PIVOT
You've written a great VC memo about a startup and forgotten to include the founder — half of this is you coaching yourself, and the coaching is better than the company.
A regtech/analytics tool for investment distributors (e.g. under SEBI) that computes real-time overlap and concentration risk across an advisor's entire client book and auto-generates regulatory suitability reports, wedging in via a mid-tier distributor currently doing this in Excel.
The reasoning
Why it dies
Distributors who run their compliance on Excel run it on Excel because it's free and they've decided the headache is survivable — the whole market you're targeting is defined by its refusal to pay for exactly this. SEBI suitability reporting is a jurisdiction lottery: nail India and you've built a tool that dies the moment a rule changes or you cross a border, and there's no 'engine' underneath, just an ever-lengthening treadmill of regulatory diffing. You named the two real moats yourself — proprietary data and regulatory edge — and then said nothing about having either, which means right now this is a login screen with a compliance PDF stapled to it.
What would save it
The wedge is genuinely sharp — 'the one compliance headache they can name' is the right instinct. Go find three mid-tier SEBI distributors, get one to describe the specific report an inspector or client dinged them on, and build only that. Then prove you have a data/regulatory edge nobody can weekend-clone: exclusive feeds, a maintained SEBI rules engine, or integration nobody else has. If you can't articulate that edge in one sentence, you're selling a slightly nicer spreadsheet.