POTENTIAReading a pitch deck like a diligence engine does
Most people read a pitch deck for the pitch — the story, the market size, the traction. A useful second pass reads the same deck for what it reveals about the team that made it: what's emphasized, what's conspicuously absent, and whether the narrative holds together slide to slide.
A team slide with vague titles instead of specific roles is worth noting. A traction slide with numbers that don't share a consistent time frame is worth noting. A competitive-landscape slide that omits an obvious, well-known competitor is worth noting. None of these are disqualifying on their own — they're prompts for the next question in a live conversation, not verdicts.
This is effectively what an automated pitch-deck read does at a mechanical level (feeding into Founder-Market Fit and Semantic Entropy) — the difference is consistency: it checks the same things, the same way, on deck one and deck one hundred.
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