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Case 01 of 5FOUNDER

Raising a Series A in climate hardware

Ten minutes of writing on day zero, three names on day one, and a term sheet conversation by week four. She never opened a CRM.

A worked example, not a customer story. Every figure below describes what the product does today.

312opportunities scanned in one night
3names in the morning
0messages sent without her word
Day 0

She writes a want, not a profile

Ten minutes. Raising 6M EUR, Series A, climate hardware, Europe. Then one line of her own: not from anyone with a fossil portfolio. She connects her inbox, and it reads who she corresponds with, not what was said.

Night 1

The graph is walked at 3am her time

312 opportunities scanned. Portfolio conflicts removed. Candidates scored and then thinned, so that she does not wake up to eight partners from the same fund.

Day 1

Three names, each with its reason attached

Writes at pre-seed to A, covering your stage. Each carries a warm path where one exists. Three, not a feed. The fossil-portfolio line has already removed people she will never see.

Week 2

She asks for an intro, and a case opens

She writes the mandate for this deal in her own words. From then on, every match for that deal is ranked under that sentence.

Week 4

A deck comes back with questions

The returned document is read, and every fact pulled from it arrives with the sentence it came from. The deal moves from qualified to terms, and the picture held of that investor moves with it.

The mandate she wrote for this deal, in her own words

Get to a term sheet before the round closes, do not spend a meeting on anyone under 250k.

In the same week

What it did not do.

Four decisions in four weeks.

  • Made first contact with anyone. That level is defined in the code and deliberately unbuilt.
  • Read a message body. The Gmail scope is gmail.metadata, which cannot return one.
  • Sent anything under her name. Every outbound action waits for an explicit tap.
  • Shown her a fund her own exclusion line had already caught.
The thinking behind it

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