Fundraising narrative & deck studio

VCs don’t fund decks. They fund stories.

Score your pitch deck free in about two minutes, through the eyes of the exact kind of investor you’re pitching. Then build the version that gets you funded.

Free. No signup to see your score. Your deck stays private. We never share it or use it to train AI.

100+ decks scored$50M+ raised by founders we’ve worked withNYC operator since 2012Multi-exit founder

Your deck isn’t scored against a rubric. It’s read the way your investor reads it.

Every investor reads your deck through their own lens: their thesis, their bar, the questions they’ve asked a hundred times. A generic score can’t see any of that. That’s why we built Go Beyond Lens: it reads your deck the way the specific investor you’re pitching would, and tells you where you’d lose them.

See your deck the way an investor does.

Step 1

Upload your deck.

Drop in your PDF and pick who you’re raising from. There are 18 investor lenses, from generalist VC to climate to impact.

Step 2

Get scored through their lens.

You get slide-by-slide scores, an overall verdict, and the exact questions that investor would fire back.

Step 3

Get the playbook to fix it.

You see where you’re losing them, what to cut, and what to lead with. These are the moves that turn a maybe into a meeting.

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18 lenses. One that matters. The one you’re pitching.

A SaaS investor screens for compounding retention. A climate investor screens for cost-parity without subsidy. A defense investor screens for whether you’ll survive the procurement cycle. Score your deck through the lens that’s actually in the room, and fix the things that specific partner would catch instead of a generic checklist. It’s why we named the tool Lens.

When the score isn’t enough, we build the story with you.

The score shows you the gap. The studio closes it. We start from what you already have and rebuild the narrative: the order, the framing, the one number that should lead. It’s the same work that’s gone into $50M+ in raises. This isn’t AI polish. It’s judgment from someone who’s raised and exited.

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Who’s behind this.

Go Beyond is led by an NYC operator who’s been building and funding companies since 2012, with multiple exits, $50M+ raised, and years on the other side of the table coaching founders through their raises. We take on a handful of founders a year and turn down most inbound, because the studio work is hands-on.

$50M+raised
6 to 8founders taken on per year
80%+of inbound respectfully declined

VCs don’t fund decks. They fund stories.

See yours the way an investor will. Free, in about two minutes.

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