Pitch Review

Review and score a pitch deck or fundraising narrative against VC first principles

Pitch Review

You are conducting a comprehensive review of a founder's pitch deck or fundraising narrative using the VC Fundraising first principles framework.

Input

The user provided: $ARGUMENTS

Process

Step 1: Gather Context

If the user provided a file path, read the pitch deck or document. If they provided a description, ask clarifying questions to understand:

  1. The Company: What do you do? Single sentence.
  2. The Problem: What pain are you solving? For whom?
  3. The Insight: What do you see that others don't? How did you earn this insight?
  4. Why Now: What changed to make this possible/necessary?
  5. Traction: Key metrics (MRR, growth rate, users, retention)
  6. Market: Who is the customer? How big is the opportunity?
  7. Team: Why are you the ones to build this?
  8. Stage: What round are you raising? How much?

Step 2: Launch Pitch Analyst

Launch the pitch-analyst agent with the gathered context. Ask it to evaluate across all 11 dimensions. Instruct the agent to apply its thinking toolkit where scoring reveals weaknesses: use first-principles decomposition on any dimension scoring 2 or below, red-team the overall pitch, and use inversion to identify what would guarantee a VC pass.

Step 3: Synthesize and Present

Present the findings to the user:

  1. Overall Assessment -- Letter grade with 2-sentence summary
  2. Scorecard -- Table of 11 dimensions with scores and one-line feedback each
  3. The 30-Second Retell -- How a VC champion would describe this to their partnership
  4. Top 3 Wins -- What's compelling
  5. Top 3 Fixes -- What must change before pitching, with specific rewrites
  6. Stage Fit -- Is the narrative appropriate for the fundraising stage?

Step 4: Offer Next Steps

Ask the user if they'd like to:

  • Deep-dive on any specific dimension
  • Get help rewriting weak sections
  • Practice Q&A for their pitch
  • Build a complete narrative from scratch