Entity page prototype — Cliffside Ventures
Side-by-side with the full harness provenance chain surfaced in the notebook
AI You Anonymous · 🕐 duration 💰 cost 📊 confidence
◀ CURRENT — shows content but hides harness telemetry
Company · Saved because: job target

# Cliffside Ventures

Cliffside Ventures is a multi-strategy investment firm founded by Dirk Xu in 2025, focusing on both private and public markets with a strong emphasis on crypto.

🕐 First seen Apr 16, 2026 1 report 64 sources 1 note Updated 2h ago
No cost · model · tokens · routing

## Current brief

Open this first.

### What it is

Cliffside Ventures is a multi-strategy investment firm founded by Dirk Xu in 2025...

"Inspect sources" exists but no confidence / excerpt

### Why they'll care

Top signals: Recent transition from operator roles to founding a firm...

Inspect sources ›

### Likely questions or objections

Concentrated capital base...

### What to do next

Verify the current LP composition...

Tool events, plan, adaptations hidden

## Working notes

Keep your live read and follow-up questions here.

Cliffside Ventures
Capture working notes...
Evidence pills · no confidence score

## Workspace rail

Secondary context lives here.

📎 linkedin.com · Dirk R. 📎 linkedin.com · Zhiling Xu 📎 cliffside.ventures +3

## Research timeline

Full revision history.

Rev 1 · investor brief 2h ago
Missing: plan · tool events · source events

## What the current UI does NOT show

All of this is persisted but invisible to the user:

- ❌ Routing decision (plannerModel / executionModel / reasoningEffort)
- ❌ Operator context snapshot (lens + style + tone applied at generation)
- ❌ The plan — what tools were called, in what order, parallel groups
- ❌ Per-tool telemetry (model, tokens in/out, duration, cost)
- ❌ Per-source confidence (0.0–1.0), excerpt, publishedAt, favicon
- ❌ Per-section status (pending/building/complete) + sourceRefIds linking claims to sources
- ❌ Adaptations (how many times the plan was re-planned on failure)
- ❌ Total duration / total cost / token budget consumed
- ❌ Refresh triggered by (user / nudge / system)
- ❌ Streamed milestones (firstStageAt / firstSourceAt / firstPartialAnswerAt)
- ❌ Related entities surfaced by the harness
- ❌ Evidence metadata.imageCandidates, thumbnail selection logic

▶ HYBRID + FULL PROVENANCE — every block carries its harness lineage
What changed from the previous mockup: every block now carries inline provenance (model · tokens · duration · cost · confidence) on hover/focus. Three new collapsible sections surface the full harness chain: Routing & operator context, Execution plan trace, and Sources with confidence.
Company · Saved because: job target

# Cliffside Ventures

Cliffside Ventures is a multi-strategy investment firm founded by Dirk Xu in 2025, focusing on both private and public markets with a strong emphasis on crypto.

🕐 First seen Apr 16, 2026 1 report · rev 1 64 sources 1 note 🤖 gemini-3.1-flash (advisor) · 2.7s · $0.008 Updated 2h ago
Since last visitNo new changes · 2h ago
🔖 Saved becausejob target
Recent edits: AIinvestor brief rev 1 · 2h ago YOworking notes · 14h ago
Routing & operator context — how this brief was generated advisor · high reasoning
routingMode advisor productReports.routing.routingMode
routingReason multi_entity comparison + founder lens → deep reasoning required routingReason
routingSource automatic routingSource
plannerModel gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview routing.plannerModel
executionModel gemini-3.1-flash-preview routing.executionModel
reasoningEffort high routing.reasoningEffort
operator.lens investor operatorContext.label
operator.hint Concise, citation-heavy, avoid corporate tone operatorContext.hint
Execution plan trace — what tools ran, in what order 5 steps · 2.7s total · $0.008 · 0 adaptations
1 classify_query intent=multi_entity · entities=[Cliffside Ventures, Dirk Xu] · lens=investor done · 0.12s · 180 tok · $0.0001
2 web_search parallel query="Cliffside Ventures Dirk Xu fund 2025" · maxResults=5 done · 1.24s · $0.002
3 founder_local_gather parallel entitySlug=cliffside-ventures · depth=shallow done · 0.31s · $0.0003
4 run_recon dependsOn=step 2, step 3 · sources=8 → filter=5 done · 0.82s · 2400 tok in · 480 tok out · $0.003
5 synthesize_packet sections=4 · sourceRefIds=[s1,s2,s3,s4,s5] done · 0.61s · 1800 tok in · 620 tok out · $0.003
Milestones: firstStageAt 120ms · firstSourceAt 1360ms · firstPartialAnswerAt 2480ms · totalDurationMs 2705ms
Sources with confidence — all 5 web sources graded confidence avg 0.79 · 2 corroborated · 0 unverified
s1 · linkedin.com Dirk R. — Care.com | LinkedIn (pub 2024-08)0.92
s2 · linkedin.com Zhiling (Dirk) Xu — Consensys | LinkedIn 0.88
s3 · cliffside.ventures Official site (self-reported)0.72
s4 · crunchbase.com Cliffside Ventures profile · $100M AUM claim 0.76
s5 · twitter.com@dirkxu launch announcement · Apr 2025 0.55
Notebook
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Prep brief gemini-3.1-flash step 5
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What it is
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@Cliffside Ventures is a multi-strategy investment firm founded by @Dirk Xu in 2025, focusing on both private and public markets with approximately $100M in AUM[s1][s4], primarily consisting of the founder's own capital supplemented by select LPs[s3]. conf 0.83 gemini-3.1-flash $0.001
↑ User thought · inserted between AI blocks
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↳ my note: worth asking Dirk about LP breakdown — how much is external vs his own capital? #question
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Why they'll care
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Recent transition from operator roles to founding a firm[s1]; institutional pedigree at @Binance and @Bain Capital[s2]. conf 0.90 gemini-3.1-flash
🔗 Dirk R. — Care.com | LinkedIn linkedin.com · Aug 2024 0.92
🔗 Zhiling (Dirk) Xu — Consensys | LinkedIn linkedin.com 0.88
🔗 @dirkxu launch announcement twitter.com · Apr 2025 0.55
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Likely questions or objections
↑ User edited · original preserved via previousBlockId
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Concentrated capital base. The firm relies heavily on the founder's personal capital, which may limit long-term scalability compared to institutional funds[s4]. conf 0.76 rev 2 (was AI)
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What to do next
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Verify the current LP composition and fund structure during the meeting
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Request a track record summary of private market investments
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Ask about geographic/regulatory exposure in Hong Kong SAR
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My working notes
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First call with @Dirk scheduled next Tuesday. Agenda: LP composition, crypto thesis depth, any overlap with @Paradigm or @Multicoin Capital.
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Background check: confirm Binance tenure dates, role, and scope
↑ Inline AI will inherit routing + operator context
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/ai summarize the risks|
/ai Generate write blocks from prompt
/search Web search pull fresh sources
/deepresearch Deep research multi-step investigation
@ Mention entity link to another page
Press Enter or click to add a block...
Linked from · 3 places
In Founder targets Q2 · "...worth revisiting Cliffside given their capital base concerns..."
In Weekly reset · Apr 12 · "...Dirk's new firm Cliffside came up in two unrelated convos..."
In @Dirk Xu · mentioned by name
Related entities (harness-suggested · from run_recon)
@Paradigm · peer crypto-native fund · cited in s4
@Multicoin Capital · peer · cited in s4
@Binance · founder's prior affiliation · cited in s1
@Bain Capital · founder's prior affiliation · cited in s2