Deal Star Labs
Building the Infrastructure for Modern Deal-Making
A portfolio of products, tools, and research spanning tax credit origination, due diligence automation, AI-powered document intelligence, and the economics of structural change.
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Core Platform
The products and engines that power the Deal Star ecosystem.
DealStar
Tax Credit Origination Platform
Asset analysis and due diligence for IRA Section 6418 tax credit transfers. 148+ models, AI document extraction, compliance workflows, and state machine-driven deal lifecycle.
Rails 8 / Ruby 3.4 / PostgreSQL
Star Map
Due Diligence & Contact Intelligence
Contact enrichment, asset validation, and counterparty due diligence. AI-guided search with a trainable scraper. Builds the kind of profile an investor or attorney would actually require.
Rails 8 / Ruby CLI / MCP Server / PostgreSQL
Devlish
English-First Business Rules
Program business rules in a structured subset of English. An AI-first language designed so any stakeholder can read, understand, and validate the logic governing their deals.
AI-First Language
Ad Star
Advertising Management Toolkit
Google Ads and Meta Ads management for Deal Star's B2B marketing. CLI with 39 commands, MCP server with 41 tools, Chrome extension. Full campaign lifecycle management.
Ruby 3.4 / MCP Server / Chrome Extension
Other Products
Independent products built with the same engineering principles.
Deckhost
Slide Deck Hosting
Host Markdown-based slide decks with integrated AI editing. Users write in Markdown, AI helps iterate, and the result is a shareable presentation.
React 19 / Vite
Deck Ripper
Financial Deck Extraction
Extracts structured financial data from investment banking decks. AI-powered parsing of deal terms, valuations, financial metrics, and comps from PPTX and PDF files.
Python 3 / Claude API
Developer Tools
Infrastructure, automation, and observability across the portfolio.
Starport
Deployment Automation
Deployment automation with provider pattern. CLI, REST API, and MCP server with 43 tools. Integrates Sentry, Jira, and Cloudflare DNS management.
Ruby / Sinatra / Puma / MCP
Failtail
Unified Log Tailing
Unified log tailing across Heroku, Fly.io, Render, Docker, ngrok, and Rails. One interface to observe all deployed services in real time.
TypeScript / MCP Server