On August 13, 2026, Woody Butler, product lead on Decile Hub, ran a live walkthrough of the agentic tooling the team had shipped over the preceding weeks, hosted by Kelly Schricker. Decile Hub is the agentic operating system for a VC firm, covering the CRM, newsletters, events, the closing back office, the LP portal and an accounting suite. This session focused on what the agent can now do across all of it.
Watch the full session here: Hub: The Agentic VC Stack
This is a recap of what he demonstrated. For the wider picture on where AI sits in fund operations, see AI for VC and Agentic VC: Leading the AI Revolution.
The short version
- The investor dashboard now opens on three questions: where am I, how much have I raised, and who do I talk to next.
- Dex, the agent, can read your whole account and take actions in it, including adding prospects and sending PACT emails.
- Hub now has an API and MCP support, so your own agent can drive it from outside the platform.
- Every file uploaded to Hub is vectorized, so you can ask the agent what's in a document and who viewed it.
- Decile Magic, an LP matching tool, is in early alpha and going out to cohort members for testing.
The agent across a fundraise
Woody started on the investor dashboard, which the team recently rebuilt around the question of what to do next rather than what happened.
The example was a stale prospect who hadn't been touched since July. The dashboard surfaced him, and Dex, which is what every agent in Hub is called, explained why: never contacted, idle for weeks, sitting in the outreach stage. Asked for advice, it suggested opening on thesis and recent portfolio signal, then drafted the email.
Two things about that draft are worth noting. It pulled his actual thesis, digital health in LA, rather than writing something generic. And when Woody said "make it more formal," it rewrote accordingly. Hub can also learn how you write, store that as a memory file, and inject it into context on every later draft.
The agent isn't limited to one prospect at a time. Woody asked it how the raise was going and who was closest to committing, and it read across both the investor pipeline and the closing pipeline to rank urgency. On the prioritization logic he was honest that it's a mix of signals: how recently the prospect was added, how much back and forth there's been, and, if you've connected Gmail or Outlook, a summary of your actual email history with them.
The conversational interface matters most on a phone. Navigating a full CRM on mobile is painful. Telling an agent "I just met John Scott at a conference, his email is X, add him to outreach" is not. Woody did exactly that live, then had it send the PACT email, and the agent paused to confirm before sending.
More on the pipeline itself in VC deal pipeline management. For where those LP names come from in the first place, see You Already Know Your First LPs.
Teams and permissions
A question came in from a manager with co-GPs. Hub supports multiple users with graded permissions, so co-GPs can be admins while venture partners, analysts or interns get a narrower view.
The feature Woody rates highest for teams is the assigned column. Email templates can be set to send from the assigned user on each prospect, which means one person can run a bulk send and every email still arrives from whoever actually owns that relationship.
Pipelines are customizable throughout. Stages, the actions inside each stage, the email templates, the automations, custom data points, kanban or table view, grouping and filters. The same applies to the deals pipeline.
API and MCP, and better newsletters
The newest release was an expansion of the Hub API and MCP support, and the first thing it unlocked is newsletters.
Hub newsletters can target everyone in your contacts, all admitted investors, investors in a specific fund, a whole pipeline, or individual stages. What managers kept asking for was control over how they look. Previously the formatting was simple.
Now you can write custom HTML, and the cleanest way to do it is through the API or MCP from your own agent. Woody demoed this live from Claude Code connected to Hub over MCP. He asked it to write a newsletter, give it a complex HTML design, and pull real companies from his deals pipeline to highlight. A couple of minutes later the finished newsletter was sitting in Hub, styled, with his actual portfolio in it. The agent can publish it too.
His caveat is worth repeating. Always send yourself a test first. AI is "decent, but only decent" at email HTML, and email clients render it differently from web pages. He also noted that heavy HTML in a regular person-to-person email can land you in the promotions tab, which is why that's a newsletter feature rather than a pipeline email feature for now.
Enrichment, and an early look at LP matching
Deals imported into Hub are enriched automatically, and attached files are parsed on the way in. Woody showed a company where uploading a deck had populated traction, founder details, team notes and cash runway without anyone typing them.
LP enrichment is harder, and that's where Decile Magic comes in. It's in early alpha. It searches the open internet for angels, other GPs and fund-of-funds whose focus matches your thesis and region, then qualifies what it finds. The demo account was an Asia-Pacific blockchain fund, and the tool returned matches with reasoning on both sides, including one it flagged as a poor fit.
That adversarial review is the part Woody emphasized. The tool is built to tell you when a suggestion is weak rather than presenting every name as a great lead. Where it can, it includes a LinkedIn profile so you can look for a warm intro rather than cold emailing. Cohort members should expect user test invitations.
Files, data rooms and who's actually looking
Every file uploaded to Hub is vectorized and parsed, which turns the data room into something you can interrogate.
Woody asked the agent to find a presentation in his data room, summarize it, and say who'd viewed it. You can ask whether a specific LP opened the materials you sent, or get a summary of a file a co-GP uploaded without opening it yourself.
The viewer experience got attention too. If you send a data room link from Hub, the recipient's view is attributed to them automatically with no sign-in. For links shared more openly, there's now one-click sign-in with Google or LinkedIn, which Woody noted cuts down on people typing nonsense into the email field to get past the gate. Permissions are configurable per folder, and a view can trigger an automation that moves someone to the next stage.
Background on the setup itself is in VC data room.
On the LP portal, GPs can view it as any of their LPs to see exactly what that person sees. One manager asked for folders in the LP documents section, which is currently a flat table by design to keep it simple. Woody committed to following up rather than giving a yes or no on stage, which is roughly how feedback works there.
What it costs
Decile Hub is free for anyone in a Decile Group program, and the programs themselves are free. Kelly noted that some of the heavier AI features may eventually carry a charge to cover compute.
If you want access without being in a program, the session pointed people at the Decile Group team directly.
Watch the full session
Hub: The Agentic VC Stack, recorded August 13, 2026 with Woody Butler and Kelly Schricker. More sessions on the VC Lab YouTube channel.
Related reading: venture capital AI tools and VC back office solutions. For how managers put these tools to work week by week, see How to Make the Most of VC Lab.
Launch your own fund with VC Lab
Tooling like this exists because VC Lab is Decile Group's research and development center, built for emerging VCs with emerging VCs. The program is free, takes no fees and no equity, and has helped launch 1,003 venture firms across more than 90 countries. Every feature Woody demoed came out of watching those managers work.
Apply to VC Lab at govclab.com. Managers raising funds two through four should look at the Emerging Institute.