soft-screening-startup

Paste the company description, pitch, or funding ask and ask for a screen. The Skill scores 8 dimensions on a 1-10 rubric, applies 4 investor lenses, and returns a weighted score with a PASS, CONDITIONAL PASS, or DECLINE verdict plus an investment memo.

This Skill uses team, market, product, traction, business model, competition, financials, and risk profile, weighted most heavily toward team (25%) and market (20%). It also applies Sequoia, YC, Tiger Global, and risk-management lenses to capture different investor philosophies.

Yes. The Skill never refuses due to missing data. It makes reasonable assumptions for gaps like traction or financials and flags each assumption with a warning marker so you know what to verify.

Soft screening is a qualitative, prompt-driven evaluation producing a scorecard and memo. Hard screening uses a deterministic Python scoring script with an audit trail, invoked via the hard-screening-startup command in the same plugin.

Yes. It calibrates expectations by stage: pre-seed emphasizes team and vision, seed looks for early traction, Series A expects repeatable growth, and Series B and later focus on unit economics.