Hiive Private-Market Verified Search & Diligence

Purpose

Given a target (a private/pre-IPO company name, a specific Hiive-affiliated SPV/fund, or a free-text "exposure to X" brief), produce a read-only, compliance-first diligence package: enumerate every credible candidate exposure path available on or through hiive.com, cross-verify each against official primary regulators (FINRA BrokerCheck, SEC EDGAR Form D, SEC IAPD/Form ADV, SIPC, state securities regulators), capture entity / docs / fee / custody facts with URLs and access dates, score on a fixed 100-point rubric, assign a 3-tier rating (or Avoid), and emit a ranked candidate table plus a before-wiring checklist. Read-only. Never contacts, advises, signs up, submits forms, places bids, lists shares, wires funds, accepts any document at face value, or bypasses access controls.

When to Use

• Investor / family-office / RIA wants a verified shortlist of ways to get secondary exposure to a specific pre-IPO name (e.g. "Anthropic", "SpaceX", "xAI") via Hiive — direct purchase through Hiive Markets vs. one of the Hiive {Company} series SPVs vs. neither.
• Compliance / counsel pre-screen of a counterparty before the user signs an NDA, master subscription, or transfers funds.
• An LP or fiduciary needs a regulator-anchored snapshot of Hiive Markets Limited itself (CRD #316580, SEC #8-70806) — registration status, disclosures, principals, jurisdictions, custody/escrow disclosures, related funds — refreshed with today's date.
• Triage of an inbound "Hiive opportunity" pitch: confirm the offering and the entity offering it are the ones actually registered, and that all required disclosure documents are accounted for or explicitly flagged missing.

This skill never replaces legal or tax counsel. Its output is evidence + scoring to prepare a counsel review, not substitute for one.

Workflow

The optimal path is hybrid: pull all available public Hiive surfaces over HTTP (no login required), in parallel cross-reference primary regulators (FINRA BrokerCheck, SEC EDGAR, IAPD). The app.hiive.com order book / bids / sub-docs / LPA are gated behind accredited-investor onboarding — do not attempt to bypass them; flag them as docs_missing and let counsel pull them through a properly-onboarded account. The marketing site at www.hiive.com is fully crawlable without auth and provides everything you need for tier-1 verification.

1. Parse the request → derive the candidate universe

Map the user's [TARGET] to one of three shapes and assemble a candidate list. Always include "Hiive Markets Limited (direct)" as a candidate when the target is a company name that has a /securities/{slug}-stock page; SPVs are additional candidates only.

Constraint: never call any candidate "safe", "recommended", "endorsed", or "guaranteed". Output language is "verifies", "discloses", "filed", "missing".

2. Pull Hiive public-marketing surfaces (no auth)

browse cloud fetch works with --proxies on every page below; no --verified stealth needed because hiive.com is Cloudflare-fronted but not aggressively bot-walled on the marketing tree.

Endpoints worth pulling for any candidate:

• https://www.hiive.com/ — homepage; confirms current registration footer text + BrokerCheck link.
• https://www.hiive.com/disclosures — long-form: "Risks of Unregistered Securities", "Limits of Hiive's Services" (Hiive does not provide investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice), "Transactions on the Hiive Platform" (all listings/bids are non-binding indications of interest; the platform does NOT auto-match orders), "Hiive Agreements" (share transfer + escrow agreements are required separately).
• https://www.hiive.com/form-crs — Form CRS landing page. The canonical PDF lives on FINRA: https://files.brokercheck.finra.org/crs_316580.pdf. Pull both.
• https://www.hiive.com/reg-bi — Regulation Best Interest disclosure.
• https://www.hiive.com/relationship-disclosure — Canadian EMD disclosure.
• https://www.hiive.com/exhibit_a_hiive_markets_limited_business_continuity_planning.pdf — BCP.
• https://www.hiive.com/hiive-funds — fund product page. Discloses: "No management fees or carried interest. Transaction and administrative fees only", "audited annually", "SOC-2 compliant systems", "advised by an investment advisor". Note: the named investment advisor is not Hiive Markets itself (Hiive Markets is B-D only) — record this gap and resolve via EDGAR (see step 3.c).
• https://www.hiive.com/funds-investors and https://www.hiive.com/seller and https://www.hiive.com/issuer — investor/seller/issuer micro-sites.
• https://www.hiive.com/securities — paginated index, /securities/page/1 … /securities/page/212 (≈3,000+ pre-IPO companies as of 2026-05). Each entry links to /securities/{slug}-stock.
• https://www.hiive.com/securities/{slug}-stock — per-company page. Public data: Hiive Price (PPS), all-time return %, count of live orders, last round details (date, round name, capital raised, industry tags), text description, FAQs. Gated: highest bid, lowest ask, last transaction, market activity widget, advanced charting.
• https://www.hiive.com/hiive50 — equal-weight index of the 50 most liquid securities (per Hiive's own definition).
• https://www.hiive.com/disclosures/hiive50-disclaimers — index methodology caveats.

