Get the deck critique your team is too polite to give you.
The Investor Readiness Intensive: a 60-minute live session with Sebastian Scheplitz to pressure-test your pitch narrative, investor logic, positioning, and highest-risk slides before a serious fundraising push.
Includes the complete Deckmetric Founder Stack:
- 60-minute live session with Sebastian
- Pre-session deck review
- Full Deckmetric Premium analysis
- 12 months Premium access$299/year value
- Pitch Deck Audit Kit$19 value
- Round Logic Kit$149 value
- Investor Outreach Kit$28 value
- Follow-up action memo
$495 of kits and Premium access included, before the live session itself.
Book your session via Calendly right after purchase. Reschedule up to 24h before the call.
I take a maximum of 10 of these per month. Not because scarcity converts. Because I read every deck before the call, and I do not delegate the work.
Why founders trust me with their raise
THE FOUNDER SEAT
I built two companies from zero, wrote my own investor narratives, pitched them, and negotiated both trade sales myself. I know what it sounds like when a room goes quiet at slide six.
THE ADVISOR SEAT
Since then I have reviewed 350+ pitch decks as an advisor and as an accelerator mentor at Ignyte and FRWRDX in Dubai. I am also the person investors in my network ask first: is this one worth my time.
WHAT I LEARNED
Investors do not fund the best businesses. They fund the businesses they can retell. Your deck does not have to explain your company. It has to give a partner a story that survives the Monday meeting without you in the room.
WHY DECKMETRIC EXISTS
I wrote that read into the CVM framework that scores every Deckmetric analysis. The Intensive is the only place you get it live, on your company, in real time.
Founder side twice. Sold twice. Advisor side across Europe, the Gulf and Asia.
Connect on LinkedInThis session is for founders who are ready to be told the hard thing.
- You are raising now or within 90 days
- You already have a deck draft
- You are preparing investor outreach, partner meetings, demo day, or a serious raise
- You need blunt strategic prioritization, not polite encouragement
- You want to know what to rewrite before more investors see the deck
✕Who it is not for
- ✕Founders with no deck yet
- ✕Founders who want guaranteed funding
- ✕Founders who want full slide design execution
- ✕Founders who want generic startup coaching
- ✕Founders unwilling to rewrite weak parts
Do not book this if
You want someone to tell you the deck is good.
The session is useful when you are willing to hear that the problem is the positioning, not the slides. Or the round, not the valuation. Or the market story, not the market. If you need validation, buy the analysis. If you need the answer, book the session.
What we pressure-test
- 01
Narrative.
Can a partner retell your company after one read?
Story map · Opening logic · Category clarity
The Italians have a word for it: sprezzatura. The studied ease that makes something difficult look inevitable. A fundable deck has it. Not polish. Inevitability. By slide three an investor should feel the conclusion coming and want to get there first.
- 02
Investor fit.
Are you pitching the right capital pool, or burning a quarter of runway on funds that were never going to say yes?
Fund type · Stage fit · Geography
The Japanese have a phrase for it: tekizai-tekisho. The right person in the right place. A seed narrative in a Series A room is not a weak pitch. It is a correctly built pitch standing in the wrong room, and no amount of polish fixes the address.
- 03
Validation.
Which of your claims survive diligence, and which ones die on the first Google search?
Traction framing · Proof in sequence · The numbers behind the story
Lawyers call it res ipsa loquitur. The thing speaks for itself. Real traction needs one line and a number. Weak traction needs a paragraph, and then a second paragraph explaining the first. If a claim needs defending on the slide, it will not survive the room.
- 04
The ask.
Would you defend your valuation across the table, or is it a wish with a number on it?
Valuation logic · Use of funds · Milestone credibility
Germans have a word for a number pulled out of the air: Hausnummer. A house number. Something that looks precise because it has digits in it. A valuation is either the output of a logic you can walk someone through, or it is a Hausnummer with a currency symbol.
- 05
The pass.
What are the three reasons a partner passes on you, named before an investor names them?
Risk ranking · Rewrite priorities
The French call it l'esprit de l'escalier. The perfect answer that arrives on the staircase, after you have left the room. Every founder has it after a pass. The work is moving that answer forward, into the deck, before the meeting where it would have mattered.
What you leave with is not a report. It is an order of operations.
- A clear verdict on deck readiness
- Your top five rewrite priorities, in order
- Investor-fit direction
- A stronger ask and use-of-funds logic
- The objection you need to prepare for
- A written action memo within 48 hours
- Twelve months of Premium and all three self-serve kits to keep iterating after the call
"Investors do not pass on companies. They pass on stories they can't retell."
How the Intensive works
- 1
Diagnose, before we speak.
I read your deck and your full Premium analysis before the call. The session opens on findings, not on introductions.
- 2
Pressure-test, minutes 0 to 25.
Your highest-risk slides and your investor logic, challenged the way a partner meeting will challenge them.
- 3
Position, minutes 25 to 45.
We rebuild the story: what an investor has to believe, and the order in which your deck has to earn it.
- 4
Prioritize, minutes 45 to 60.
Your top five rewrites, ranked. You leave with decisions, not with suggestions.
- 5
Act, within 48 hours.
The written action memo lands in your inbox. Twelve months of Premium give you six full analyses a month as you iterate.
NOT INCLUDED IN ANY OF THIS
- Financial modeling. I read the logic behind your numbers. I do not build the model.
- Legal and term sheet advice. I am not a lawyer.
- Slide design and copywriting execution.
- Guaranteed introductions. Guaranteed funding.
WHAT SKIPPING THIS COSTS
Walking into a high-stakes raise without a strategic teardown is the expensive option.
At this level the mistakes are not typos on slides. They are positioning, sequencing, and round-logic errors that cost the round itself.
The wrong story to the right fund
A strong company positioned badly reads like a weak company. Once the partnership forms that first impression, no deck revision in the same round unwinds it.
Months lost to a stalled process
A raise without a sequencing plan drifts: meetings spread out, urgency never builds, and the round that should close in weeks drags across a quarter of runway.
Terms you accept under pressure
Founders who enter negotiations without a prepared walk-away logic concede on valuation, board seats, or option pools. Those concessions compound at every later round.
Founders who booked a session
"Sebastian's session was worth 10x what I paid. He identified the exact weakness in my narrative that was causing investor hesitation. Two weeks later, I closed my seed round."
"I came in thinking my deck was 80% ready. Sebastian showed me it was actually 40% ready, and more importantly, showed me exactly how to fix it. Best investment I made in my fundraise."
"After months of 'interesting but not for us' responses, Sebastian helped me reframe my entire narrative. The very next pitch resulted in a term sheet."
Get the Investor Readiness Intensive
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60-minute live session · 12 months Premium · All three self-serve kits included
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where this can go after the Intensive
Most founders take the memo, rewrite, and re-score. That is the intended outcome. For a smaller number the session surfaces work that sits underneath the deck: pricing, revenue architecture, positioning, go to market. Two ways forward, in order of depth.
The Commercial Teardown
One concentrated engagement. I rebuild your commercial logic end to end: narrative, positioning, pricing, packaging, monetization. This runs through the Commercial Engine at Shepard&Young.
Fractional Executive
I join your team part-time as a hands-on commercial lead and work the plan with you. 2 to 3 companies at a time, and only founders who have been through the Intensive first.
Neither one gets pitched during your session. If I do not see a real fit, you will not hear about either.
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