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Diligence + Fundraising OS

This is the connective layer for the other five tools: a preparation checklist, a timeline you set your own dates against, a list of the conversations you are running, and drafting help for meeting notes and investor updates. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is saved, so closing the tab discards your entries.

What you get

  • A checklist of what to have ready, grouped by area
  • A timeline and an investor list you keep yourself
  • Structured meeting notes and an update template

Keep confidential material out of this page

Do not upload or paste confidential legal, financial, customer, employee, cap-table, or investor documents. This V1 checklist and workspace are temporary browser tools and do not save your entries.

Data-room checklist

Work through what to have ready, grouped by area. Nothing is uploaded.

Not started

0 of 14 items, which is 0% of the list.

Company and governance

What the company is, who owns it, and which agreements would come up in a review.

Not started

Financial information

The numbers you already produce, gathered and defined so they hold still.

Not started

Product and customers

What you have built, who uses it, and what is in progress.

Not started

Team

Who is here, what they own, and who you plan to add.

Not started

Fundraising materials

The story, the assumptions behind the round, and what the money is for.

Not started

Still to prepare

Grouped by area, so you can see where the work sits.

Company and governance · 3 items

  • Current company overview
  • Ownership and capitalization summary
  • Material contracts inventory

Financial information · 3 items

  • Historical financial statements
  • Current budget or operating plan
  • Revenue or customer metrics definitions

Product and customers · 3 items

  • Product overview
  • Customer and pipeline summary
  • Customer references you could offer

Team · 2 items

  • Team and advisor overview
  • Hiring plan for the period ahead

Fundraising materials · 3 items

  • Fundraising narrative
  • Current round assumptions
  • Use-of-funds plan

Fundraising timeline

Six phases you set the status and your own dates against.

0 of 6 phases marked done

Working on: Prepare.

  1. 1. Prepare

    Not started

    Get your own material in order before anyone asks for it.

    Where this phase stands.

    A date you are setting for yourself.

    The one thing that moves this along.

  2. 2. Build the target list

    Not started

    Decide who you are approaching, and in what order.

    Where this phase stands.

    A date you are setting for yourself.

    The one thing that moves this along.

  3. 3. Start conversations

    Not started

    Open the conversations you have decided to open.

    Where this phase stands.

    A date you are setting for yourself.

    The one thing that moves this along.

  4. 4. Run diligence

    Not started

    Answer what is asked, and produce what you said you would.

    Where this phase stands.

    A date you are setting for yourself.

    The one thing that moves this along.

  5. 5. Make the financing decision

    Not started

    Decide what you are doing, based on what you now know.

    Where this phase stands.

    A date you are setting for yourself.

    The one thing that moves this along.

  6. 6. Close or choose another path

    Not started

    Finish the financing, or take a different path deliberately rather than by default.

    Where this phase stands.

    A date you are setting for yourself.

    The one thing that moves this along.

Investor CRM

A list of the conversations you are running, typed by you and kept in this tab.

This list is temporary

Nothing here is saved. The list lives in this browser tab only, is never synced to any service, and disappears when you close or refresh the page. Copy it out if you want to keep it.

No investors yet

Add a row and fill it in yourself. Nothing is prefilled, nothing is looked up, and nothing here leaves your browser.

Meeting notes

Turn what you recorded into a structured note you can keep.

Whoever you met, as you refer to them.

When the conversation happened.

Who was in the room, on both sides.

The questions they actually put to you.

Your own read, written as your read. Left blank if you would rather not guess.

What was left unresolved when you finished.

Only what was actually said, by either side.

The one thing you will do next.

When you intend to do it.

Investor update

A template for a periodic update, built from your own words.

The period this update covers, in your own words.

One sentence on where things stand.

What moved, in your own words.

One number or piece of evidence, with a date attached.

What you are watching. Naming it is usually easier than explaining it later.

Small enough for someone to act on.

The one thing that matters most next.

Start over

Clears the checklist, the timeline, the whole investor list, and both documents in one step. There is no undo, because nothing is stored to undo from.

From the publication

Read The Raise Memo

A daily note for founders raising capital—what investors notice, how conviction gets built, and what to do next.

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