Run your cohort on the read investors use.
Every founder scored on the four lenses. A Coach that works your program’s plan with each founder every day. Your readiness call, with the numbers in front of you. And a room you open to your own investors, one link each.
Unlimited analyses · Four lenses · The Coach · Your investor room · 5 admin seats · Custom pricing by cohort size
Every deck scored on PitchVault, each counted once. The same rubric reads every founder in your cohort, and the same numbers are what your investors see in the room.
Most programs don't know which founders are ready until it's too late.
Internal analysis is inconsistent. Mentors have different standards. And the first real pressure test is often in front of the investors you invited to demo day.
No objective baseline
Most programs rely on mentor analysis — inconsistent across founders and impossible to compare at scale. Who is actually ready is a guess until demo day, and by then it is too late to fix.
No visibility into improvement
Founders say they iterated. Without a score history across four dimensions, you cannot see whether the changes moved the needle or just shuffled the slides.
Coaching time goes to the wrong places
Without data on where the cohort is weakest, by lens, across every founder, sessions cover everything and fix nothing at scale. The bottleneck is knowing what is lagging.
Investors read the cohort cold
Your investors meet the cohort at demo day with a deck and a hunch. No shared read, no readiness call, no record of who moved. The ones who miss the day never see it at all.
Five stages from program setup to the investor room.
Set up your program
Create the cohort, set the stage and sectors, invite founders by email or share a join link, or open the application queue and review applicants before they join.
Founders score their decks
Every founder uploads a deck and gets the four-lens read automatically. You see every score on the cohort dashboard the moment it runs, and every re-run after.
Coach with data, not guesswork
The Coach works your program brief with each founder every day. The dashboard shows who is progressing, where the gaps are, and what the Coach flagged. Leave timestamped notes per founder; set milestones the cohort tracks.
Demo day & the readiness call
Rank founders by readiness. Make the call on each one, with the four scores against the stage bar in front of you, and write the note investors will read. Send the opt-in confirmation. Generate the LP report.
Open the room to your investors
Mark founders ready, confirm their opt-in, and open the cohort's investor room. Invite your own investors by email; one link signs them in. Intro requests and passes with reasons come back to you.
One dashboard. Every founder. Sorted by who's ready.
You get the tools. Your founders get the analysis, and the coaching layer that individual accounts do not: the Coach, the Raise Plan and the Investor Packet.
| Founder | VaultScore | VaultMoat | VaultRisk | VaultOps | Readiness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Northwind Bio Seed · Biotech | 78 | 71 | 41 | 69 | Ready |
Tessera Pre-seed · Fintech | 74 | 52 | 48 | 61 | 1 lens left |
Loop Freight Seed · Logistics | 61 | 44 | 66 | 50 | Coach on it |
Illustrative cohort. Scores read against the bar for each founder's stage; VaultRisk is a ceiling, lower is better.
Cohort dashboard
One view of every founder: the four scores against the stage bar, the trend, the Coach's flags and the readiness state. Sort and filter by any of them.
Application intake queue
Founders apply through your program page. Review submissions and accept applicants into the cohort before the program opens.
The Coach
An agent that knows your program brief, the schedule and each founder's gaps, and works them every day toward a higher score. You see what it thinks and set how it behaves.
Score history
Every founder's scores across every upload, visible to you and, in the room, to your investors. A founder going 58 to 76 in three weeks tells investors they can be coached.
Readiness & LP report
Rank the cohort by readiness, make the call per founder, send the opt-in confirmations, and generate a downloadable LP report with aggregate scores and outcomes.
The investor room
Invite your own investors by email. Each gets a personal link that signs them in: founders marked ready, four scores, your note, the deck and the report. Intros and passes with reasons come back to you.
Your investors, one link each.
Invite your own investors by email. Each gets a personal link that signs them in to the cohort's room: the founders you marked ready, ranked by VaultScore, with the four scores against the stage bar, your note, the deck and the report.
Point-of-care diagnostics for rural clinics, sold per test.
DirectorCleared every bar this week. The 40-clinic pilot closes the traction question.
Payroll for cross-border teams under 50 people.
DirectorMoat lens is the only gap; cleared for the room on the strength of the pilots.
What comes back is the response: who opened the room, who asked for an intro, who passed and why. The reasons help you coach; the intros are yours to make.
Built for any program that sends founders to investors.
Accelerators
Running a batch program with 10–30 founders preparing for demo day. Every founder gets a four-lens read, not just pitch polish. The room stays open to your investors after demo day ends.
Incubators
Supporting early-stage founders over a longer program. Track VaultScore™, VaultRisk™ and VaultMoat™ across cohort rounds. Know which founders are ready to raise, and open the room to the investors you already know.
Venture studios
Building companies in-house. Your founding teams get the same four-lens evaluation an outside investor would apply, before the first real pitch.
