For founders raising pre-seed & seed
Know if your deck is ready before an investor does.
Upload your pitch deck. Get a slide-by-slide narrative rewrite and a readiness read — so you know exactly what an investor will see, and what to fix first.
Free·about 2 minutes·just your email to start
Graded against a real investor bar — the criteria that decide whether a deck earns the next meeting, not a vanity score.
Upload a PDF and get your read back in about two minutes. No call, no form to schedule.
Narrative rewrites are powered by Storied AI. The readiness scoring is a separate, in-house engine.
How it works
Three steps, one upload.
No sales call. No waiting on a partner's calendar.
Upload your deck
Sign in with your email and drop in a PDF. We read the slides, not just the words — order, arc, and what each one is trying to earn.
We read it against the rubric
Storied AI rewrites the narrative slide by slide while a proprietary rubric scores readiness across six categories.
Get your read
A readiness read, a rewritten story you can ship, and the three moves that most improve the raise.
The narrative read
Reads like an investor. Rewrites like a storyteller.
Every slide comes back with what it says now and a sharper version to say instead — anchored to where it sits in the investor arc and what it needs to earn. You get the rewrite, not just the critique.
See a full sample read →The readiness read
Every signal comes with the reason behind it.
Green, yellow, red across the criteria investors weigh — but never just a color. Each one shows the evidence we found and the exact gap to close, so a yellow isn't a mystery. It's a to-do.
See how a read is scored →Quantified energy loss is concrete and validated by early customers.
Revenue growth is shown but retention is not broken out.
Gap — Add NRR and gross retention by cohort.
No discussion of data advantage or switching costs.
Gap — Articulate why the detection models compound with usage.
What we grade
The rubric, in the open.
Six categories, transparent by design. We'll tell you exactly what a partner is scanning for — the weighting behind the score stays ours.
Founders & Team
Who is building this, why them, and how fast they move.
Market
How big, how reachable, and whether you've sized it bottom-up.
Problem & Demand
Whether the pain is urgent, expensive, and someone is pulling.
Product & Moat
What you've built, and why the advantage compounds over time.
Commercial
Traction, retention, and the shape of the business model.
Competition & the Deal
Where you sit, and whether the round is priceable.
Who's behind this
Built by Veridical Ventures.
We back pre-seed and seed founders. Narrative Ready is the tool we wished founders had before they walked into the room — so we built it, and made it free.
Here's the honest version
We're a venture fund. Here's the deal.
- It's free because well-told decks are how we find companies to back.
- Your report is identical whether or not you're open to us — the value is never conditional.
- When you're open to it, our investment team may see your deck as potential deal flow. That's the trade, stated plainly.
- We never sell your deck, share it outside Veridical, or use it to train public models.
- Not raising, or not interested in us? Keep it a private, analysis-only read.
FAQ
The questions founders actually ask.
Is it really free?+
Yes. There's no paywall and no trial. We run a fund; strong decks are how we find companies to back, so the read is free to you.
Do you keep my deck?+
We keep your deck and its parsed text for 30 days so you can revisit your report, then delete both. We never sell it or use it to train public models.
Will you contact me?+
Only if you tell us you're open to it. The readiness read comes back either way — reaching out is opt-in, not a condition of using the tool.
What is the readiness read based on?+
A proprietary rubric across six categories — the same bar our partners apply when a deck reaches us. We're transparent about the categories; the weighting is ours.
Is my idea safe with you?+
Your deck stays inside Veridical, encrypted, and is never shared externally. If you'd rather keep it a private analysis-only read, that's a single choice at upload.
Who is Storied AI?+
Our narrative-generation partner. Storied AI powers the slide-by-slide rewrite; the readiness scoring is ours, and runs separately.
Ready when you are
See what a partner sees — before the meeting.
Upload your deck and get your readiness read in about two minutes. Free, and yours to keep.