No. 01 — The Review
For founders, before investors
Brutally honest
feedback on your
pitch deck —
before investors see it.
A partner-level teardown in under 60 seconds. Upload a PDF, or paste the text. Get the notes a VC would write in the margin but never actually send you — the gaps in your narrative, the weak slide, the line that gets you roasted in the first meeting.
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Dimensions scored · weighted by stage
— Drop zone
Drop your deck here. Or
paste it as text.
paste it as text.
or
— Spec
Input
PDF, or paste slide text
Limit
Any number of slides, up to 10 MB
Privacy
Not stored. Not used for training.
Turnaround
Under 60 seconds
Output
Stage-weighted score, red flags, next steps
Cost
Free — no account
— Proof of output
The notes a partner
would actually write.
would actually write.
An excerpt from a real review.
03 / Market
A $48B market, untapped.
We’re going after the enterprise compliance automation space — a large, broken category where incumbents are slow, expensive, and built on pre-cloud infrastructure. Our wedge is SMB, where existing tools are unusable and the cost of non-compliance is rising.
$48B
Total market
12%
CAGR
∞
Opportunity
Nova Labs · Seed deck03 / 14
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Slide 03 · Critical · Market & Why Now
“Untapped” is a red flag, not a selling point.
If a $48B market is actually untapped in 2026, the first question is why. You’re telling a seasoned investor that dozens of well-funded teams missed an obvious opportunity. Reframe as a structural shift you’re exploiting — new regulation, new buyer, new distribution.
Slide 03 · Critical · TAM math
$48B is a category, not a TAM.
Show the bottoms-up: # of SMBs × ACV × penetration. The Gartner-shaped number at the top of the slide is what every associate will prod at first. Pre-empt it.
Slide 03 · Moderate · Visual
An infinity symbol is not a metric.
Cute in a pitch at a bar. In a seed deck it reads unserious. Replace with a concrete wedge metric — ACV, contract length, or the switching cost of an incumbent.
+ more notes across the deck
§ 03 — METHOD
Three steps.
Under a minute.
Under a minute.
No account required
for your first review.
for your first review.
01.
Upload the deck, or paste the text.
PDF up to 10 MB. Keynote and PowerPoint export to PDF. Or paste your slide text directly. Nothing is stored, logged, or used for training.
Upload
02.
We run the teardown a partner would.
Six dimensions — team, problem and solution, market and why-now, competition and defensibility, traction, and business model. Weighted for the stage we detect from the deck.
Review
03.
You get a score, red flags, and a prioritised fix list.
A stage-weighted score out of 100, critical and moderate red flags, and up to eight concrete edits to make before you send it. Download the whole thing as a PDF.
Verdict
— Voices
What founders
actually say.
actually say.
Unpaid. Not curated.
“
Caught three things in my deck I would have gotten roasted for in the first meeting.
— Maya R.
Founder, seed-stage fintech
Founder, seed-stage fintech
“
Like having a partner-level review without the awkward ask.
— Daniel K.
Founder, Series A dev tools
Founder, Series A dev tools
“
More honest than what most of my friendly VCs told me.
— Priya S.
Founder, pre-seed consumer
Founder, pre-seed consumer
— What it checks
What it actually
checks for.
checks for.
Weighted by stage
— Team
Who and why, not what and when.
TM.01
Founder-market fit, stated in plain English.A Stanford bullet is not founder-market fit.
TM.02
Relevant experience tied to the wedge, not a resume dump.Why you, specifically, for this problem.
TM.03
Credibility signals that aren't the advisor wall.If advisors dominate the slide, partners notice.
— Problem & Solution
Does it land in ten seconds?
PS.01
Problem felt by a specific, named user.Not "everyone who has ever…"
PS.02
Solution is the obvious answer, not a feature list.The solution should follow from the problem.
PS.03
Why now — a forcing function, not a trend line."AI is big" is not a why-now.
— Market & Why Now
TAM, wedge, and the lie of $48B.
MW.01
Bottoms-up TAM with the math shown.Customers × ACV × penetration. Not a Gartner pie chart.
MW.02
The wedge is one sentence.If it takes a diagram, it isn't a wedge.
MW.03
Timing cites a structural shift.New buyer, new regulation, new distribution, new cost curve.
— Competition & Defensibility
Honest differentiation.
CD.01
Named competitors with an honest diff."We have no competition" reads as naïveté.
CD.02
The moat is specific — technical, data, or distribution."Network effects" without mechanism is hand-waving.
CD.03
Market map distinguishes incumbents from adjacents.A 2×2 is not a moat.
— Traction & Validation
Numbers that survive the first question.
TV.01
Revenue shown net, not gross.Watch for GMV-as-revenue. Partners do.
TV.02
Growth rate annotated with absolute values."300% MoM" on $400 MRR is a concern, not a win.
TV.03
Retention curve, or a reason there isn't one.No cohort chart reads as avoidance.
TV.04
Pipeline separated from closed-won.LOIs are not revenue. Investors know.
— Business Model
Pricing, unit economics, and the ask.
BM.01
Pricing stated, not implied.ACV, contract length, payment terms — concrete.
BM.02
Unit economics appropriate for the stage.Gross margin, CAC, payback. Or why they're not here yet.
BM.03
Ask tied to milestones, not months."18 months of runway" is not a use of funds.