For funders
A straight read on every project, before you give it an hour.
You have seen the version of this that wastes your time: a deck with no budget, a plan with no timeline, a team page with no relevant credit on it. You find out forty minutes in. Every project here has been read against a published standard first, so what reaches you is complete enough to actually judge.
Free for funders. Always. Founders pay for their own assessments — see the FAQ below for what that means and what it does not.
illustrative · the sorting is the work
The work is not the reading. It is the sorting.
Most of what crosses your desk was never a fit, and you cannot tell which until you are already inside it. So the decisions that matter get made on whatever was easiest to see: a warm introduction, a familiar pattern, a founder who happened to guess what you wanted to hear.
The cost is not only the time. It is the good project you passed on because its materials were too rough to show the thing underneath.
- not found A budget with any basis under it
- not found Who is actually committed
- not found A source for the headline number
- not found What happens if this slips
- found Forty minutes, already spent
How it works
01
Tell us what you fund
Project type, size, geography, and anything else in your own words. It stays private. Nothing is published, sold, or shown to founders.
02
See projects that did the work
Every project has been read against the same published rubric before it reaches you. You see what the materials contain and, just as usefully, what they still do not.
03
Follow what you care about
Back something, or just watch it. Owners post progress against their own milestones, so you keep hearing from a project after the pitch instead of only during it.
What this does and does not do
It does not rank projects for you, predict which will succeed, or tell you where to put money. No score here is a recommendation, and a high one is not a good investment.
What it does is narrow. It reads each project's materials against a fixed standard and reports what is there and what is missing. That is a first read, done consistently, before you spend the hour. The judgment stays entirely yours.
- Less time spent working out what a project even is
- Gaps visible before the meeting, not during it
- Fewer good projects lost to bad materials
- A reason to keep hearing from projects after the pitch
What people using it say
Most of what I am sent is half-finished, and I only find that out once I am already inside it. Getting something that has been read against a standard first means I am judging the project rather than reassembling it.
The value for us is on the operations side. We know before a conversation starts which pieces are actually documented and which are still someone saying so.
A lot of good projects in our network were losing out because their materials did not do them justice. Having a consistent standard to point people at has changed how those conversations go.
It told me what our deck was not saying, which was not what I expected to hear and was more useful than what I expected to hear.
The list of things it could not find in our materials was the part I acted on. Half of it we fixed the same week.
Funder access
Request access
Tell us what you fund and we will get you set up. There is nothing to pay.
Questions worth asking
- What does it cost me?
- Nothing. No subscription, no per-deal fee, no commission, no carry.
- Who pays, then?
- Project owners pay for their own assessments. The rubric is published and fixed, so paying for one does not change what it says.
- Is a score a recommendation?
- No. It measures whether a project's materials answer the questions a funder would ask. It says nothing about whether the project is a good investment, and a well-documented weak idea can score higher than a poorly documented strong one.
- Is what I tell you private?
- Yes. What you fund and how much stays between us. It is not published, not sold, and not shown to project owners. You are never listed publicly without asking for it.
- Do you take a position in anything listed?
- Ask us directly about any specific project and we will tell you plainly. Where we have any interest in something you are looking at, we say so up front.