• Resolutiion's round is put at $10m by Sifted and $10.4m by TechFundingNews — the two primary reports on the deal disagree on the exact figure.
• Founder Fayola-Maria Jack built the company's thesis on her own record running the RAF's commercial contracts and then the Cabinet Office's Complex Transactions Team, per TechFundingNews.
• The product, an AI system called Octavia, targets the post-signature stage of a contract — trying to predict a dispute rather than just reviewing terms upfront.
• The syndicate mixes a UK seed specialist (LocalGlobe, part of Phoenix Court Group) with a Berlin fund (Cherry) and a female-founder-focused fund (Auxxo) — a shape typical of London enterprise-software seed rounds, not a single dominant lead.
• Resolutiion's market framing — that a fifth of contracts end in dispute, costing up to £90m per £1bn of contract value — comes from the company's own reporting and has not been independently verified here.

Resolutiion, a London startup founded by former RAF commercial lead Fayola-Maria Jack, has closed a seed round Sifted puts at $10m and TechFundingNews reports as $10.4m, backed by Cherry Ventures, LocalGlobe, Octopus Ventures and Auxxo. The wager is narrow: that buyers with large, complex supply contracts — defence primes, energy operators, manufacturers — will pay for software that predicts a dispute is forming before it reaches lawyers, rather than software that only reviews contract terms at signing. What makes the pitch land with slow-moving institutional buyers, investors are betting, is that Jack ran the exact procurement function she is now selling into.

The bet, in deal terms

Neither outlet discloses valuation, dilution or a single formally named lead. Sifted's headline frames LocalGlobe and Cherry Ventures as the two investors driving the round; TechFundingNews adds Octopus Ventures, Auxxo and Openseed VC to the cap table. That gap is ordinary for a London seed round, but it means Resolutiion's traction claims are, for now, what named investors are underwriting rather than a disclosed revenue or usage number Traction can check independently.

What Octavia does

The product, called Octavia, is pitched by TechFundingNews as an 'AI operating system for live enterprise conflict management' — it monitors a contract after signature and tries to surface early warning signs of a brewing disagreement between a buyer and a supplier or subcontractor. That is a different problem than most contract-lifecycle-management tools solve, which cluster around drafting, negotiation and compliance before ink dries.

A founder who worked inside the problem

Fayola-Maria Jack led the commercial transformation of the Royal Air Force's roughly £6bn of operations before moving to the Cabinet Office's Complex Transactions Team, according to TechFundingNews. Her stated insight, per that reporting, is that by the time a dispute reaches a legal team, most of the value that could have been salvaged is already gone — the premise Resolutiion is built to test commercially rather than just observe from inside government procurement.

The syndicate, read structurally

The investor list is a typical London enterprise-seed shape rather than a single dominant lead: LocalGlobe, the pre-seed/seed fund under Robin and Saul Klein's Phoenix Court Group, sits alongside Cherry Ventures — a Berlin fund writing outside its home market — and Auxxo, which invests only in startups with a female founder. That mix signals a UK-domiciled bet syndicated across multiple funds' theses (seed-stage generalist, cross-border enterprise, founder-diversity mandate) rather than one investor underwriting the category alone.

The unverified part

Resolutiion's own framing, cited by TechFundingNews, is that a fifth of contracts end in dispute and that this can cost up to £90m for every £1bn of contract value, inside a contract-management software market it estimates growing from $3.65bn to $9.62bn by 2034. These figures come from the company's own pitch as relayed by a single outlet; Traction could not independently verify the underlying studies or methodology behind either stat, and treats them as claimed rather than confirmed.

The verdict

This is a credible seed bet on a genuinely underserved slice of contract management — post-signature dispute prediction rather than pre-signature review — made more credible by a founder who ran the exact procurement function she's now selling into. The open question isn't the technology, it's the sales cycle: defence, energy and manufacturing buyers move slowly and risk-averse, and a $10m round buys Resolutiion time to prove Octavia works inside those cycles, not yet proof that it has.