Resources · free, data-backed, shareable
Playbooks, prompts,
and teardowns.
What we have learned from scoring 382 founder decks, sending 4,200 cold emails, and tracking 47,000+ active investors. Tactical, with real numbers, written for founders raising right now.
Latest in each category
The 7-dimension pitch-deck rubric VCs actually use
How Claude scores every deck across 7 dimensions, what a 90 looks like vs a 55 on each, and the specific signals that move the score in either direction.
8 min read
🧰 Template12 Claude prompts every founder raising should save
The exact prompts we run through Prompt Studio for deck rewrites, investor research, and cold-email drafting. Copy, paste, ship.
7 min read
🔬 TeardownA real seed deck, scored 72, then rewritten to FUNDABLE
Slide-by-slide walkthrough of an anonymized seed deck. What scored low on the first pass, what changed in the rewrite, and why the second version closed a $2.1M round in 19 days.
9 min read
📊 ResearchThe state of pre-seed in 2026
Check sizes, lead-time to term sheet, most-active funds by vertical. Pulled from 8,665 enriched investors and 132 founder decks scored on VCboom.
8 min read
🎯 PlaybookCold email that actually gets opened, 14% reply rate playbook
What separates a 2% reply rate from a 14% reply rate. Subject lines, first-line hooks, the 4-sentence body structure, and the follow-up cadence that closes loops.
7 min read
📘 Guide
Guides
Walkthroughs of how the system works, from rubric to research workflow.
The 7-dimension pitch-deck rubric VCs actually use
How Claude scores every deck across 7 dimensions, what a 90 looks like vs a 55 on each, and the specific signals that move the score in either direction.
8 min read
Investor research without Crunchbase, the free toolkit
How to build a 50-fund target list with public sources only. Five free tools, the exact search queries, the data fields that actually matter, and the order to do them in.
7 min read
🧰 Template
Templates
Copy-paste prompts and structures, ready to use today.
🔬 Teardown
Teardowns
Real decks, scored and rewritten. What changed and why.
📊 Research
Research
Numbers from the database. State of the market, by stage.
🎯 Playbook
Playbooks
Step-by-step playbooks for the moments that matter most.
Cold email that actually gets opened, 14% reply rate playbook
What separates a 2% reply rate from a 14% reply rate. Subject lines, first-line hooks, the 4-sentence body structure, and the follow-up cadence that closes loops.
7 min read
Fundraising seasons, when VCs actually deploy
The four windows per year when VC checks move fastest, why each window matters, and how to time your launch to land in the deployment window instead of the dead zone.
6 min read
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The resources above are useful at any stage. They become specific to your raise once we have your deck and AI can rank investors against it.
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