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We Built a Free Tool That Reads Your Deck the Way an Investor’s Triage Does

Upload your deck, pick your round, and sixty seconds later you get what investors give each other but rarely give you: the blunt read.

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Ruben Dominguez
Sep 26, 2026
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Every week, founders send me decks asking for the honest read. And every week I see the same pattern: five friendly people said “looks great, maybe tighten slide 12,” then forty investors said nothing at all.

The gap between those two reactions is a two-minute skim you never get to watch.

So we built the skim.

We call it the Deck Review. You upload a PDF or PPTX (or paste the text), pick the round you’re raising, and it returns the review nobody sends founders:

▫️ The extraction test: how much of your deck a two-minute skim, or the AI triage more funds run every month, can actually pull out. If the skim can’t find your ask, your ask doesn’t exist.

▫️ Seven scores calibrated to your round, because a seed deck judged by Series A standards is useless feedback, and most deck feedback makes exactly that mistake.

▫️ The blunt one-line read, the sentence a partner would actually say after the skim, in quotes, no cushioning.

▫️ The three sharpest fixes and the three questions this specific deck invites in the meeting, so you walk in with answers instead of surprises.

And this is what comes back a minute later, on a fictional seed deck:

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We call it the Deck Review. You upload a PDF or PPTX (or paste the text), pick the round you’re raising, and it returns the review nobody sends founders:

▫️ The extraction test: how much of your deck a two-minute skim, or the AI triage more funds run every month, can actually pull out. If the skim can’t find your ask, your ask doesn’t exist.

▫️ Seven scores calibrated to your round, because a seed deck judged by Series A standards is useless feedback, and most deck feedback makes exactly that mistake.

▫️ The blunt one-line read, the sentence a partner would actually say after the skim, in quotes, no cushioning.

▫️ The three sharpest fixes and the three questions this specific deck invites in the meeting, so you walk in with answers instead of surprises.

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