Pitch Deck Score
Rate your deck across 10 dimensions VCs actually score on. Get a 0-100 investor-readiness score, a clear verdict, and a prioritized list of which slides to fix first.
Question 1. How sharp is your problem slide?
One concrete pain, named user, and quantified frequency or cost.
Question 2. How clear is the connection between problem and solution?
A VC should explain it back to you within 30 seconds.
Question 3. How credible is your TAM SAM SOM?
Bottom-up beats top-down. Cite sources, show math.
Question 4. What evidence of demand are you showing?
Revenue beats users, users beat signups, signups beat opinions.
Question 5. Is your business model and unit economics articulated?
Show pricing, ACV, CAC payback or path to one.
Question 6. How honest is your competition slide?
Real competitors, real differentiation, no magic quadrant where you sit alone in the top right.
Question 7. How strong is the team slide?
Domain expertise, prior outcomes, complementary skills.
Question 8. Is your GTM motion specific and testable?
One primary channel, expected CAC, time to first revenue.
Question 9. How clear and reasonable is the ask?
Amount, runway, milestones to next round.
Question 10. How does the deck read visually and structurally?
Slide count, density, narrative arc, fonts, charts.
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Frequently asked questions
What makes a pitch deck score in the top tier?+
Top-scoring decks tell one specific story across 10 to 15 slides: a named user with a quantified pain, a clear solution that solves it, evidence that customers actually buy or use it, unit economics that suggest the business compounds, and a team uniquely suited to win. The lowest-scoring decks try to do all of that but in 30 slides, with generic market sizing, no traction, and a 2x2 chart where the founders sit alone in the top right. The score does not predict whether you raise. It predicts whether VCs will spend a second meeting on you.
How many slides should my pitch deck have?+
Twelve give or take three. The structure most successful seed and Series A decks use: cover, problem, solution, demo or product, market, traction, business model, competition, go-to-market, team, financials, ask. Each slide carries exactly one idea. Anything more is usually a sign you have not made the editorial cuts yet, and the deck will be skimmed rather than read.
What is the difference between a teaser deck and a full pitch deck?+
A teaser deck is 5 to 8 slides sent over email to get a meeting. Its job is to make a VC say "let me get on a call." A full pitch deck is 10 to 15 slides walked through live in a 30-minute meeting. Its job is to advance to a partner meeting or send a follow-up data room. Mixing them is a common mistake: a teaser with 15 slides reads as a wall of text by email, and a full deck with 5 slides leaves obvious questions on the table during a live pitch.
Do I need traction to raise a seed round?+
Not always, but the bar moves with conviction in the team and category. Repeat founders or deep technical founders in hot AI categories can still raise on a thesis. First-time founders in mature categories almost always need either a working product with usage, signed design partners, or revenue. The current rule of thumb in 2026: $100K to $500K ARR or 10 design partners with paid pilots is the median seed signal. Below that, you are pitching the team and the wedge, not the business yet.
How should I handle the competition slide?+
Name your top three direct competitors and one or two adjacent ones. State, on two or three honest axes, why you win. Examples: speed, depth in a niche, integration with a specific ecosystem, pricing model. The single worst pattern is the 2x2 chart where you happen to occupy the unique top-right quadrant. Every VC has seen that chart and discounts it. Honest differentiation builds more trust than fake supremacy.
What should I put on the team slide?+
Three things per founder: the rare credential or experience that makes you uniquely fit to win this market, the role you cover, and (when relevant) the prior outcome or notable employer. Do not list every founder hobby and side project. Cover gaps explicitly: if you have no go-to-market founder, name the first hire and the search status. Investors read this slide for risk, not pedigree.
Should I share my deck before the meeting or after?+
For warm intros, share after the first call so you control the narrative live. For cold outreach, share a teaser deck up front because the VC needs a reason to take the meeting. Send the full deck within 24 hours of every meeting along with a 2 to 4 sentence email summarizing the ask. Decks that get circulated internally without you in the room do most of your work, so they need to read clearly without your voiceover.
How long should my deck take to read?+
Five to seven minutes for a partner skimming. Ten to fifteen minutes if they are taking notes. If a VC needs more than 15 minutes to get through your deck, you have not made the cuts yet. The fastest way to test: send the deck to a smart friend in a non-overlapping industry and ask them to summarize your business in two sentences after one read. If they cannot, the deck is not done.