Free investor readiness quiz and assessment · 2 minutes
Investor Readiness Score: would your raise survive the investor screen?
Ten questions that check your raise the way an investor does before taking a meeting. You get a score out of 21, a verdict, and the things an investor would attack first, with what to do about each one.
Scored by Mohamed Chaudry FCCA · 25 years as a CFO · $300M+ raised · 250+ decks reviewed
What the investor screen asks
The 10 questions in the Investor Screen
Three questions tailor your report. Seven are scored, three points each. Founders without documents yet get two different questions at 08 and 09, so everyone answers 10.
01
Where you are
Where are you today?
Used to tailor your report02
Raise timing
When do you plan to start raising?
Used to tailor your report03
Investor conversations
Have you pitched investors yet?
Used to tailor your report04
Cash runway
Could you state your monthly burn and months of runway right now, without checking?
05
Ask coherence
Is your raise amount tied to specific milestones, so you could say exactly what it gets you to?
06
Traction proof
Can you show your monthly growth, customer retention and cost to win a customer from real data, not estimates?
07
Assumption source
What is your year-2 growth rate built from?
08
Number coherence, or investor fit
If you have documents: when did you last check your deck’s revenue figure against your model? If not yet: can you name 20 investors who have backed your stage, sector and cheque size in the last 18 months?
09
Claim evidence, or build order
If you have documents: take the biggest claim in your deck, including your market size. Is there a number and source on the same slide? If not yet: do you know which documents investors will ask for, and which to build first?
10
Defensibility
Could you explain in two sentences why a bigger company, or an AI tool, couldn’t copy you in 6 months?
How your score works
Three verdicts, and what each one means
Your raise would likely survive the first screen. The risk now is a single number that does not reconcile.
An investor would likely flag it for review, often because the deck, plan and model were written separately and quietly disagree.
It would likely be screened out before a real conversation. That is a specific, fixable gap, not a verdict on the business.
Haven’t built your documents yet? You still get a score out of 21, plus a build order: plan and model first, then the deck.
Why I built this
Documents are easy now. Judgement isn’t.
Anyone can generate a deck in an afternoon. What still decides a raise is whether the numbers hold together when someone who knows what to look for checks them. I have sat on both sides of that table for 25 years. This assessment asks the questions I would ask first.
What founders say the review found
The gaps they hadn’t seen, found before the investor did
“That process revealed inconsistencies I hadn't seen. Together we fixed them and built a pitch deck that's actually investor-ready.”
Peter Nikolaev
Founder and CEO, Corvan AI
“It highlights the specific areas in our numbers that might look off, so we can rectify them before the actual pitching day.”
Fariz Ibrahim
Founder, Automaxis
“He challenged me with around 20 key questions about the business, the market, the financial model, the strategy, and how an investor would actually look at the opportunity.”
Ahmed Zoher
Founder, Quantara Flow AI
“The level of preparation and quality of documentation was exceptional.” Paul Witter, Relationship Director, HSBC
Investor Ready Media
What an investor-ready founder sounds like
The raises I work on most closely end up on the record. Pro Plus founders are invited onto my podcast to tell the story of their raise. This is Peter Nikolaev of Corvan AI.
FAQ
Common questions
What is the Investor Readiness Score?
The Investor Readiness Score is a free assessment built by Mohamed Chaudry FCCA. It checks your raise the way an investor screens it, scores you out of 21, gives a verdict of Likely Pass, Needs Review or Likely Fail, and names the things an investor would attack first, with what to do about each one this week.
How long does it take and is it free?
About two minutes, and it is completely free. You answer 10 multiple-choice questions, enter your first name and email, and see your score and verdict straight away. There is no sales call.
What is an investor screen?
An investor screen is the first pass an investor makes before taking a meeting: is there real traction, do the numbers reconcile across the deck, model and plan, are the claims evidenced, and is the ask tied to milestones. Many raises are filtered out here, before a real conversation starts.
Do investors use AI to screen pitch decks?
Increasingly, yes. More funds now use AI to summarise materials and find deals before a partner reads them, which makes contradictions and unsupported claims easier to catch. The assessment checks the same things a person or a machine would flag.
What score do I need?
16 or above out of 21 is a likely pass. 10 to 15 means an investor would likely flag your raise for review. Below 10 means it would likely be screened out before a real conversation. The bands are Mohamed’s judgement from 25 years of raising and reviewing decks. Founders who have not built their documents yet get a starting score and a build order.
What happens after I take it?
You see your score and verdict straight away, and a fuller breakdown arrives by email with one fix for each area. If you want the gaps fixed for you, InvestorReady.AI builds and checks your deck, plan and model together, from $399.
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