Case studies
The framework, walked.
Case studies show the framework working in real situations. Two kinds, both useful for different reasons.
- External cases walk publicly-reported failures through the framework and ask: would the framework have caught this? Teaching material, citing public reporting.
- Internal cases are real audits of products in the Startvest portfolio. They show the framework operating as intended and, occasionally, what happens when reality finds a gap in the framework itself.
External — public reporting · 2026-04-25
Delve, walked through the framework
First public case study under v1.0. Walks the publicly-reported allegations against Delve, an AI compliance startup separated from Y Combinator in April 2026, through the five failure modes and the six-row vendor scorecard. Score: 0 / 6.
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Internal — portfolio audit · 2026-04-28
FieldLedger, the first portfolio audit
Second case study. The Integrity Framework applied to a Startvest product. 14 PASS / 5 PARTIAL or NEEDS UPDATE / 1 DEFERRED / 0 FAIL across 20 dimensions. The audit also surfaced two false negatives in the framework's own rule set, which were revised in base manifest v1.3.0 and v1.4.0.
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What comes next
Each subsequent portfolio audit becomes a case study. ClarityLift, IdeaLift, ADAComplianceDocs, HirePosture, MA, and PRAPI are queued in that rough order. We publish the audit log even when the result is uncomfortable — the framework is worthless if its operators don't score themselves against it.
External case suggestions welcome at integrity@startvest.ai. We work from public reporting only.