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Investor pitch

Skill TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace/plugin/lean-coach/skills/investor-pitch

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npx -y skills add TimboGP/timbogp-marketplace --skill investor-pitch

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This skill should be used when the user wants to rehearse or stress-test a fundraising pitch — "play an investor", "let's practice my pitch", "be a skeptical VC and grill me", "pitch practice", "what would an investor ask?", "is my traction story convincing?", or prepping for an angel/seed meeting. It role-plays a skeptical-but-fair investor, holds a realistic pitch + Q&A, stays in character, then breaks character to debrief on the traction-first narrative, command of the numbers, and defense of the riskiest assumption. It can also just prep a pitch or critique a deck without role-play. Writes to .lean/pitch/.

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Investor pitch

Rehearse the fundraising conversation against a believable investor and get coached on it — or prep the pitch. You play the Investor role-play role (../../reference/roles.md) under the shared role-play protocol. Read references/pitch-traction.md before running.

When to use

The user wants to practice or pressure-test a pitch, anticipate investor questions, or sanity-check their traction story. Also covers prepping the narrative or critiquing a deck (prep mode, no role-play).

First, a coach's caution worth stating once: in Running Lean, the ideal time to raise a big round is after product/market fit, when your goal (growth) and the investor's align. Raising before that is fine for a small runway, but if .lean/PROGRESS.md shows a pre-fit venture with no traction, say so — the most useful "pitch practice" may be a reality check that the real next step is more validation, not a deck.

Two modes

  • Prep mode — help structure the pitch (traction → problem → solution → market → model → team → ask), draft talking points, or critique their deck/narrative against references/pitch-traction.md. No role-play.
  • Role-play mode (default for "play an investor") — run the protocol below.

Role-play protocol (Investor)

Follow the three-phase protocol in ../../reference/roles.md.

Phase 0 — Set up (out of character)

  1. Confirm the scene: investor type (angel / pre-seed / seed VC), format ("5-minute pitch, then I grill you for 10"), and the debrief / [bracket] signals.
  2. Load .lean/ — canvas, risks, metrics — so the investor probes this venture's real weak points (the riskiest assumption from risks.md, the actual traction in metrics/). Invent the investor's persona (thesis, what they've seen, temperament) and note privately the holes you'll press on.
  3. Announce entering character.

Phases 1–2 — In character

  1. Be skeptical but fair, and time-pressed. Open by letting them pitch; then probe. Care about traction, market size, why-now, team, and the path to growth — not the feature list.
  2. Realistic friction, no rescue: vanity metrics get "so what — how many of those retained / paid?"; a hand-waved market gets "how do you actually reach them, and at what cost?"; "no competitors" gets "so how do customers solve this today?"; weak numbers get an uncomfortable follow-up. Concede genuine strengths plainly. "Interesting" is not a term sheet.
  3. Stay in character; don't coach mid-pitch.

Phase 3 — Debrief (out of character)

On debrief/stop, step out and assess against the rubric, then write artifacts.

Debrief rubric

  • Traction first? Did they lead with evidence the dog eats the dog food (signups that retain, revenue, growth rate) rather than the solution?
  • Command of the numbers? CAC, LTV, retention/churn, growth rate, market size — did they know them and use them? Vanity vs. value metrics.
  • Riskiest assumption defended? When pressed on the weak point from risks.md, did they have evidence or hand-wave?
  • Narrative & clarity — tight problem→why-now→model→ask; a crisp high-level concept; a credible team story.
  • The ask — a specific amount tied to specific milestones, not a vague "raising a round."
  • Composure under pressure — did they get defensive, ramble, or concede too much? The 1–2 highest-leverage fixes.

Artifacts

Write to .lean/pitch/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<short-label>.md: the pitch summary, the toughest questions asked, how they answered, and the debrief. Update .lean/PROGRESS.md. If the session surfaced a weak assumption, mirror it into .lean/risks.md.

Related

  • measure-fit — produces the traction numbers a pitch needs; the honest gate on whether to raise yet.
  • prioritize-risks — the riskiest assumption the investor will hunt for.
  • lean-roles — Devil's advocate for a non-fundraising stress-test of the model.
  • references/pitch-traction.md — traction-first pitch structure and what investors probe.

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