I’m a technical founder who also does early-stage investing. I read a lot of cold pitches and a big chunk fail on basic clarity (“what are you building?”) or “why now?”.
So I built a small tool that behaves like a cynical automated IC screen. Paste your elevator pitch, and it returns a VC-readiness score (0–100) and a blunt one-line verdict.
Under the hood it’s an LLM-as-judge setup with two rubric modes: Genesis (pre-seed: insight/wedge/team) and Velocity (seed: traction/distribution/moat). Output is forced into a strict JSON schema and validated server-side.
It’s free for score + verdict. For transparency: there’s an optional paid upgrade ($49) that generates a longer “Confidential IC Memo” (bear case, bull case, partner rewrite) emailed to you, mainly to cover API costs and because it acts as a high-intent filter.
If you can break it (prompt injection / weird formatting/edge cases), I’d genuinely love to see it. I’m still tuning calibration, so feedback on where it’s unfairly brutal or misses nuance is super helpful.
Show HN: Paste your startup pitch, get a VC-readiness score (0–100)
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