The investor-grade memo on your own startup · 12× a year
Everyone says
it’s great.
Get the truth.
Your friends are polite. Your mentors are busy. Investors tell you the truth only by passing. FounderMemo writes what they’re all thinking — a verdict, ranked risks, the case against you — from your own materials plus independent research. Then you fix it and run it again. Twelve times a year.
Run memo 01Exhibit A — the deliverable
It arrives as a memo.
Because that’s what decides your raise.
Every startup eventually gets a memo like this one. The only choice is whether you read it first — while every finding is still fixable.
← this is the document that decides your raise. you’ve just never been on the mailing list.
D is the section founders thank us for. eventually.
Read the full sample memoContents of every memo
Six sections.
No participation trophies.
The verdict
One sentence: lean in, conditional, or not yet. Argued, not vibed.
Strengths & risks
Ranked against your own materials. What’s real, what’s thin, what’s missing.
Market & competitors
The field as diligence sees it — including the rival your deck forgot to mention.
The case against
The strongest argument to pass on you, written at full strength. This is the section that pays for the year.
Open questions
What’s unproven, phrased as the exact diligence questions headed your way.
Audio briefing
The whole memo, listenable. Every run. For founders who read at 140 bpm.
Why twelve
A pass in a partner meeting costs you six weeks. A pass in your memo costs $16.58.
$199 / 12 memos. Same analysis. Different consequences.
The operating rhythm
Score. Fix. Re-score.
Submit
One concept, your materials, five minutes. No login to start.
Read the memo
Verdict to open questions. In hours, written + audio.
Fix what it found
Every weakness is now a to-do list with a deadline you set.
Re-run
Full fresh analysis on the new state. The memo logs what improved.
Terms
One price. Read it in ten seconds.
The one rule: all twelve memos follow the same concept. Continuity is the product — memo 09 checks the promises memo 02 made.
No tiers · no seats math · no sales callThe case against buying this — entered into the record
Your mentors are kind, busy, and invested in liking you. The memo is none of those things — and it re-reads everything from scratch, every run.
You will. Each pass costs a warm intro and six weeks. The memo costs under $17 and an afternoon of reading.
Generic in, generic out. The memo is built from your materials and re-checked against them — claim by claim, revision by revision.
Most useful. Kill the fatal flaw while it costs a weekend instead of a year.
You and your workspace. Private, never used to train models.
Same concept evolving = same subscription. Different company = new file, new $199.
They reset at renewal. Impatient? A second concept file is $199.
Memo 01 stings. Memo 12 raises.