The Capital Raise Pre-Flight is a 20 to 30 page diagnostic that scores your deal across the same 12 pass-fail gates investors use to filter you out. Most founders never see which one closed the door.
ⓘ $2,997 one-time fee | 10 business day delivery | Fee credits toward full engagement
Institutional investors do not weigh a deal on its merits first. They run a fast pass-fail screen across 12 categories. Fail one and the conversation ends before the next gate opens. The Pre-Flight runs every one before you walk into the room.
Does it survive a read without you in the room to explain it?
Does it only work if nothing goes wrong?
Dead equity, misaligned incentives, structural risk.
Is your why now specific to a change you can name?
Evidenced traction versus attested traction. Two different things.
Do you have the specific people the plan requires?
Capital tied to milestones or eighteen months of runway with no map?
Incomplete, stale, or inconsistent across documents.
Deviations from institutional standard must be defensible.
An unsegmented target list spends your best introductions on the wrong capital.
Where does conviction break down in the room you are not in?
A perfect deal shown to the wrong mandate is still a no.
Section-by-section analysis across all 12 gates scored against what investors actually use at your raise size.
One score. One assessment. Ready to approach institutional capital or not yet, with a clear path to get there.
Critical, high, and moderate exposure areas identified and keyed to specific findings in the report.
Every gap quantified in dollar, time, and opportunity terms so you understand exactly what staying unready costs.
What to fix first, second, and third. Critical, High, and Medium urgency with effort and dependencies mapped.
Which investor archetypes fit your deal, which to avoid, and why. Negative targeting is capital preservation.
The exact questions an investor is most likely to ask your specific deal before writing a check.
A focused working session on your highest-impact next steps. Not a sales call. We walk through the findings and make sure you know exactly what to do first.
Structured remediation required before any LP outreach.
Sample only. Your report is built entirely from your actual materials.
10 business day delivery. One-time fee. Full fee credited toward IRC Partners' broader engagement if you proceed.
Apply
Submit your materials
We evaluate across all 12 gates
Report and 30-min debrief in 10 business days
A score of 85 or higher means your deal is ready to approach institutional capital. Below that, specific gates are closing the door. The report names which ones.
It is a 20 to 30 page institutional-grade diagnostic that evaluates your opportunity across 12 categories using the same frameworks applied by a senior advisory team with careers spanning institutional capital markets, sponsor finance, and structured equity. You receive a scored assessment, a risk heat map, a priority action plan, and a 30-minute debrief call.
Any founder or developer preparing to raise capital who has a pitch deck and a financial model and wants to know exactly how investors will evaluate their opportunity before walking into the room.
10 business days from the date you submit your materials.
At minimum, your pitch deck and a financial model. The more you provide the deeper the evaluation. Cap table, data room, investor teaser, executive summary, financial projections, business plan, and any supporting documentation will all strengthen the report. There is no such thing as too much.
It is a focused working session on your highest-impact next steps. It is not a sales call. We walk through the report findings and make sure you understand exactly what to do first.
Due to the time, depth, and custom analysis involved in each report, all sales are final. This is a professional diagnostic built on your specific materials, not a digital product.
That is the point. A low score before you go to market is infinitely better than a low score you never see while investors pass on your deal in silence. The report tells you exactly what to fix, in what order, and why each gap matters.
A senior advisory team with careers spanning institutional capital markets, sponsor finance, and structured equity. Not junior analysts. Not AI-generated templates. Professionals who have sat across the table from allocators and know exactly what makes them lean in or walk away.
Especially if you have raised before. Founders who have closed a prior round are often the most exposed because they assume their materials still work. Markets shift. Investor expectations change between rounds. The deck that closed your seed round will not close your Series A. The Pre-Flight identifies the specific gaps between where your materials are today and where they need to be for the round you are raising now.
That is what almost every founder believes before they see the report. A strong deck is one of 12 categories. If your financial model, cap table, deal terms, investor targeting, or data room are not equally strong, investors will pass regardless of how polished your slides look. The Pre-Flight evaluates the full picture, not just the piece you feel best about.
Because you are seeing your deal from the inside. Investors see it from the outside. Those are two fundamentally different perspectives. The Pre-Flight is built to show you your deal through the lens of the people who decide whether to write a check.
Yes. Investors evaluating a $2M raise apply the same structural filters as investors evaluating a $50M raise. They check the same boxes. They look for the same red flags. The only difference is the size of the check. If your model is weak, your targeting is off, or your deal terms are missing standard protections, the outcome is identical at any raise size.
That is exactly when this has the most value. The worst time to discover you are not ready is after you have already started taking meetings. Every investor conversation you take with broken materials costs you credibility you cannot get back. The Pre-Flight gives you a definitive answer on whether you are ready and a specific roadmap for what to fix if you are not.
Yes. The Pre-Flight tells you exactly what is broken. The Investor Readiness Foundation fixes it. It is a 30-day engagement where our team works directly with you to rebuild your pitch deck, stress-test your financial model, build out your data room, restructure your deal terms, and position your opportunity for the right investors. Your Pre-Flight fee applies as a credit toward the Foundation.