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Pre-fundraise health check.

Find the deal-breakers two months before your first pitch.

Inspector runs the same kind of analysis investors will run — across sales, finance, product, and ops — and tells you what to fix first.

6 min read
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Intermediate
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4 moves
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Updated weekly
01The situation

Why this exists.

Inspector runs the same kind of analysis investors will run — across sales, finance, product, and ops — and tells you what to fix first.

Today

A patchwork that breaks.

  • A shared spreadsheet nobody opens on time
  • Prompts copy-pasted into a chat window
  • A contractor who disappears for two weeks
  • Output that lands in a different shape every run
With Inspector

A workflow that ships.

  • One brief, one cadence, one place to read it
  • Every claim cited, every step reviewable
  • A finished artifact in your team’s format
  • Investor due diligence becomes the easy part, not the ambush.
02The playbook

Four moves.

Inspector runs each move with a preview attached — so you know what lands before you ever hit send. Skip freely once you know which parts carry the weight.

  1. 01Kickoff

    Describe your business to Inspector.

    Inspector starts with the brief and asks only for what's missing. No boilerplate intake form, no setup meeting.

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    Describe your business to Inspector.
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    Inspector is working
  2. 02Gather

    Connect the financials and core metrics.

    Sources are pulled, cleaned, and cross-checked against prior runs — every claim carries a citation you can trace.

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    Source connected · connect the financials
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    First pass complete
    Source connected
  3. 03Reason

    Read the scored health report.

    The agent thinks out loud where it matters — trade-offs named, assumptions surfaced, judgments explained.

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    01Pre-fundraise · pre fundraise0.94
    02Health · pre fundraise0.82
    03Check · pre fundraise0.67
  4. 04Draft

    Fix the gaps before investors ever spot them.

    A first draft lands in the format your team already uses. You edit the last 10%, not the first 90%.

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    Inspector → your team
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    Pre-fundraise health check
    Investor due diligence becomes the easy part, not the ambush.
    Open briefing
03Prompts to copy

Paste these into Inspector.

Three prompts — a kickoff, a full run, and a packaging pass. Copy the one that matches the phase you're in. Rewrite any detail to fit your business.

prompt-01·Kick it off
You are Inspector. I want to pre-fundraise health check — Inspector runs the same kind of analysis investors will run — across sales, finance, product, and ops — and tells you what to fix first. My goal: Investor due diligence becomes the easy part, not the ambush. Walk me through the first move and tell me what you need from me.
prompt-02·Run it in one shot
Run the full playbook end-to-end: Describe your business to Inspector. Connect the financials and core metrics. Read the scored health report. Fix the gaps before investors ever spot them. Ask before skipping any step. Show work as you go.
prompt-03·Package the output
Deliver the output as a single brief I can share with the team — lead with "2-month head start", then the receipts. Call out anything that changed assumptions mid-run.
04What you need

Inputs in, outputs out.

Inspector runs on the inputs on the left and hands back the artifacts on the right. Skip any input — the agent will ask for it the first time it needs it.

What it takes in
  • One source of truth (CSV, CRM, or warehouse)
  • A one-paragraph brief on the goal
  • The KPI you want to move
What it hands back
  • A scored, cited brief you can forward
  • A structured file for downstream automation
  • An alert when anything material changes
05What lands on your team

A finished artifact, not a todo list.

Every run ends the same way — a packaged brief in the channel your team already reads. Here's a preview of what shows up.

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Inspectorbot · weekly
Pre-fundraise health check — ready for review

Here's the brief for this week. I ran the playbook end-to-end, flagged anything that shifted against last run, and packaged the output for Slack and the shared drive.

  • Describe your business to Inspector.
  • Connect the financials and core metrics.
  • Read the scored health report.
  • Fix the gaps before investors ever spot them.
Open briefingbriefing.pdf · sheet.csv · slides.key
What moved
2-month head start
Investor due diligence becomes the easy part, not the ambush.
06Common pitfalls

Where teams stall.

Three ways we see this go sideways — and how to avoid each one.

Pitfall 01

Pointing the agent at stale or half-connected data. Clean the source once, compound every run after.

Pitfall 02

Running it once and forgetting. Put it on a weekly cadence so the numbers actually move.

Pitfall 03

Skipping the first review. Check the first run by hand — trust compounds from there.

07Questions

Before you start.

Usually one source is enough to see value. Inspector can run on a CSV paste for the first pass; connect the CRM, the data warehouse, or the tool of record once you want it to run on its own.

Most teams put this on a weekly cadence. That's the sweet spot between "too noisy to read" and "too stale to act on". Adjust once you see how the numbers behave.

Whoever owns the downstream action. Inspector hands back a finished result — the value is in somebody actually reading it and shipping the decision the same day.

It usually isn't. The first pass is calibration — tell Inspector what was off, rerun, and the second is close. By the fourth it reads like a teammate.

Your move

Run it today.

Forty minutes to set up. 2-month head start on the other side. Inspector does the work.