Why I Built Vouch Before I Raised a Fund

How Aslam Capital built verification-first research infrastructure, why generic AI tools failed us, and why trust is the actual moat in institutional finance.

I’m an emerging manager building Aslam Capital, a private equity vehicle focused on acquiring and aggregating tire repair and replacement businesses across the Midwest. The business is unglamorous by design. It is operationally intensive, margin-sensitive, and deeply local. The edge, if you build one, comes from process, not from having a better opinion…