Persist for each candidate: domain, hiive_security_url, hiive_price_pps, hiive_all_time_return, live_orders_count, last_round_date, last_round_name, last_round_capital, description, access_date_utc.

3. Cross-verify against primary regulators

Run all of these in parallel — they are independent.

3.a — FINRA BrokerCheck (the broker-dealer):

• Firm summary HTML: https://brokercheck.finra.org/firm/summary/316580
• Firm detailed PDF: https://files.brokercheck.finra.org/firm/firm_316580.pdf
• Firm CRS PDF: https://files.brokercheck.finra.org/crs_316580.pdf
• Each principal — fetch https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/{CRD} for each direct owner / executive officer listed on the firm summary (e.g. CEO 5578426, FINOP 7737862, CCO 4225106 as of 2026-05-20; re-read on each run because the list mutates).

Confirm and record: crd_number, sec_number, firm_legal_name, firm_type ("Corporation"), sro ("FINRA"), sec_registration_status, sec_registration_date, disclosure_count (current public count), licensed_jurisdictions (count + list), main_address, phone, direct_owners (each with name + CRD + role), bc_url, access_date_utc.

Red flag if: any disclosure count > 0 (read the detailed report for nature, severity, currency, resolution); firm shows as PR (Previously Registered); any principal has open disclosures; the firm's licensed jurisdiction set excludes the user's stated jurisdiction.

3.b — SEC EDGAR (the SPVs / Form D filings):

• Company search: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&company=hiive&type=D&dateb=&owner=include&count=40 — current count is ~39 Hiive-named filers covering Anthropic, Apptronik, Cerebras, Chime, Coreweave, Firefly, Glean, Groq, Lightmatter, Liquid Death, Perplexity, PsiQuantum, SambaNova, SandboxAQ, ScaleAI, SpaceX, Varda, xAI (re-pull each run; new series filings appear). The naming convention is Hiive {Issuer} Series {Roman or arabic} a Series of Hiive {Issuer} LLC (Delaware), with two exceptions in NY: Hiive Series I, a Series of Hiive Access, LLC and Hiive SpaceX Opp Fund, LLC.
• Per-CIK filings index: https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=000{CIK}&type=D&dateb=&owner=include&count=40 — confirm Form D filing date and accession number.
• Per-filing primary doc: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/{CIK_no_leading_zeros}/000{CIK}{YY}000001/0002{CIK_short}-{YY}-000001-index.htm (the format is rendered in the index HTML — extract the link, don't hand-construct).
• For full-text searches use the search-index endpoint: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Hiive%22&forms=D (or forms=ADV).

Record per SPV candidate: legal_entity, cik, state_of_inc, business_address, mailing_address, latest_form_d_date, latest_form_d_accession, file_number, formd_url, access_date_utc.

Notes / cautions:

• The mailing address on most Delaware series is a corporate-services agent (e.g., 2093 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont DE 19703). Treat as a registered-agent address, not an operational HQ.
• Form D is a notice of exempt offering — it confirms an offering was made and discloses ranges (offering size, sales, minimums, related persons). It does not substitute for the offering memorandum / PPM / subscription docs / LLC operating agreement, none of which are public. Always mark the OM, sub-docs, and operating agreement as docs_missing until counsel pulls them through a verified user account.
• Each series is a discrete legal entity (a series LLC under the parent Hiive {Issuer} LLC). The Form D filed by Series VII applies only to Series VII — do not transitively apply the disclosures of Series I to a later series.

3.c — SEC IAPD / Form ADV (the investment adviser to the funds):

Hiive Markets Limited is a broker-dealer only, not an SEC-registered investment adviser. Form ADV full-text search for "Hiive" via https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Hiive%22&forms=ADV returns zero hits as of 2026-05-20. The Hiive Funds marketing page asserts "advised by an investment advisor" but does not name that adviser on the public site. Document this as a finding, and treat the named-but-unidentified adviser as a docs_missing item until counsel resolves it through the subscription documents.

