Founder Fundraising OS

Model your cap table and dilution across SAFEs, option pools, and priced rounds so you know what you actually own.

Builds a defensible TAM/SAM/SOM market-sizing model with bottom-up and top-down triangulation and a low/base/high sensitivity range. Use when someone asks "how big is the market", "calculate my TAM", "size this opportunity", is preparing an investor deck market slide, or needs to defend a market number under diligence. Do NOT use for revenue projections of an existing business - use revenue-modeling instead.

Builds a complete personal financial plan - a prioritized order of operations across budgeting, emergency savings, debt payoff, and goals - from the user's actual numbers, then routes each piece to the right specialist skill. Use when someone asks "help me get my finances in order", "where should my money go first", "should I pay off debt or save", "am I doing okay financially", or "build me a financial plan". Do NOT use for constructing the monthly budget itself - use budget-builder instead; for sequencing multiple debts - use debt-payoff-planner; for sizing the cash cushion - use emergency-fund-planner; for investing fundamentals - use investment-basics; for retirement readiness math - use retirement-projection; for lowering a tax bill - use tax-optimization; for evaluating one large purchase - use big-purchase-decision.

Builds the five-beat narrative spine - origin, insight, wedge, traction, vision - that answers why now, why you, and why this before any deck exists. Use when a founder says "help me craft my fundraising story", "investors don't get what we do", "what's our narrative for this round", or has metrics and a product but no story that survives a partner meeting. Do NOT use for turning the story into slides - use pitch-deck-builder instead; do NOT use for deciding stage, amount, or valuation - use fundraising-stage-selector instead.

Build the investor pitch deck slide by slide - the 11 slides VCs expect, in the order they expect them.

Use when a founder needs to prepare materials for investor due diligence. Triggers on "set up a data room", "what goes in a data room", "diligence checklist", "prepare for due diligence", "investors asked for our data room". Builds the organized, staged room that makes diligence fast and confidence-building.

Use when a founder is shaping the team for a raise or hiring against the round. Triggers on "team slide", "what hires do investors want", "how much equity for an early hire", "key hire before fundraising", "is my team fundable", "hiring plan for the round". Connects the team story, the gap-filling hires, and the equity to grant.

Use when a founder needs to decide which investors to approach and how to reach them. Triggers on "which VCs should I target", "build my investor list", "find the right investors", "warm intro path", "angels vs VCs", "who invests in my space", "investor research". Produces a ranked, researched target list with warm paths.

Writes cold investor outreach under 100 words - a subject line built on the company's strongest verifiable metric, a personalized why-them opening line, traction before the ask, and a low-friction meeting request - delivered as three subject options, the email body with word count, and a follow-up line for five days later. Use when a founder asks "write a cold email to this VC", "how do I get an investor meeting", "pitch my seed round over email", or is starting investor outreach. Do NOT use for choosing which investors to contact - use investor-targeting instead - or for post-investment monthly updates - use investor-update-writer instead - or for non-investor sales outreach - use cold-email-craft instead.

Run the raise as a tight sales pipeline - stages, cadence, and timing that manufacture momentum and competitive tension.

Drafts a monthly or quarterly investor update - TL;DR, consistent metric block (revenue, growth rate, burn, runway), highlights, honest lowlights, a specific ask, and next-period priorities - in a repeatable one-screen format. Use when someone asks "write my investor update", "what should go in my monthly update", "how do I tell investors about a bad month", or when a founder is due to report to their cap table. Do NOT use for updates to internal teams, executives, or non-investor stakeholders - use stakeholder-update instead. Do NOT use for crafting the fundraising story for new investors - use fundraising-narrative instead.

Use when a founder needs to rehearse a pitch or prepare for investor questions. Triggers on "practice my pitch", "mock investor meeting", "what will VCs ask me", "help me prep for a partner meeting", "investor Q&A drill", "I freeze on hard questions", "rehearse my deck". Runs realistic rehearsal and objection drills.

Audits whether a seed-stage company clears the Series A bar - benchmark metrics, narrative, team, and data room - and produces a red/yellow/green readiness scorecard with a 90-day gap-closing plan. Use when a founder asks "am I ready for Series A", "what metrics do I need to raise an A", "what goes in a Series A data room", "should I raise now or wait two quarters", or is deciding when to open an A process. Do NOT use for a general pre-pitch hygiene check at any stage - use fundraise-readiness-audit instead - or for choosing which round to raise at all - use fundraising-stage-selector instead.

Runs structured diligence on an investment or acquisition target across four workstreams - commercial, financial, technical, and legal - and produces a red-flag register split into deal-killers versus manageable risks with a go/no-go recommendation. Use when someone asks "what should I check before investing", "run diligence on this company", "is this deal clean", or is preparing to wire money into a startup or acquisition. Do NOT use for decoding the clauses of a term sheet - use term-sheet-explainer instead; for negotiating terms, use term-sheet-negotiation; for building the target's data room from the company side, use data-room-builder.

Decodes every clause of a VC term sheet into plain English, marks each term founder-favorable, market-standard, or investor-favorable, and flags deviations in priority order. Use when a founder asks "what does liquidation preference mean", "is this term sheet normal", "explain participating preferred", "what is the option pool shuffle", or receives a term sheet and needs to understand it before responding. Do NOT use for planning counters, trades, and negotiation strategy - use term-sheet-negotiation instead; do NOT use for choosing between a SAFE and a priced round - use safe-vs-priced-round instead.

Use when a founder is choosing how to structure a raise. Triggers on "SAFE vs priced round", "should I use a SAFE", "valuation cap vs discount", "post-money SAFE", "convertible note", "when to do a priced round", "MFN clause". Explains the instruments and their real dilution consequences.

Negotiate valuation and the terms that actually matter - preferences, board, protective provisions, pool - with real leverage.

Drives a fundraise from signed term sheet to wired money - a closing checklist covering confirmatory diligence with same-day response discipline, the definitive-docs list (stock purchase agreement, charter, investor rights, board consents), closing conditions with owners and dates, re-trade defense, multi-party sequencing behind the lead, and post-wire actions like share issuance and the first investor update. Use when a founder asks "what happens after the term sheet", "how long does closing take", "the investor is dragging on confirmatory diligence", or "when does the money actually arrive". Do NOT use for negotiating the term sheet itself - use term-sheet-negotiation instead - or for assembling the diligence materials - use data-room-builder instead.