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
- Pitch Deck Audit Kit
- Round Logic Kit
- Investor Outreach Kit
- Follow-up action memo
Book your session via Calendly right after purchase. Reschedule up to 24h before the call.
This 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
What gets reviewed in the session
- Opening narrative and category clarity
- Problem, solution, market, traction, business model, team, financials, and ask
- Investor-fit logic: which investor types your deck is built for
- Slide order and story flow: whether the narrative builds conviction in the right sequence
- Valuation and raise narrative
- Use of funds and milestone credibility
- The biggest reasons an investor may pass, before they do
What you leave with
- A clear verdict on deck readiness
- Top 5 rewrite priorities
- Investor-fit direction
- Stronger ask and use-of-funds logic
- A follow-up action memo sent within 48 hours
- 12 months Premium access for continued re-analysis
- All three self-serve kits for reference and rebuilding
How the Intensive works
- 1
Purchase
Complete checkout. Your 12 months of Premium access activates immediately and all three self-serve kits land in your inbox.
- 2
Book your session
The confirmation page and your welcome email both carry the Calendly link. Pick a time that works; Sebastian reviews your deck and Premium analysis before the call.
- 3
The live session
60 minutes on your narrative, investor logic, positioning, and highest-risk slides. Direct, prioritized, and specific to your raise.
- 4
Act on it
You receive a follow-up action memo within 48 hours. Rewrite the priority slides, then re-run the Deckmetric analysis with your Premium access.
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.
About Sebastian Scheplitz
Founder & CEO, Shepard&Young
Sebastian Scheplitz is a Revenue Architect and Fractional CMO/CEO with 25+ years of experience across iGaming, SaaS, Fintech, and Media. Two company exits. Multiple fundraising cycles on both sides of the table.
He built the Shepard&Young CVM framework that powers Deckmetric's scoring engine. The Investor Readiness Intensive is direct access to the same judgment that built that framework.
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."
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
The Intensive is the only place where you get my judgment live, on your company, in real time. No framework survives contact with a specific cap table, a specific market, and a specific investor list; that is what the session is for.
Come with your deck and your raise plan. You will leave with a prioritised set of decisions, not a list of suggestions, and twelve months of Premium to pressure-test every revision after the call.
Sebastian Scheplitz
Founder, Deckmetric
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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