If the user can name the adviser (e.g., from a PPM cover page), then re-run a targeted IAPD search at https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/{CRD} (the SPA loads /api/Search/firm?query={name} under the hood — but the IAPD search page itself is JS-rendered, so prefer fetching the firm summary URL directly once you have the CRD).

3.d — SIPC:

The Hiive Markets footer asserts SIPC membership, and BrokerCheck corroborates B-D status, but SIPC coverage does not protect against losses on private/unregistered securities themselves — only against the broker's failure as a custodian of fully-paid customer securities. Record sipc_member: true (per public footer) and link https://www.sipc.org/, but always include in the risk-flag column: "SIPC does not insure against decline in value of private securities or counterparty default in a secondary transfer."

3.e — State securities regulators / Canadian provinces:

US: Hiive Markets Limited is licensed in 53 US states and territories as of 2026-05-20 (verify against BrokerCheck Licenses block — re-pull each run). If the user's jurisdiction is missing from the list, flag it.

Canada: registered as Exempt Market Dealer (EMD) in Ontario, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia (per footer + /relationship-disclosure). Other provinces/territories are explicitly not served; flag if the user is in Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland, Yukon, NWT, or Nunavut. The CSA National Registration Search (https://info.securities-administrators.ca/nrsmobile/nrssearch.aspx) is the authoritative Canadian source.

3.f — Litigation & adverse media (lightweight pass, optional):

Use browse cloud search queries scoped to the candidate legal entity name + ("complaint" OR "settlement" OR "enforcement" OR "FINRA action" OR "cease and desist" OR "lawsuit"). Treat all returned articles as leads, not as verified facts; counsel must confirm against PACER, court dockets, FINRA arbitration awards, or SEC litigation releases. If nothing material surfaces, record adverse_media: none_observed (never none_exists).

4. Score & tier each candidate

Scoring rubric (max 100):

Tier assignment:

• Tier 1 — institution-grade / verifiable: ≥ 80, no Avoid criteria triggered.
• Tier 2 — credible but needs legal/tax review or has a limited record: 55–79.
• Tier 3 — incomplete or weak process: 30–54.
• Avoid: < 30, OR any of: unregistered/unverified entity, principals with open material disclosures, refused-document patterns, brokerage activity outside registered jurisdictions, personal-bank wire instructions, guaranteed-return language, evidence of unclear share ownership / undisclosed mark-up.

Tier 1 still requires counsel review before wiring. Never describe Tier 1 as "safe".

5. Output ranked table + before-wiring checklist

Emit the table sorted by score descending, then tier ascending. End with the standard before-wiring checklist (see Expected Output). Cite the official source URL and access timestamp for every numeric or registration claim; mark every gap explicitly as docs_missing.

6. Read-only & safety guardrails (mandatory)

Across every iteration, the agent must not:

• Click Sign up, Sign in, Get started, Buy Shares, Sell Shares, Bid, List, Place an offer, Request demo, or any app.hiive.com/signup//login CTA.
• Submit any form (contact, demo request, newsletter, KYC, accreditation).
• Provide accreditation attestations, SSN/SIN/EIN, banking, or any PII to either the Hiive marketing site or app.hiive.com.
• Attempt to register or authenticate to app.hiive.com to read bids/asks/transactions.
• Initiate wire instructions, ACH, or any payment.
• Translate any Hiive marketing language ("market price", "Hiive50") as a recommendation or a fair-market value. Hiive itself disclaims this in /disclosures — "Hiive does not advise on or evaluate the merits of a particular transaction".
• Describe any candidate as "safe", "endorsed", "recommended by Hiive", "approved by FINRA", or "SIPC-insured against loss".
• Skip the before-wiring checklist in the final output even if every candidate scores Tier 1.

