The Series A Readiness Check · free · five minutes

The seed round bought your story. The Series A buys your numbers.

Why you are here. At seed, investors backed you and an idea. At the A, a fund is about to spend real money checking whether the last eighteen months happened the way your deck says they did. Their team will open your revenue against your bank statements, your repeat customers against a raw order export, your forecast against what you actually did. Where the two do not match, the price drops, or the meeting ends.

Why answer these fifteen questions. Each one is something a fund’s diligence team will ask for in the first two weeks. Answer them today, before the first partner meeting, and you will know which pages hold up and which will cost you the round. At the end you get a score and the three things to build first. Five minutes. Nothing to upload.

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

For consumer founders with real revenue, about eighteen months in, preparing a first round from a fund. Answer for what is on a page today, not what you could produce by Friday.

Illustration: a founder at a warehouse table before a mountain-lake window — an archive box of folders, a one-page roadmap propped against it, a small gold shot bottle, and a clipboard checklist of the twelve pages: revenue ledger, cohorts, unit economics, the 6×6 forecast, 13-week cash flow, cap table, obligations, the team, the boring folder, valuation bridge, use of funds, the roadmap. — Two files, one company. One proves what happened. One says what the money will do. The fund reads both.

Your read is ready

Two fields, and it is yours.

Your score, how a fund’s team will read you today, your three weakest pages and what each one costs you, and what to do next.

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Series A readiness ·

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How the fund will read you

Build these three first

Your three weakest answers, in the order to fix them. Each one is a question a fund’s team 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 deck and your file the way a fund’s team will, and helping you fix it. The Build is the two of us building the file and the deck together. The playbook is for doing it yourself.

01 · Done

The free check

Free

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

02 · The no-brainer

The Series A Review

$1,750 flat

You send the deck and the file as they stand. Inside five business days you get a written read: all twenty-one pages scored from the evidence, the questions a fund’s team will ask in the first two weeks with the fix for each, your valuation put through a real 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 a fund would pass, found and fixed before the first partner meeting.

Odds

a file they can check instead of believe. Belief gets a meeting. Verification gets a term sheet.

Time

the written read in five business days; the whole thing in four weeks.

Cost

$1,750, flat. Less than the legal bill for one term sheet you cannot defend.

Mutual NDA both directions before I open anything; engagement terms accepted at checkout
No equity, no success fee, no introductions for sale
The Series A Founder’s Playbook and its twenty-three templates included
Not a pitch to CLMB Ventures. It buys my work, not my check

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03 · Build it together

The Series A Build

$11,000

When you want the file and the deck rebuilt from the ground up, with a partner in the room. You bring what you have: the order export, the bank statements, the cap table, the contracts, the old deck, the team. We build the twenty-one pages and the fourteen-slide deck together, so every slide points at a page that proves it. Eight 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 file and the deck are done
Two companies at a time

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If the Review is the better first step, I will say so.

04 · Do it yourself

The Series A Founder’s Playbook and workbook

$399

Thirty-nine chapters, one company walked from the first investor email to the wire, and twenty-three live spreadsheet templates covering every line you were just scored on: the sales record, the repeat-customer table, the forecast beside real results, the thirteen-week cash view, the cap table through conversion, the valuation range, the use of funds, the one-page plan, the term-sheet map. Included free with the Review.

The worked example filled in, so you see each page done before you do yours
The twenty-four-week calendar, dated back from your first meeting
PDF and Excel, instant download

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Less than one hour of your counsel’s time.

Scalewrights is an advisory firm, not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, placement agent, or law or accounting firm. The check, the playbook, 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.