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The 375 Prompt Book for Fundraising

The research and outreach layer of a raise, finding investors, vetting fit, writing the outreach, rebuilt as 375 copy-paste prompts.

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Ruben Dominguez
Aug 01, 2026
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A placement agent charges 5% of the round for warm intros. An analyst spends two weeks building the target list. For years that layer was the slow, expensive part of a raise, and having it was the edge.

We rebuilt the entire layer as 375 prompts across eight files. Paste one into Claude, fill in the brackets, and the analyst’s two weeks happen in an afternoon.

Which is exactly why fundraising is about to get harder, not easier.

When the research layer was expensive, having it was the advantage. Now every founder in your batch generates the same list, the same fit analysis, the same clean cold email, for the price of a prompt. The analysis just commoditized. What did not commoditize is the part the prompts cannot touch.

A prompt builds the target list. It cannot tell you which partner told another founder, over coffee last week, that they are full this quarter.

A prompt ranks funds by thesis fit. It cannot tell you their last two bets in your space went to zero and the partner is gun-shy.

A prompt writes a flawless cold email. It cannot tell you one warm intro from the right founder beats two hundred of them.

Every one of those is judgment, timing, or a relationship. None of it is in the book. All of it decides whether you close.

So here is the deal. You get the whole book, all 375 prompts. And we are honest about the 20% it does not solve, because that 20% is what closes the round.

375-prompt-book/                  replaces the analyst's two weeks
│
├── diagnostic-skills/            decide whether, when, and who to raise from
│   ├── raise-readiness.md            40 prompts · fundable now, or fix this first
│   ├── investor-mapping.md           50 prompts · build, tier, and right-size the list
│   ├── thesis-fit.md                 45 prompts · score each fund's real thesis fit
│   └── warm-path-mapping.md          35 prompts · find and rank the warm path in
│
└── execution-skills/             turn the list into booked calls and a closed round
    ├── outreach-sequencing.md        45 prompts · the multi-touch outreach cadence
    ├── personalized-hook.md          50 prompts · first lines that earn the reply
    ├── materials-prep.md             40 prompts · deck, memo, and data room
    └── pipeline-and-objection.md     70 prompts · track, handle objections, close

What You Get With Premium

The 375 prompts are the thinking layer. Your subscription unlocks the verified data and playbooks underneath, the exact 20% that turns the prompts into a closed round:

📂 Investor Lists
10,000+ real check-writers, filterable by stage, sector, and geography. The verified list every prompt in the book assumes you already have.

📊 Financial Models
The runway, valuation, and SAFE math the diagnostic folder points at.

📈 Pitch Decks
The deck and memo bar the materials folder prepares you to hit.

🧰 Resources
Every playbook and template, one library.

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The 375 Prompt Book for Fundraising

What’s Inside

  1. The 375 Prompt Book

  2. The 80% is the book. The 20% is what closes.

  3. How to run the whole thing in a week

  4. The one thing 375 prompts cannot do

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