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The Seed Readiness Check · free · five minutes

Capital follows evidence.

You are about to ask someone for money. Find out what they will find first.

Why you are here. Your deck tells your story. An investor reads it in four minutes, and then looks for what is not in it: who owns the company, whether your numbers match the bank, who makes your product, what one bottle earns after everyone is paid. That is where a raise is won or lost. Not in the story. In what can be checked.

Why answer these fifteen questions. Each one is something an investor will ask, or find, before they write a check. Answer them today, while nobody is watching, and you will know what you have and what you do not, before it costs you a meeting. At the end you get a score and the three things to build first. Five minutes. No spreadsheet needed.

15 questions~5 minutesInstant score, and the three things to fix first

For consumer-product founders raising a first outside round. Answer for what exists today, not what you could pull together by Friday. This is not a test of you. It is a count of what is on paper.

Illustration: a founder at a drafting table beside a clipboard listing the twelve categories of evidence in the Seed File.
The twelve things an investor checks. This is what sits behind the deck.
Fifteen questions. Three answers each.

Do you have it?

Be honest; nobody sees this but you. No means it does not exist, or you could not hand it to a stranger. Half means it exists, but you would want a week to clean it up before anyone saw it. Have means someone could open it tonight and check it without calling you.

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Two fields, and it is yours.

Your score, how an investor will read you today, your three weakest pages and what each one costs you in the room, and what to do next.

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Seed readiness ·
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How the investor will read you

Build these three first

Your three weakest answers, in the order to fix them. Each one is a question an investor will ask, and the page that answers it before they do.

What to do with this

Four ways forward. Pick the one that fits your gap.

The free check told you what is missing. The Review is me reading your file the way an investor will and helping you fix it. The Rebuild is the two of us building the deck and the file together. The book is for doing it yourself.

01 · Done

The free check

Free

Your score, your three weakest pages, and how an investor will read you today. Keep it. It is your before picture.

02 · The no-brainer

The Seed File™ Review

$1,750 flat

You send the deck and the file as they stand. Inside five business days you get a written read: all fifteen lines scored from the evidence, the ten questions an investor will ask with the fix for each, your round put through a real price range, and a punch list in the order to build it. Then two working sessions, two weeks apart. The first to decide what you fix. The second to read what you fixed and rehearse the price conversation.

Outcome
every reason an investor would pass, found and fixed before the first meeting.
Odds
a file they can check instead of believe. Belief gets a meeting. Verification gets a wire.
Time
the written read in five business days; the whole thing in four weeks.
Cost
$1,750, flat. About a tenth of one percent of a $1.5M raise.
  • Mutual NDA both directions before I open anything; engagement terms accepted at checkout
  • No equity, no success fee, no introductions for sale
  • The Seed File™ book and the fifteen-template workbook included
  • Not a pitch to CLMB Ventures. It buys my work, not my check
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03 · Build it together

The Seed File™ Rebuild

$11,000

When you want the deck rebuilt from the ground up, with a partner in the room. You bring what you have: bank statements, the cap table and every SAFE, the co-packer and distributor paper, the sales report, the old deck. We rebuild the deck slide by slide and the file behind it at the same time, so every claim on a slide points at a page that proves it. Six weeks, a working session every week, your name on every page.

  • Offered after a Review, or by application if the raise is already open
  • Half at the start, half when the deck and the file are done
  • Two companies at a time
Apply by email →
If the Review is the better first step, I will say so.
04 · Do it yourself

The Seed File™ book and workbook

$399

Twenty-two chapters, one company walked from the first phone call to the wire in ten weeks, and fifteen live spreadsheet templates, one for every line you were just scored on. The arithmetic is built and checked. You put your numbers in. Included free with the Review.

  • The cap table, the SAFE stack at three caps, the cash plan, unit economics, sales per store, the price range
  • The ten-week calendar, dated from your start Monday
  • PDF and Excel, instant download
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Scalewrights is an advisory firm, not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, placement agent, or law or accounting firm. The check, the book, the review, and the build are educational and directional guidance, not an offer, a valuation, or investment advice, and create no obligation for CLMB Ventures or any investor to consider or fund any company. Raising capital involves securities laws — engage qualified counsel before offering or selling any instrument.