Fundraising narrative
A founder/indie-hacker skills pack for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI: market research, competitor analysis, outcome-based pricing, landing-page copy, MVP spec, cold outreach, growth experiments and fundraising narrative.
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Crafts the pitch narrative — problem, insight, why-now, solution, traction, market, and ask — for a pre-seed/seed AI startup. Trigger on "help me pitch", "pitch deck narrative", "fundraising story", "why now slide", "seed pitch", or "how do I tell my startup's story to investors".
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When to use
When a founder is preparing to raise pre-seed/seed and needs a tight, investor-grade narrative arc — for a deck, a memo, or a verbal pitch.
Inputs to gather
- The problem, ICP, and what's broken about today's solutions.
- The founder's non-obvious insight / unfair advantage (why YOU, why now).
- Any traction: revenue, pilots, waitlist, design partners, growth rate.
- The raise amount, the milestones it funds, and rough use of funds.
Process
- Open on the problem — visceral, specific, in the customer's world (not "the market is huge").
- State the insight — the contrarian thing you believe that others don't; this is the spine of the pitch.
- Why now — the shift that makes this possible today (model capability, cost curve, regulation, behavior change). Investors fund timing.
- Solution — how it works in one breath, framed as the inevitable answer to the insight.
- Moat — be explicit: proprietary data, vertical depth, workflow lock-in, network effects, or regulatory edge. Pass the test: "if OpenAI/Anthropic shipped this tomorrow, what's left?" A thin wrapper won't clear seed bar in 2026.
- Traction — the steepest true line you have (revenue, design partners, retention, NRR). For vertical AI, outcome-based revenue + NRR 120-150% is a strong signal.
- Market — bottom-up sizing, then the wedge → expansion path.
- The ask — amount, the 2-3 milestones it buys, and the metric that earns the next round.
Output
- One-line positioning ("We help [ICP] achieve [outcome] via [insight]").
- Narrative arc: Problem → Insight → Why Now → Solution → Moat → Traction → Market → Ask, one tight paragraph or slide line each.
- The ask with milestones and use of funds.
- 3 anticipated hard questions + crisp answers (moat, defensibility, why-you).
Quality bar & pitfalls
- Good = the insight and "why now" are memorable enough that an investor repeats them to a partner.
- Traction speaks louder than vision at seed — lead with the steepest real number you have.
- Avoid: feature-first pitches; vague "$X0B TAM" with no wedge; hand-waving the moat; a "why now" that was equally true three years ago.