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The Social Leverage Letter | Issue #201

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Archive Intel (Fund IV) launched AI Marketing Review, a tool that helps financial firms streamline SEC and FINRA marketing compliance by using AI to flag risks, suggest compliant language, and provide full audit trails. The solution improves collaboration between marketing and compliance teams, reducing review time while maintaining regulatory oversight.

Construct CRM (Fund IV) is the underlying software platform powering Richards CRM, which Richards Building Supply launched for its contractor network. Construct CRM provides the robust E-Commerce-as-a-Service infrastructure that enables features like project management, instant quoting, financing, payments, and online ordering. By licensing its technology to distributors like Richards, Construct CRM brings scalable e-commerce and contractor-focused tools to the building products industry across multiple trades.

Tyler Denk, Founder and CEO of Beehiiv (Fund IV) argues that Substack’s new requirement forcing all writers to use Apple’s in-app purchases undermines the creator economy by stripping writers of ownership over their subscriber relationships. By shifting billing control to Apple, Substack effectively locks creators into its platform, erodes data portability, and sets the stage for higher take rates—moves the author frames as predatory and harmful to writers’ long-term independence.

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