The hard questions, before you pitch.
Send us your deck. You get back an analyst’s verdict on where the raise stands, what convinces, what does not hold, and the questions an investor will open with. Three to five days.
One payment, no subscription. Prepared by the platform and an Auryn analyst.
- Subject
- Your pitch deck and the round you are raising
- Consideration
- Preflight €950, or Preflight Plus €1,450 with the return model
- Timeline
- Typically 3 to 5 business days
- If we cannot assess you
- Canceled and refunded in full
The same machinery, pointed at you.
A fund running on Auryn puts every deck that arrives through one pipeline. Preflight puts yours through that same pipeline, and through the same queue an investor’s deals sit in.
- The screen
- Your deck read against general institutional venture criteria for your stage, criterion by criterion, with the reasoning written out.
- The gaps
- What an investor needs in order to decide, and what your deck does not say. This part lands first.
- Exit scenarios
- The exit cases an investor would model, and what has to be true for each of them.
- Milestones
- What you have to prove between this round and the next one for the next one to be fundable.
- Diligence
- The checklist a fund works between a term sheet and a wire, and where your company would stall it.
- The analyst
- An Auryn analyst weighs every finding, keeps what an investor would act on, and prepares the document you receive. Nothing reaches your page on its own.
Not a valuation
Preflight does not value your company, and the report carries no score and no figure that could be read as what it is worth. Neither is what an investor decides on, and a number like that travels further than it deserves to, so the readiness verdict is written in words instead.
Preflight Plus adds a review meeting, and that is where the return model gets walked through with an analyst: the exit cases a fund would run on your round, and what they would imply for a fund backing you. Those are hypothetical scenarios, discussed out loud. They are not a price, not an offer, and not investment advice.
This is what you get back.
Where you stand, what is working, what could end the round, and what to change before the deck goes to an investor. The report opens on the verdict, because that is the part you came for.
Northwind Robotics
Warehouse automation · Seed · Gothenburg
March 2026 · General venture criteria, Seed · Prepared by Elin Roos
Readiness
Conditional
The team and the wedge hold up. What an investor cannot get from the deck today is whether the pilots renew, and that one question decides this round.
- Three paid pilots, none yet past its first renewal window
- The deck names no competitor, and two funded companies sell into the same dock door
- Hiring plan assumes a sales lead in month two of the raise
What is working
The wedge is narrow and the buyer is obvious
One workflow, one budget holder, and a payback the operations manager can sign off without finance. That is the shape investors fund at this stage.
A sample, written for a company that does not exist.
In the document
- 01Where you stand
- 02Your deck and your story
- 03How investors will assess the business
- 04The numbers investors will model
- 05What companies like yours sold for
- 06How your answers will land
- 07What to de-risk before and during the raise
- 08What investors will ask you to produce
A private report, and a PDF you can share with your co-founders.
Four steps, and one of them is yours.
Three to five business days is the normal shape of it. The clock is mostly in your hands: the report waits on your answers rather than the other way around.
- 01Day 0
You send the deck
Upload the PDF, tell us what you are raising, and pay. No account to create. A private link comes back by email, and everything after this happens there.
- 02Day 1 to 2
We check what your deck is missing
An analyst runs your deck against the sections an investor expects at your stage, then publishes what is missing or thin and what would close each one. Most of it is deck work you can do the same week, without us. If we cannot credibly assess your company, we cancel and refund instead.
You receive: The completeness check
- 03Day 2 to 4
We come back with questions
A short set of questions a deck cannot answer on its own, waiting on your page. Answer them in your own time. After 14 days of silence we finish the report anyway and mark what is still open.
- 04Day 3 to 5
The report is released
The analyst prepares the document from the finished analysis and releases it to your page as a web report and a PDF. On Preflight Plus this is when the review meeting gets booked.
You receive: The report
One payment, two depths.
Preflight and Preflight Plus run the same analysis. Plus adds the return model an investor would build on your round, argued through with the analyst.
Preflight
One-time · excl. VAT
The full analysis an investor would run on your deck. Prepared by the platform venture funds use, reviewed by an Auryn analyst.
- Every section an investor screens for, start to finish
- The gap read first, within a day or two
- The report as a web document and a PDF
- Follow-up questions asked and answered on your Preflight page
Preflight Plus
RecommendedOne-time · excl. VAT
The same analysis, taken a level deeper and finished in person.
- Everything in Preflight
- The return model an investor would build on your round, walked through live: the exit cases, the dilution path, and the probability-weighted return the platform computes for investors
- A second, deeper analyst pass over the same analysis
- A live meeting with the analyst who prepared it, to argue with any of it
If we cannot assess you, you do not pay.
The completeness check is where that call gets made, early, and by a person. If your deck does not give us enough to say anything an investor would act on, we cancel the order and refund it in full. We would rather return the money than send a document padded out to look like it was worth the price.
Your deck stays with the analysts working the review. It is not shown to investors and it is not used to train models.
Before you send us anything.
What to know before you send a deck to someone you have not met.
How is this different from an AI deck review?
The tool was not written for founders. It is the screening and analysis stack venture funds run on the decks that arrive in their inbox, with the same criteria, the same exit modelling and the same diligence checklist. And what reaches you is not raw output. An analyst reads the full analysis, decides what holds and what matters at your stage, and prepares the document under their own name.
Who sees my deck?
The Auryn analysts working the review, and nobody else. Your deck is not shown to investors, and it is not used to train models.
What if my company is very early?
Early is fine. Thin is the problem. If there is not enough in the deck to say anything an investor would act on, the analyst cancels the order and refunds you rather than writing around the hole.
Do I need an account?
No. The private link that comes back after payment is the only credential, so keep the email it arrives in. There is no password to lose and nothing to sign up for.
Will you introduce me to investors?
No. Buying a Preflight gets you the analysis and nothing else, and your deck goes no further than the analysts working the review. If we ever think a company should meet an investor on the platform, we ask the founder first, and it is a separate conversation you are free to decline.
What if I disagree with the analysis?
Say so. Disagreeing with a screen is a useful result, and it tells you which part of the story is not landing yet. On Preflight Plus, arguing with it is most of what the meeting is for.
Then walk in knowing.
Send the deck as it stands. It does not need another pass first, because knowing what to fix is the thing you are buying.
Preflight is not investment advice and it is not a valuation opinion. The report describes how an institutional investor would read your company and what a fund’s process would ask next. No outcome with any investor is promised or implied.