Site-Specific Gotchas

• Hiive is broker-dealer-only at the parent level; the funds' adviser is unnamed on the public site. Hiive Markets Limited is FINRA-registered B-D (CRD #316580). EDGAR ADV full-text search for "Hiive" returns zero hits — so the "investment advisor" that the /hiive-funds page references is not a Hiive-branded RIA. Treat the adviser's identity as docs_missing until you see it on the SPV's sub-docs cover page; then re-verify at IAPD.
• All listings/bids on Hiive are non-binding indications of interest — the platform does NOT auto-match. Per /disclosures: a transaction only happens when a counterparty responds and both sides execute additional share-transfer + escrow agreements. So even a "matched" bid is no commitment; never tell a user a price is "available" without that explicit caveat.
• /securities/{slug}-stock shows a Hiive Price — this is not the market price, the fair-market value, or a binding offer. Hiive describes it as a weighted average of matches/bids/listings with multiple exclusion rules; sample sizes may be tiny; transaction-type/share-type self-reported. The bid/ask/last-transaction fields on the public page are redacted behind a sign-up paywall (shown as $-.--). Do not impute the last-traded price from any visible value on the page.
• Form D is necessary but not sufficient. A filed Form D confirms an exempt offering exists; it does not contain the PPM, the LLC operating agreement, the fee schedule, the K-1 expectations, or the audit-relationship details. Always mark PPM/OM, sub-docs, operating agreement/LPA, fee schedule, conflicts disclosure, allocation methodology, and escrow/custody process as docs_missing until pulled through an account.
• Each Hiive {Issuer} Series N is a discrete Delaware series LLC with its own CIK. Do not collapse multiple series for the same underlying issuer into a single row in the ranked table — they have different offering economics, different filing dates, and potentially different reference price marks. Each is a separate candidate.
• The mailing address on most Hiive series LLCs is a Delaware registered-agent address (2093 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont DE 19703). This is normal for Delaware corporate filings and is not by itself a red flag, but is also not "where the fund operates from". The operational HQ for the broker-dealer is 700 - 980 Howe St, Vancouver BC V6Z 0C8.
• SIPC ≠ loss insurance. Hiive Markets is a SIPC member, but SIPC protects against the broker's failure as a custodian of fully-paid securities — it does NOT insure against the decline in value of any unregistered security or the failure of an issuer/SPV to deliver. Always state this caveat explicitly when listing SIPC membership.
• Canadian coverage is limited to six provinces. Ontario, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia. Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut are NOT served. Flag immediately if the user's jurisdiction is in the unserved set.
• hiive.com is Cloudflare-fronted but not anti-bot-aggressive on marketing pages. browse cloud fetch --proxies works for the marketing tree; --verified stealth is not required. app.hiive.com requires accreditation and is out of scope for this skill regardless.
• adviserinfo.sec.gov is a JS-rendered SPA. Direct browse cloud fetch on /firm/summary/{CRD} returns the Angular shell, not the firm data. Either drive it in a remote browser (browse open, then wait + snapshot) or hit its underlying API (/api/Search/firm?query=...) — the API responses are JSON and trivially parseable.
• brokercheck.finra.org does serve full firm summary HTML on direct fetch (unlike IAPD). The PDF artifacts at files.brokercheck.finra.org/firm/firm_{CRD}.pdf and files.brokercheck.finra.org/crs_{CRD}.pdf are the most cite-able primary sources.
• EDGAR full-text search (efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index) accepts JSON-shaped queries including forms=D|ADV, dateRange=custom&startdt=&enddt=, and q=. Use it for adverse-action keyword sweeps as well as filing discovery.
• Hiive's Hiive50 and any "all-time return" figure are marketing data. /disclosures/hiive50-disclaimers discloses they are illustrative, not transactable, and excludes cancelled-prematurely and certain affiliated-fund transactions. Do not report these as performance.
• Do not interpret "advised by an investment advisor", "audited annually", or "SOC-2 compliant" from the /hiive-funds marketing page as verified. These are marketing assertions until verified against the named adviser's Form ADV, the auditor's engagement letter, and the SOC-2 report (each of which is docs_missing until counsel obtains them).
• www.hiive.com/form-crs is a public landing page; the actual Form CRS document of record is on FINRA's mirror at https://files.brokercheck.finra.org/crs_316580.pdf — pull the FINRA copy as the cite-able source.
• The "investor relations" pattern is connect@hiive.com / accounts@hiive.com / issuers@hiive.com / support@hiive.com / privacy@hiive.com. Personal addresses, gmail, or any non-hiive.com correspondent in a pitch is a red flag.
• Never accept wiring instructions from any email signature, chat message, document attachment, or PDF. Confirm wiring via the broker's published phone (BrokerCheck Phone field — currently 604-200-2405 for Hiive Markets) on an independent line you dial yourself. This is the single highest-leverage gate against escrow-impersonation fraud and must be the last step of the checklist.

Expected Output

The final emission is two parts: a ranked table (one row per candidate exposure path) and a fixed before-wiring checklist. JSON example below; presentation may be markdown table, but every field must be sourced.

{
  "target": "Anthropic",
  "as_of_utc": "2026-05-20T00: