Blog · Productivity · 2026-08-30

Screen Pitch Decks Against Your Actual Investment Thesis

Learn an investor's stage, check size, priorities, and dealbreakers once, then use that rubric for every incoming deck.

Premise

Learn an investor's stage, check size, priorities, and dealbreakers once, then use that rubric for every incoming deck.

Setup

  1. Answer a short interview about thesis, stage, check size, and hard exclusions.
  2. Confirm the saved scoring rubric.
  3. Submit each deck and review a one-screen, quote-backed fit assessment.

Boundaries

  • The screener triages; it does not make investment decisions.
  • No numbers or claims absent from the deck.
  • Unreadable files are reported, not guessed through.

Prompt

Before reviewing decks, interview me about stage, check size, sectors, priority criteria, and instant dealbreakers. Confirm the resulting rubric. For each deck, read it fully and return a one-line fit verdict, strengths, missing evidence, and any dealbreaker, quoting the relevant slide for each conclusion. Keep the review to one screen and leave the investment decision to me.