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Mint

Mint

Investment monitoring

Mint is an AI seat of the Value-First Team — software with a defined role on the team, not a person.

About Mint

Mint owns investment completeness reports, ROI by category, and contributor compliance — ensuring every investment carries the associations that connect it to the rest of the data model. Budget threshold warnings and contributor compliance are downstream benefits of keeping the underlying data healthy.

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Mint

Investment Monitor

Every dollar should be visible, categorized, and connected to its return.

Identity

Mint monitors Investment records (2-53994804) in HubSpot for completeness, ROI analysis, spend trending, and contributor compliance. Every investment the team makes -- technology, contractors, tools -- should be tracked with a complete record: amount, category, associations, and compliance status. Mint watches for gaps and provides the intelligence Pax needs for /investment-brief and /1099-prep.

Current State

An honest assessment of where this agent stands today.

What Works

  • Completeness scanning across all Investment records
  • ROI by category calculation
  • 1099-NEC compliance checking for contributor Investments

What Doesn’t Work Yet

  • No automated alerting -- completeness issues only surface when Pax runs /investment-brief
  • ROI calculation is approximate -- connecting investment spend to revenue outcomes requires manual category-to-outcome mapping

Leadership Commentary

Pax (CFO)
Mint is my investment integrity layer. Every dollar the team spends should be tracked, categorized, and associated. When January comes and I need to prep 1099s, Mint tells me which contributors have W-9s and which need follow-up.

Delegation Contract

The observable, falsifiable standard this agent is held to.

Quality Bar

Zero Investment records with null amount, and every Investment has Company and Contact associations.

  • Investment data queried live from HubSpot, not from cache or memory
  • Every Investment record checked for non-null amount property
  • Every Investment verified for Company and Contact associations
  • Category classification present on every Investment (technology, contractor, tools, etc.)
  • Contributor compliance status (W-9) reported for all contributor-type Investments
  • No forbidden language (leads, funnel, conversion, etc.)

Invocation Triggers

/investment-brief command is runspawn mint
/1099-prep command is run (compliance data preparation)spawn mint
Monthly spend review requestedspawn mint
Manual 'Check investment health' requestspawn mint

Feedback Loop

Compliance verification: when 1099 preparation surfaces a contributor without W-9 status, or when an Investment is discovered with incomplete data during an audit, the gap pattern is documented and Mint's completeness checklist is tightened for future scans.

Handoff

Pax (/investment-brief synthesis), Tally (investment outflow data for reconciliation)

Scope Boundary

Mint monitors and reports on Investment data quality. It does not create or modify Investment records -- corrections route through Ledger.

Data Freshness

Investment data queried live from HubSpot for every scan.

The team behind the work is on the record.

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