Analytical depth on data you already have. If your reporting arrives as unstructured PDFs from companies you cannot compel onto a portal, their ingestion engine is doing work ours simply does not do. Allocators who need look-through across funds, secondaries and co-investments should buy Chronograph.
DeelSignal vs ChronographThey rebuild the data.
They rebuild the data.
We never lose it.
Chronograph built a machine-learning engine to reconstruct structured portfolio data out of founder Excel packs and PDF statements. It is genuinely ahead of anything else in the category. We attack the same problem one step earlier: the founder fills in a form.
Chronograph, by their own published numbers
$5.9TClient capital covered by the platform
258,000+Portfolio companies monitored
4–8 weeksTypical onboarding timeline
The part we will not spin
Where Chronograph wins.
Allocators who need look-through across funds, secondaries and co-investments should buy Chronograph.
When the founder submits revenue, burn, headcount and narrative directly, the extraction problem does not exist. That works when you have portal leverage over your portfolio — and it does not when you do not.
And here is how you still win
The look-through, built against the reporting pack you actually receive.
For the companies you cannot put on DSignal Founder, our services team builds the extraction against your real reporting pack — the PDFs those companies genuinely send, not a generic template — and configures the look-through structure you report on. Where it needs product work rather than configuration, it goes to the engineers who ship the platform with a stated date, and the fix lands for every fund including yours.
Scope an engagementOptional, never a precondition — scoped and quoted per engagement.
What it costs
Two products, neither priced in public.
Chronograph does not publish pricing. The platform is split into Chronograph PE for general partners and Chronograph LP for institutional allocators, licensed separately — so the question of what a fund actually pays depends on which of the two you need, and both run through sales.
A five-person fund, one year
ChronographNot published
Chronograph does not publish pricing; PE and LP are licensed separately on enterprise quote.
DeelSignal$7,500
DeelSignal Pro — under $50M AUM, billed annually per fund.
Onboarding is the other number worth asking about. Theirs is 4–8 weeks of data mapping before the first dashboard renders. Ours is the afternoon you sign up.
Feature by feature
Where the line actually falls.
| Capability | DeelSignal | Chronograph |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio data ingestion | Founders submit structured reports at source | ML extraction from Excel packs and PDF statements |
| Data validation & audit trail | Submission history per company | Rule-based validation, click-to-source on every metric |
| LP look-through analytics | DSignal Portfolio, documents, reports | Look-through to underlying assets across funds and co-investments |
| Excel round-tripping | Sheets Bridge — live Google Sheets sync | Bi-directional Excel plug-in |
| DSignal CRM & pipeline | Included | Not offered |
| Founder-facing portal | Founders log in and report directly | Not offered — data arrives by email |
| Time to onboard | Same day | 4–8 weeks |
Switching from Chronograph?
Most migration pages promise a weekend. Ours takes six weeks for a fund with real history — import by import, and nobody stops working. The people doing it build the product.
Questions
Before you take either call.
What does Chronograph cost next to DeelSignal?
Chronograph does not publish pricing. The platform is split into Chronograph PE for general partners and Chronograph LP for institutional allocators, licensed separately — so the question of what a fund actually pays depends on which of the two you need, and both run through sales. Chronograph does not publish pricing; PE and LP are licensed separately on enterprise quote. DeelSignal Pro is $7,500 a year for a fund in the $25M–$50M AUM band, billed annually per fund, and adding people does not change the number.
When is Chronograph the better buy?
Allocators who need look-through across funds, secondaries and co-investments should buy Chronograph. When the founder submits revenue, burn, headcount and narrative directly, the extraction problem does not exist. That works when you have portal leverage over your portfolio — and it does not when you do not.
Will you move us over, and do we have to pay for that?
For the companies you cannot put on DSignal Founder, our services team builds the extraction against your real reporting pack — the PDFs those companies genuinely send, not a generic template — and configures the look-through structure you report on. Where it needs product work rather than configuration, it goes to the engineers who ship the platform with a stated date, and the fix lands for every fund including yours. Optional, never a precondition — scoped and quoted per engagement. The switching guide lays out the six-week sequence.
Where do these figures come from?
Figures reflect Chronograph's publicly available product information as of September 2026 and are subject to change. Chronograph is a trademark of Chronograph LLC; references here are nominative fair use for comparison purposes only and do not imply endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship. Every source is linked below; verify current details on the vendor’s own site before relying on a specific number.
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