Frequently asked questions
Everything founders ask us before uploading their deck.
What is investor readiness?
Investor readiness is how well a company's capital raise answers the questions an investor will ask at its stage — problem, market, traction, team, competition and the financial story — before the first meeting. GoPresent measures it as a Capital Readiness Score out of 100, backed by a full Gap Analysis Report, so founders can see their raise the way an investor will assess it.
What is AI deal screening?
AI deal screening is a first-pass review of inbound deal flow: reading what a company claims, checking it against the evidence available, and flagging the gaps before a partner spends time on it. GoPresent Quick Screen does this from a company's website and an optional pitch deck. Set your investment thesis and each screen also scores apparent mandate fit from 0 to 100 — an alignment signal, never a verified claim.
How secure is my deck?
Founder materials stay inside a private workspace with controlled access, auditability, and clear organisational boundaries across intake, review, generation, and export. Each workspace is isolated at the database layer through row-level tenant isolation, so one client's decks, analyses, and generated outputs are not visible to another. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and uploads, reviews, and generated decks are handled under the controlled-handling and audit approach described on our security page. Where a consultant works on your behalf, that access follows the same role-based rules that govern the rest of the workspace. The report you receive within minutes is produced inside the same workspace your deck was uploaded to.
Do you replace advisors or consultants?
No. GoPresent makes fundraising work more systematic. It can stand alone for founder reviews or sit alongside existing advisory and investor workflows. The platform complements the people already helping you rather than replacing them: a gap analysis gives an advisor a structured starting point — a 0-100 Capital Readiness Score across every investor dimension — instead of a first read from scratch. Consultants can also run GoPresent on behalf of their clients: uploading materials, running analyses, and preparing the workspace so the founder logs in to work that is already organised. In practice, advisors use the findings to focus their sessions on the gaps that matter most, while the founder uses the platform between meetings to practise investor Q&A and iterate on the deck.
Can investors use this on inbound deals?
Yes. Early-access Scout workspaces can run Quick Screen to standardise a first-pass review of inbound opportunities. A public company website URL is required and a PDF pitch deck is optional; the current screen uses one scrape of that submitted website and returns maturity signals, risk flags, evidence gaps, a verdict, and a copyable AI-generated IC-memo draft in 2–5 minutes, with one free screen per month to start. Review and validate the draft, then edit it in your own workflow after copying. Deal Sourcing, Full Due Diligence and Portfolio Monitor are planned and are not yet available.
What file formats do you support?
We currently support PDF pitch decks up to 10 MB. Upload your deck and we extract the content for analysis, scoring, and deck generation. That single extraction feeds the whole workflow: the same content drives your Capital Readiness Score, the gap analysis across every investor dimension, and — on Raise Ready — the AI-revised deck, so there is no need to re-submit materials at each stage. If your deck lives in another tool, export it to PDF before uploading; the analysis works from the text of your slides. At upload you can also add context about your raise — stage, target amount, and key metrics — which sharpens the findings, and results arrive within minutes.
How long does analysis take?
Fast enough for live fundraising. The goal is to get founders and teams from a raw deck to a useful gap analysis in one focused session. Your free investor report — including your Capital Readiness Score and top gaps — arrives in minutes. Behind that turnaround is a stage-adaptive rubric — a pre-seed deck is weighted toward problem clarity and founder-market fit, a Series A deck toward traction and unit economics, a Series B deck toward growth and defensibility, because the questions investors ask change with the round — scored the way a partner scores them. That means you can upload a raw deck, read the findings, and act on the prioritised fixes before your next investor meeting rather than after it. Re-analysis after you revise the deck works the same way, so the score you track over time always reflects your latest version.
Can I white-label this for my fund or accelerator?
White-label and higher-touch workflow support are handled selectively. If that is the need, the right next step is a conversation so we can scope the operating model properly. The standard Scout offering already covers much of what funds and accelerators ask for — standardised intake, a consistent scoring standard across every deal, and team access for up to 5 members — so the conversation usually starts by checking whether the platform as it stands fits your workflow. Where it genuinely does not, arrangements are scoped case by case around how your team runs reviews, who needs access, and how reports are shared. Use the enquiry option on the pricing page to brief us and we will come back with a concrete proposal rather than a generic package.
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