Get grilled by a skeptical angel investor
A pitch that sounds confident to a friend and one that survives a genuinely skeptical investor are tested very differently.
- Use it for
- Founders preparing to pitch who want real pressure-testing before the actual meeting.
Practicing a pitch alone, or with a supportive friend, doesn't surface the genuinely hard questions a real investor would ask — unit economics, customer acquisition cost, what stops a competitor from copying this in a month. This prompt interrogates the business model the way a skeptical, specific investor actually would, not a softball run-through.
When not to use this
If this is your first pass at articulating the business model at all, get it into words first through a normal explanation before inviting this level of pressure-testing.
Did this work?
You've answered genuinely hard, specific questions about your unit economics and defensibility out loud, not just anticipated what might be asked.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.