Think, Reason, Learn

New · The first pre-trained model built with Think, Reason, Learn

FounderBrain

See how you came across in a pitch or investor call, compared with 773 public founder interviews, and get coached on what to try next. It is free, it works inside Claude, and it does not store your transcript.

Illustrative example · made-up founder

Leo Martin

The Candid Advocate

Enthusiasm

More enthusiastic than 94% of founders

MeasuredEnthusiastic

Openness

About as personal as most founders

PersonalReserved

Certainty

Firmer claims than 91% of founders

QualifiedFirm

Explains with

More analytical than 74% of founders

DataStories

Talks most like Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, 91% match

FounderBrain compares you with public interviews. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone it names.

Built with Think, Reason, Learn

Think, Reason, Learn is an open-source Python library for building prediction models that show their reasoning. It keeps the shape of decision trees, forests and rule sets and lets each step ask a language model to reason, so every prediction comes with the rules behind it. It comes from Vela Research, the research arm of Vela Partners, working with the University of Oxford.

pip install think-reason-learn

Python 3.13 or newer, MIT licence. View on GitHub

The toolbox

  • GPTree, decision trees whose questions a language model writes
  • Random Rule Forest, many yes or no questions combined into one transparent model
  • Policy Induction, short policies learned from examples that a person can check
Read the docs

Models

Trained models you can use as they are. FounderBrain is the first, built on 773 public founder interviews, and more are on the way.

About FounderBrain

Datasets

The data the models learn from. The transcript sets behind FounderBrain are shared on request, and VCBench is Vela's benchmark for venture decisions.

Research

  • FounderBrain's method

    NeurIPS 2026, TAE (Trust-AI-Eval): Can We Trust AI Evaluation? workshop. The paper is coming soon.

  • Papers behind the toolbox

    Random Rule Forest, Policy Induction and the other methods, with links, are on the research page.

  • VCBench

    The first benchmark for venture capital decisions, at vcbench.com.

Think, Reason, Learn is open source under the MIT licence. FounderBrain is made with it by Vela Research, the research arm of Vela Partners.

FounderBrain

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