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What Nia sends back

A Principal-style review, not a checklist score

Most deck tools give you generic feedback. Nia's reads like the email you wish a partner had sent after passing — direct, specific, and useful.

One-Line Take

The Principal-style verdict — what this deck is really pitching, and the single biggest reason it would (or wouldn't) make it past first read.

Vector Grades

Letter grades across the dimensions investors actually score on: problem framing, market sizing, traction, team, ask, and narrative coherence.

Three Things Holding This Back

The three structural issues most likely to kill the round. Specific, tied to the slides — not vague feedback you've already heard a dozen times.

Highest-Impact Edits

Slide-by-slide rewrites you can ship in under an hour. New copy, new framing, new charts to add. No fluff, no flattery.

What Is a Pitch Deck?

A pitch deck is a 10–20 slide presentation founders use to introduce their company to investors and raise capital. It compresses the most important elements of a business — problem, solution, market, team, traction, business model, and the round being raised — into a story a venture capital partner can comprehend in 5 minutes and repeat to colleagues from memory.

The 10 Slides Every Investor Wants to See

There's no universal pitch deck template, but there is a universal set of questions investors are trying to answer. Every slide should be in service of one of them. If a slide doesn't answer one of these, cut it.

1. Title / one-liner. Company name, tagline, who you are. 2. Problem. Whose problem, how painful, how often. 3. Solution. What you built and what makes it different. 4. Why now. What changed in the world that makes this possible now. 5. Market. Bottoms-up TAM, not a top-down “1% of a $50B market” estimate. 6. Traction. Numbers, not adjectives. Revenue, growth rate, retention. 7. Business model. How you make money, what a customer is worth. 8. Competition. A real landscape, not a 2×2 with you in the upper-right corner. 9. Team. Why you, why now, why this team. 10. Ask. How much you're raising, what you'll use it for.

How to Make a Pitch Deck in 7 Steps

1. Write the story first, in prose. 2. Pick a template. 3. Draft 10–12 slides. 4. Write bottoms-up numbers. 5. Tighten every word. 6. Get it reviewed. 7. Ship a v1.

The 5 Pitch Deck Mistakes That Kill Rounds

1. Burying the lede. 2. Top-down market sizing. 3. Vague traction. 4. The product slide instead of the mechanism slide. 5. The 2×2 competition matrix.

What Sequoia, a16z, and YC Actually Look For

Sequoia wants a story.
a16z wants conviction.
Y Combinator wants clarity.

Pre-Seed vs Seed vs Series A: How Your Pitch Deck Should Change

Pre-seed decks sell the team and the thesis.
Seed decks sell the wedge.
Series A decks sell the engine.

Why Use AI to Get Honest Pitch Deck Feedback

The structural problem with deck feedback is that the people qualified to give it are the same people you don't want to burn social capital on. Nia is an AI investor manager trained on the public frameworks from Sequoia, a16z, YC, and operator-angel writeups.