Product Update: Broad Search

"Didn't we discuss compliance issues with one of our startups last month?"

The room goes quiet. Someone suggests checking Slack. Another person starts scrolling through emails from three months ago. Twenty minutes later, you're still hunting for that one crucial conversation that could inform your next decision.

This scenario ends now.

Broad Search takes your AcceleratorApp database from endless data scrolling into a searchable knowledge base where every note, message, and file attachment becomes instantly findable. It's like having Google for your entire accelerator ecosystem.

Two Powerful Search Engines

Broad Search Application scours everything tied to candidate records - application notes, evaluation comments, file attachments, and messages. Perfect for interview preparation, compliance audits, and understanding an applicant's complete journey through your process.

Broad Search Startup searches all data connected to your portfolio companies - mentor session notes, progress updates, team communications, and documents. Ideal for portfolio oversight, risk monitoring, and comprehensive startup analysis.

Both are Premium features that work across your entire historical database, not just recent entries.

Why Program Managers Love It

1. Instant insights replace endless searching. Type "climate tech" and immediately see every startup, note, and conversation mentioning it. Search "compliance" across your whole portfolio to identify patterns or concerns. Find every discussion about a specific applicant before their final interview.
2. Better collaboration happens when information is accessible. Team members can surface past conversations without depending on whoever "remembers where we talked about that." Knowledge becomes shared rather than siloed.
3. Compliance made simple through exportable search results. Legal teams can generate audit trails in minutes instead of days, pulling every relevant discussion or document tied to specific keywords or timeframes.

Real Results

During beta testing, one accelerator uses Broad Search to prepare for investor meetings: "We can instantly pull up everything related to our sustainability-focused startups when VCs ask about our climate tech pipeline."

A program manager shared: "During compliance reviews, I can search for any concerning language across all our startup communications. What used to take hours now takes seconds."

Risk mitigation becomes proactive rather than reactive. Instead of hoping you'll remember potential red flags, search for terms like "legal issues" or "team conflict" across your portfolio and address concerns early.

Getting Started

Broad Search is available now for Premium and Enterprise users. Look for the search icon in your dashboard and start reclaiming all that buried institutional knowledge.

The search functionality works exactly like you'd expect - type keywords, get results. But the impact is real-time, moving from "I think we talked about this somewhere" to "here's exactly what we said and when."

Your accelerator generates incredible insights every day through conversations, evaluations, and mentor sessions. Broad Search ensures none of that wisdom gets lost in the daily hustle of building great companies.

Stop hunting. Start finding.