Give investors a room, keep a decision log that outlasts your memory
Investor updates and internal memory tend to compete for the same hour: you either write the deck or you write down why you actually made the call last Tuesday. Hark keeps the second thing as a byproduct of using the app, and turns it into the first thing when you need to send an update.
An investor room without a separate tool
Publishing a project page unlisted gives you a shareable link that isn't listed anywhere public — not in Open Studio, not indexed, just a link you send to the people you choose. An investor opens it and sees your thesis, Current state, traction, and journal, without you assembling a deck from scratch each time something changes.
If you'd rather go fully public later — for a launch, or to build credibility before a raise — the same project page can move to public and get listed in Open Studio at
. Nothing about the unlisted link changes until you choose to flip it.
The decision log is the actual moat
Founders lose more institutional knowledge to turnover and time than to any competitor. The journal's decision entries capture why you chose a pricing model, why you cut a feature, why you picked one market over another — with a date and, if an agent made the call during a build session, which one. Six months later, that's the difference between re-litigating an old argument and pointing at the record.
- Decisions sit alongside ships, sessions, and milestones in one chronological journal, not scattered across Slack threads.
- A new co-founder or hire reads the project page and journal instead of getting a verbal history lesson.
- Investors doing diligence can see reasoning, not just outcomes.
Traction next to the build, not in a separate slide
Traction metrics — signups, revenue, users, whatever numbers actually matter for the project — live on the same project page as the Current state. That keeps 'what we built' and 'is it working' on one page instead of forcing you to reconcile a product doc with a metrics spreadsheet before every update.
Sending the update itself
The progress-update copy tool has an investor/client update preset that drafts from your Current state and recent journal entries, in plain text or Markdown. It's a first draft built from what's already true in the project page, not a template you fill in from memory the night before a board meeting.
If your team also builds with AI agents, connecting them keeps this current automatically — see
for how the same project page stays in sync with Claude Code, Cursor, and the rest.
Common questions
- How do I share progress with an investor without making it public?
- Publish the project page as unlisted. It gets a shareable link that isn't listed in Open Studio or anywhere public, so only people you send it to can see your thesis, Current state, and traction.
- What's actually in the project page an investor would see?
- The Business tab (thesis, problem, audience, model, competition, risks), the Current state (phase, summary, in progress, next up, blockers, open questions), traction metrics, and the journal of ships, decisions, and milestones.
- Why keep a decision log instead of just remembering why we made a call?
- Because you won't remember, and neither will a co-founder or an employee who joins later. The journal records decisions as their own entry type, separate from ships and sessions, so 'why we pivoted the pricing model' is something anyone on the team — or an investor doing diligence — can look up.
- How do we track traction without building a separate metrics dashboard?
- Traction metrics live on the project page itself — signups, revenue, users, whatever numbers matter for the project — next to the Current state, so the same page that shows what you're building also shows whether it's working.
- Is there a template for investor updates specifically?
- Yes, the investor/client update preset in the progress-update copy tool drafts an update from your Current state and journal, formatted for that audience, in plain text or Markdown for you to send as-is or edit.
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