Guides
Pitch red-teaming & investor diligence
Practical playbooks for founders who would rather hear the brutal question in rehearsal than in a partner meeting. Written for Dialectic — the adversarial pitch red-teamer.
Sample teardown: ChatGPT vs a partner (ScribeAI)
Fragility 78, HubSpot punch, amateur trap, and the Power Pivot script.
Sample teardown: a board memo meets the Forensic CFO (Nexus)
Fragility 86, the supplier-margin punch, and the tiered-fee Power Pivot.
The Sand Hill Road Pitch Standard (Tier-1 US VCs)
What Tier-1 Silicon Valley VCs expect, and how to survive their diligence.
The Last-Minute VC Pitch Checklist (24 Hours Out)
A 24-hour rapid checklist for the anxiety window before a partner meeting.
AI Mock VC Interview & Pitch Rehearsal Simulator
Practice your pitch defense against an adversarial AI simulator.
Fragility Index Explained: Pitch Risk Scoring From 0–100
How the 0–100 score is built from axioms and the 5-axis radar, and what 78 vs 86 means.
Pitch Deck Red-Team: Stress-Test Before Investors Do
Axiom extraction, fragility scoring, and the 5 axes partners actually probe.
VC Diligence Questions That Kill Seed Rounds
The lethal questions behind polite passes — and the amateur trap answers to avoid.
Why ChatGPT Won't Critique Your Pitch Like Investors Will
RLHF makes models agreeable. Diligence is adversarial. Here’s the gap.
Boardroom Rehearsal: Practice Verbal Defense Under Pressure
How to rehearse answers so unit economics and moat claims survive the room.
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