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An anonymous insider claims the compliance startup presented a forked no-code tool as its own. The allegation threatens funding ties and public trust.
The controversy surrounding the startup Delve, which specializes in compliance, this week received a new push: an anonymous informant, DeepDelver, leveled accusations about the use of an open tool without proper licensing acknowledgment.
According to the investigation, the Delve team allegedly presented a no-code tool named Pathways to a potential client who later became the informant. DeepDelver claims that Pathways resembled the open product Sim.ai for building agents called SimStudio, and questioned whether Pathways was based on SimStudio. According to the claimant, Delve said that he developed it independently.
Then DeepDelver allegedly provided evidence that the tool was a fork – a modified copy of SimStudio, altered enough to present as Delve’s own product. If this is confirmed, it could contravene the Apache license, which requires open attribution to the author.
“We knew they planned to use Sim for something, and later unsuccessfully tried to sell them a deal,” said DeepDelver. “I did not realize they would sell this as a standalone solution.”
– Emir Karabeg
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