EarlySignals scores new startups the week they raise, launch, or leave stealth. Featured: Auxilius turns corporate audit controls into agent-maintained code. Link below ⬇️ Chris Hoppe spent twelve years at EY and co-founded its virtual internal audit practice; he now builds with former Sopra Steria architect James Barnes. Their platform converts policies and regulations into scripts that test controls continuously, replacing periodic sampling with full-population checks. That matters most under DORA and the EU AI Act, where financial firms owe auditable evidence chains that dashboard tools struggle to produce. It raised a €1.3M pre-seed in July 2026 led by HTGF and reports its first enterprise customers in regulated industries. Scored 78 on scoop and 72 on potential in our July 13 issue.