Founder Due Diligence: A Web Research Workflow That Survives Link Rot
Due diligence depends on evidence: what a competitor claimed, what pricing looked like, what a regulator published. The live web will change—often right when you need the old version.
What to archive early
- Competitor pricing, positioning, and changelog pages
- Investor updates or blog posts you cite in memos
- Regulatory or industry body guidance you interpret
- Customer review patterns (aggregate pages, not PII)
Minimum viable system
- Clip at first read if the page informs a decision.
- Folder by deal or workstream (
Acme / Market / Legal). - Search across clips when writing the memo.
Why PageStash
PageStash stores full page + screenshot and supports full-text search across clips—aligned with “save it once, find it forever,” our north star for knowledge workers.
One rule
If you would be embarrassed to lose the page tomorrow, archive it today.
