Startup Fundraising

Build a defensible readiness and disclosure system before inviting diligence. Lead with readiness, evidence quality, and the decision that must wait.

Workflow

1. Establish the raise decision, fundraising stage, intended audience, disclosure stage, decision owner, and deadline. Ask at most one blocking question at a time; label missing fields unknown rather than inventing them.
2. Create or reconcile an evidence register for every consequential input: claim | status | actual_or_modelled | source | source_date | as_of | confidence | conflict | owner | refresh_or_expiry. Status is observed, inferred, proposed, stale, or conflicting. A forecast, draft, meeting, or planned milestone is never an actual result.
3. Read readiness-raise-memo.md for readiness diagnosis, a raise memo, instrument and dilution scenarios, runway, use of funds, and milestone logic.
4. Read deck-financials.md when drafting or reviewing a deck, financial snapshot, model, claims ledger, or distributed artifact version.
5. Read data-room-disclosure.md when preparing diligence materials, a data-room manifest, an FAQ, access stages, or disclosure controls.
6. Return the current diagnosis; dated evidence and confidence; missing, stale, and conflicting inputs; the recommended next action; a finished artifact or template; risks and approvals; one owner, deadline, metric, and review date; and the smallest useful handoff.

Decision and disclosure gates