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Write up the idea, attach the deck, and get it taken apart the way an investment professional actually reviews it. Not a live conversation - a document where every conclusion traces back to a source.

Where the standard comes from

Built from the side of the table that says no

The judgment standards used in TIPS evaluation and in real VC investment screening, plus the memo discipline top VC firms use to write an investment memo - encoded directly into the engine. It talks the way a reviewer talks internally, not the way a pitch coach talks to a founder.

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scoring axes
9
absence checks
A-D
evidence grades

TIPS evaluation experience

What actually gets filtered out in the room. The official announcement and operating guidelines are pinned by version and effective date.

Real VC screening practice

How screening memos and IC materials are actually used, and which sentences collapse first once due diligence starts.

Top-VC investment memo discipline

Grade every claim, and separate what the company says from what has been verified - down to the grammar of the sentence.

What you get

This is what the report looks like

Submitting does not open a chat. It produces a report. These three panels are what sits on the first page.

Investor Assessmentp.1
CONDITIONAL GO
Score 68/100confidence mediumevidence coverage 82%

Retention looks real, but the expansion logic stands on claims with no contract behind them.

What would flip this call

  • Customer concentration - confirm the top-3 share against signed contracts and the call changes
  • Definition of repeat - no denominator, no period, so the 12pp lift is excluded from the basis
  • Four MOUs - strip the ones booked as committed revenue and next year's plan is re-run

GO does not mean “invest.” It means “on the current materials, this is worth advancing to due diligence.”

Gates come before the score. Even with a high total, a mandate mismatch, a material numeric contradiction, or a statutory block means no GO. Every verdict carries a confidence level and an evidence-coverage figure.

Scorecard, 10 axes1-5
Team & Execution4/5
Problem & Target Customer4/5
Market & Timing3/5
Product / Tech / Defensibility3/5
Competition & Positioning2/5
Traction & PMF4/5
Go-to-Market & Scalability3/5
Business Model & Unit Economics2/5
Financial Plan / Funding / Return3/5
Risk Recognition & Evidence Quality2/5

Each axis gets a 1-5 score, the reasoning, and the level expected at this stage. Where the materials say nothing, no score is invented - the report states what would be needed to score it.

Evidence dashboard48 claims

Evidence grade distribution

A Audited, contracted, system records · 6B Source data, references · 11C Deck narrative, unsupported · 22D Assertion with no basis · 9
31
Company-supplied
6
Verified
14
Missing
2
Contradicted

Document parse coverage 82%

Every claim is graded, then counted separately as company-supplied, verified, inferred, missing, or contradicted. That distribution is the ceiling on how confident the verdict is allowed to be.

The report also includes

Commercial due diligence, 9 sections

Market, competition, customer, product and tech, traction and GTM, business model, team, upside, risk. Each section ends with the challenge questions the founder has to answer.

Ask and structure review

Whether the raise connects to the cash needed to reach the next milestone. Where the materials fall short, no number is invented - the report states what it would take to set one.

Diligence plan

Five gating questions that have to resolve first, the evidence request list, and a 30/60/90-day validation plan.

Deck improvement plan

Keep, cut, add, reorder - plus slide-level notes and a recommended story arc.

How it works

Write it, attach it, receive it

All you need is the idea. Materials make it sharper; without them the review still runs.

1

Write it up

A structured intake asks what the business does, what stage you are at, and what you actually want challenged. That alone is enough to start.

2

Attach the materials

Deck, business plan, and financials as PDF, PPTX, or DOCX. Everything is read page by page and slide by slide so citations keep their coordinates. Image-only slides aren't skipped - pages that can't be read as text are read straight from the original as images.

3

Get the report

It is generated in the background, so you can close the tab. When it lands, the verdict, scorecard, deep dive, diligence plan, and improvement plan are all one document.

What it catches

The things that get flagged

Real deduction items, in plain language. Most of them trigger on sentence structure and number lineage alone - regardless of how polished the deck is.

Unsourced market size

A ten-billion-dollar market with no source, and no line showing which slice you can actually sell into.

Strawman competitors

A comparison table stacked with beatable names, while whatever the customer uses today is missing from it.

Founder anecdote, generalized

One person's frustration scaled up to a whole market with no validation. If it never says who was asked and how, this fires.

GMV presented as revenue

Gross transaction value and net revenue used interchangeably. Without a net take-rate figure, unit economics cannot be computed at all.

No risk, no kill criteria

Nothing on what could go wrong, or what result would make you stop. Absence shows through no matter how good the deck looks.

MOUs booked as revenue

MOUs, LOIs, and pipeline sitting on the same line as contracted revenue. Only what a contract supports survives as the base case.

Breakeven as a date only

“BEP in H2 next year” with no back-solve for how many units at what price it takes to get there.

Superlatives with no yardstick

“First in the country,” “best-in-class accuracy” - with no comparison set and no measurement method attached.

Why it's different

A good deck and a good business are scored separately

Clean design and a smooth narrative make a deck pleasant to read. They do not change the investment call. So the two are scored on separate tracks.

Substance

The 10-axis scorecard and the investment verdict come from here. No amount of deck craft moves this number.

Delivery

Clarity, structure, sourcing, and numeric consistency are scored on their own track with their own fix list. The one path back into substance is this: if a metric has no definition, denominator, or period, the claim itself cannot be verified - and it gets downgraded on both.

And it counts what the deck never says

These nine are binary - present or absent - so they are assessed independently of how polished the deck is. It is an objective check, unaffected by visual flair or presentation.

Risk sectionKill criteriaNet take rateBEP volumeCost planAxis of advantageCounter-segmentSecond-order effectsSwitching cost

TIPS readiness

TIPS readiness is diagnosed separately

The official announcement and operating guidelines are pinned by version and effective date, then your materials are checked against eligibility and each dimension. For every item you get what is missing, what an evaluator is likely to ask, and what would close it.

READYNEEDS WORKNOT ELIGIBLEUNABLE TO ASSESS
This diagnostic is not a prediction of the official selection outcome, and it is not official government or operator scoring. Weightings that have not been published are never guessed at - only published criteria are used, as written.

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