Beyond the slides
Deck analyzers grade your slides. Investors grade your company. We look beyond the deck to find what they’ll question - and what you can fix before the meeting.
How the review works
- Slides read
- 00/20
- Flags
- 0/5
01 · Read
Send your materials. Then we talk.
Share your deck, model and notes. We ask the hard questions, including what isn’t written down.
What the report covers
Your business. Your opportunity. Your raise.
Our team’s judgment, informed by research and a decade building for startups: what holds up, what doesn’t, and what to do next.
Model
SaaS + payments
$640 average per marina, per month
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Holes in the business
Where the model, market, traction or numbers don’t support the story.
- Model
- Market
- Traction
- Team
- Numbers
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Holes in the deck
Unsupported claims, missing proof and conflicting figures.
- 03
The competitor you left out
Who’s already selling to your buyers - and why investors will bring them up.
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Slow steps first
Regulation, cap-table fixes and other dependencies funding can’t speed up.
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The one pattern
The underlying issue connecting the findings, and where to start.
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Facts to get straight
The hard questions to answer before your first meeting.
What you get back
An honest verdict, with reasons.
What the round needs to prove, what to fix first and which questions need your answer. Explore a sample for a fictional company.
Contents
Grounded in evidence
The reasoning behind the read.
Our team checks the evidence behind each judgment. Press + to see the sources, reasoning and what could change our view.
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Source. The evidence we checked.
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Doing. What each source establishes.
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Together. What the evidence shows together.
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Concluded. Our conclusion and why.
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Would change. What could change the conclusion.
1. The Answer, In One Page
Re-cut the story as the booking and payments layer for independent marinas, with the consumer app as upside rather than the thesis. That version survives diligence. The current version invites a valuation you cannot defend.
The one pattern
“The deck pitches a marketplace, and the evidence describes a well-liked booking tool.”
From the sample report. We name the central issue so you know what to fix first.
Venture scouting · NYC
A review can open a door.
We scout startups for investors in NYC. If your company looks like a fit for someone in our network, we’ll ask your permission to put it forward. We can’t promise investor interest or funding.
Know what’s coming.
Get a free, human-reviewed read on your business and raise. Honest enough that some of it may be hard to hear.