Seed → Series A. Built right.
For founders building AI-native companies, raising their first institutional round, and trying to figure out what their category actually is. The work that sets up everything that comes later.
Founder questions, honestly answered.
The questions that come up on every early-stage call. We don't pretend to have universal answers — but we have a view.
Most teams ask three rounds too early or one round too late. The right time isn't a metric — it's the moment your story compounds with capital. We'll tell you which it is.
Probably not yet. Most pre-Series A AI companies sound like four others in the same deck. We do the work to find the one sentence that's true and only true of you.
Pricing in early AI is more pricing-the-future than pricing-the-product. We take a position on what the market will pay for in eighteen months, not what your closest analog charges today.
Architecture, eval harness, cost model under scale. We've sat on the diligence side. We'll tell you which of your seams are visible to a buyer's CTO.
Same four mandates. Different weights.
At early-stage, strategic and fundraise carry the engagement. M&A is later-stage thinking, but worth knowing how the eventual buyer thinks now.
Early-stage call, no pitch deck.
Thirty minutes, confidential. Bring a deck if you have one — but we'd rather hear what you actually think before reading what you wrote.
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