Upload your pitch, record yourself delivering it, and see what the room hears: fillers, rushed sections, flat tone, weak pauses, and whether the story is persuasive enough to earn the next meeting.
You'll never get a second first impression.
"Great traction, not quite our stage right now." Translation: slide 1 described a category. They never found the insight.
You never heard yourself from the investor's seat. The ums, rushed ask, and flat traction line stayed invisible until the room felt it.
Your strongest proof needed silence after it. You kept talking, so the number sounded like another sentence instead of the reason to lean in.
Every recorded rehearsal gives you one fix. No recording means no mirror, no notes, and the same delivery mistake survives to the real pitch.
VCs make the pass decision before you finish the first slide. The narrative either earns the next 10 minutes or it doesn't.
"Most founders describe their market on slide 1. The ones who get funded state an insight. Those are two completely different openings — investors know within 60 seconds which one they're looking at."
Paste your pitch deck content — problem, solution, market size, traction, team, and ask. You can paste slide-by-slide text, a full narrative, or your pitch script. The more complete, the sharper the critique.
The diagnostic evaluates your pitch the way an early-stage investor does in 60 seconds: Does the problem resonate? Is the solution differentiated? Is market sizing credible (bottom-up, not top-down)? Is traction evidence specific? Does the team have the right to win this problem?
Each finding identifies where the narrative breaks down and why. The top fix tells you which single change most improves your chance of getting a follow-up meeting.
The questions an investor answers in the first 60 seconds of reading your pitch:
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