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:
- The Company: What do you do? Single sentence.
- The Problem: What pain are you solving? For whom?
- The Insight: What do you see that others don't? How did you earn this insight?
- Why Now: What changed to make this possible/necessary?
- Traction: Key metrics (MRR, growth rate, users, retention)
- Market: Who is the customer? How big is the opportunity?
- Team: Why are you the ones to build this?
- 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:
- Overall Assessment -- Letter grade with 2-sentence summary
- Scorecard -- Table of 11 dimensions with scores and one-line feedback each
- The 30-Second Retell -- How a VC champion would describe this to their partnership
- Top 3 Wins -- What's compelling
- Top 3 Fixes -- What must change before pitching, with specific rewrites
- 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