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DeelSignal vs Chronograph

They rebuild the data.

We never lose it.

Chronograph built a machine-learning engine to reconstruct structured portfolio data out of founder Excel packs and PDF statements. It is genuinely ahead of anything else in the category. We attack the same problem one step earlier: the founder fills in a form.

$5.9T
Client capital covered by the platform
258,000+
Portfolio companies monitored
4–8 weeks
Typical onboarding timeline
What it costs

Two products, neither priced in public.

Chronograph does not publish pricing. The platform is split into Chronograph PE for general partners and Chronograph LP for institutional allocators, licensed separately — so the question of what a fund actually pays depends on which of the two you need, and both run through sales.

A five-person fund, one year
Not published
Chronograph does not publish pricing; PE and LP are licensed separately on enterprise quote.
$7,500
DeelSignal Pro — under $50M AUM, billed annually per fund.
Onboarding is the other number worth asking about. Theirs is 4–8 weeks of data mapping before the first dashboard renders. Ours is the afternoon you sign up.
Feature by feature

Where the line actually falls.

CapabilityDeelSignalChronograph
Portfolio data ingestionFounders submit structured reports at sourceML extraction from Excel packs and PDF statements
Data validation & audit trailSubmission history per companyRule-based validation, click-to-source on every metric
LP look-through analyticsDSignal Portfolio, documents, reportsLook-through to underlying assets across funds and co-investments
Excel round-trippingSheets Bridge — live Google Sheets syncBi-directional Excel plug-in
DSignal CRM & pipelineIncludedNot offered
Founder-facing portalFounders log in and report directlyNot offered — data arrives by email
Time to onboardSame day4–8 weeks
The part we will not spin

Where Chronograph wins.

Analytical depth on data you already have. If your reporting arrives as unstructured PDFs from companies you cannot compel onto a portal, their ingestion engine is doing work ours simply does not do. Allocators who need look-through across funds, secondaries and co-investments should buy Chronograph.

And here is how you still win

The look-through, built against the reporting pack you actually receive.

For the companies you cannot put on DSignal Founder, our services team builds the extraction against your real reporting pack — the PDFs those companies genuinely send, not a generic template — and configures the look-through structure you report on. Where it needs product work rather than configuration, it goes to the engineers who ship the platform with a stated date, and the fix lands for every fund including yours.

Scope an engagement Optional, never a precondition — scoped and quoted per engagement.
The honest verdict

When the founder submits revenue, burn, headcount and narrative directly, the extraction problem does not exist. That works when you have portal leverage over your portfolio — and it does not when you do not.

Sources

Figures reflect Chronograph's publicly available product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change. Chronograph is a trademark of Chronograph LLC; references here are nominative fair use for comparison purposes only and do not imply endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship.

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