29 normalized 0.80