What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents overly optimistic or reflexively negative startup evaluations by applying a structured, evidence-based fundability review with independent challenge and explicit decision criteria.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Eight-Dimension Evaluation: Assess market size, urgency, problem severity, founder wedge, competition, defensibility, distribution, business model, and technical execution risk.
- Reality Calibration: Ground market claims with sourced TAM data, named competitors, and recent comparable funding or exit signals.
- Independent Devil's Advocate: Produce a codex-backed bear case and steelman to expose hidden risks without treating incumbent competition as automatically fatal.
- Decision and Iteration Support: Deliver GO, CONDITIONAL_GO, NO_GO, or unresolved outcomes with fatal flaws, must-be-true assumptions, cheap validation tests, and a hardened proposal.
- Use Case: Evaluate a proposed developer infrastructure startup before a founder meeting, identify the single assumption that determines fundability, and design the cheapest pilot to validate it.
Quick Start
Use the vc-gauntlet skill to evaluate this startup proposal against real market evidence and return the required investment verdict JSON.