phy-founder-fundraising_skill

Overview

This skill is a complete fundraising communication system tailored for a solo AI founder. It provides templates, timelines, pitch-deck guidance, and outreach/playbook tactics to run a seed or Series A raise with consistent investor-facing execution. Use it to write investor updates, craft pitch narratives, run outreach, and manage the pipeline end-to-end.

How this skill works

The system inspects your stage, traction points, and target investor profile to produce investor updates, meeting scripts, ask templates, and deck outlines. It supplies cadence recommendations, a 12-month pipeline timeline, and metrics to track conversion and velocity. It also generates situational responses for outcomes (yes, no, not right now, radio silence) and meeting prep tailored to the investor thesis.

When to use it

• Sending monthly or bi-weekly investor updates during pre-raise or active raise.
• Preparing or editing a pitch deck and investor narrative for a seed or Series A round.
• Designing an outreach plan to warm, semi-warm, or cold prospects.
• Preparing for investor meetings, including scripts and likely questions.
• Responding to investor outcomes: commitments, rejections, or silence.

Best practices

• Start with a 20–30 person update list and scale to 50–100; prefer warm paths over cold outreach.
• Use the one-idea-per-slide, data-over-claims rule for decks and maintain short slide copy (max ~20 words).
• Send deck 24 hours before meetings, prepare 3 questions for the investor, and follow up within 24 hours after meetings.
• Frame the raise as milestone-based: state the milestone this round achieves and show use of funds.
• Track meetings/week, conversion to second meeting, and time-to-close; adjust targeting or pitch if conversion <20–30%.

Example use cases

• Generate a concise monthly investor update showing MRR growth, new customers, challenges, and specific asks.
• Turn traction and product details into a 10-slide pitch deck using the provided framework.
• Create a tailored meeting prep sheet for a VC that focuses on AI infrastructure or a vertical thesis.
• Draft follow-up and closing emails for committed investors, including next steps and wire details.
• Automate responses and CRM statuses for 'not right now' and radio-silence scenarios to preserve relationships.