University programs
Running a student startup program. Give student founders professional-grade analysis benchmarked against real investor criteria, not peer review. The best companies go into the program's investor room when the director opens it.
Cost Comparison · Traditional vs PitchVault
What programs actually spend to prepare a cohort for investors.
The cost isn't the founders who don't raise. It's preparing them without knowing who's ready — and watching the pipeline end at demo day.
| Activity | Traditional approach | PitchVault ✦ | Traditional | PitchVault |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitch prep cost | External pitch coaches ($200–400/hr), demo day workshop facilitators, and deck consultants — billed per session, per founder, per cohort | Unlimited analyses for every founder, every deck version — included in the annual partnership | $10,000–$30,000/cohort | Custom · contact us |
| Feedback consistency | Varies by mentor — different standards, different priorities, no shared baseline across the cohort | Same 4-dimension investor rubric applied to every founder. Every score is comparable. | Inconsistent | Standardised |
| Identifying who needs coaching | No objective signal — program managers read individual decks or rely on mentor impressions | Cohort dashboard shows every founder's four scores in one view. Lagging dimensions flagged automatically. | Manual, slow | Real-time dashboard |
| Tracking improvement | Founders say they've iterated — no way to verify what changed or whether it moved the needle | Full score history across every upload. See exactly what improved, by how much, across which dimension. | No tracking | Full history |
| Post-demo day pipeline | Founders cold outreach after the program ends. Your pipeline visibility ends at demo day. | Founders who opt in stay in the program’s investor room. Pipeline continues after the program ends. | Ends at demo day | Ongoing |
| Investor-readiness signal | No objective threshold — investors decide in the room whether a founder is ready | All four lenses clear at the stage bar = Raise Ready. Founders and the director know before demo day who has cleared it. | None | Clear threshold |
| Cohort-level tools | Individual Investor-Grade Analysis (free for each founder) gives founders their own report — no program-level view, no cohort comparison, no admin seats | Cohort dashboard, the Coach, the readiness call, the investor room, CSV export, 5 admin seats — not available in individual accounts | Not available | Included |
“It mentioned several parts that our mentors pointed out during our accelerator program. Overall it gives really useful feedback from an investor's stance. Pretty impressive.”
What directors ask before they start.
How does the program lifecycle work?
Programs move through five statuses you control: Draft (setup only, no founder activity), Intake Open (applications accepted, founders can join via invite), Active (founders run analyses, the Coach runs), Demo Day (readiness ranking, investor opt-in, LP report), and Completed (graduation). The investor room is separate: you open it whenever you choose, usually around demo day.
Can I control when my founders appear to investors?
Yes. Analyses are private by default throughout the program. When you are ready, usually around demo day, you open the cohort's investor room with a single switch. Only founders you marked ready who confirmed the opt-in appear in it, and only to the investors you invited. Founders can opt out individually at any time.
What do founders see vs. what do I see?
Founders see their own full four-lens report, the Coach, and any notes or milestones you set for them. You see every founder's report plus the cohort dashboard, the Coach's flags, score histories, the application queue, the readiness ranking, and the investor room's responses. Those tools exist only in the program workspace.
Can I use PitchVault alongside my existing mentors?
Yes. The score gives mentors an objective baseline, and you assign mentors per founder with a bench on your dashboard. Most programs use the Coach's flags to direct mentor time: the data says which lens each founder needs to address before the session.
How do investors access my cohort's founders?
You invite them. From the cohort page you add investors by name and email; each gets a personal link to the cohort's room that signs them in, with no application. In the room they see the founders you marked ready, ranked by VaultScore, with the four scores against the stage bar, your readiness note, the deck and the report. They request an intro or pass with a reason, and both come back to you.
Custom pricing. Everything your program needs.
Every founder gets the full four-lens analysis, the ranked Action Plan and the Coach for the duration of the program. Plus the cohort-level tools no individual account has: lifecycle, intake, your readiness call, demo day readiness, and the investor room. Priced by cohort size.
- Unlimited analyses for all cohort founders
- Full four-lens report — VaultScore™, VaultMoat™, VaultRisk™, VaultOps™
- The coaching layer, for cohort founders only — the Coach brief, the Action checklist, the Raise Plan and the Investor Packet
- The Coach — daily, briefed by you, with its flags on the dashboard
- Mentors assigned per founder, with a bench on the director's dashboard
- Application intake queue — review and accept applicants before the program opens
- Cohort dashboard with readiness ranking, coaching notes, and milestones
- Demo day readiness ranking · investor opt-in · LP report
- The investor room — invite your own investors, one link each, intros and passes back to you
- 5 admin seats · CSV export · Priority support
Demo day is the beginning, not the finish line.
Give your founders the four-lens analysis real investors use, and a room your own investors open with one link. We reply within two business days.
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