pitch-memolisted

Drafts and critiques a text-first investor pitch memo for pre-seed and seed founders, structured around the 15 questions every investor asks. Use as an alternative or complement to a pitch deck — memos are faster to iterate, harder to hide weak thinking inside, and serve as the script for walking through a deck in a meeting. Triggers on "pitch memo," "investment memo," "fundraise memo," "memo for investors," "pitch document," "alternative to deck," "memo not deck."
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# Pitch memo Source: Josh Constine's *Fundraising & Pitch Deck Guide* — specifically his 15-question memo template — plus Kramon's BLUF rule, Konrad's "tell me a secret about the future," and the existing `pitch-coach` framework. ## Why a memo (not a deck) For pre-seed and seed companies, a memo can outperform a deck: - **No design wrangling.** No fiddling with slide layouts or hiring a designer. - **Pretty design can hide weak thinking; a memo can't.** If the founder can't write the 15 answers cleanly, they're not ready to pitch. - **It's the deck script.** Even if you eventually build a deck, the memo is the narrative spine — write it first, design slides to support it, not the other way around. - **Decks leave investors with questions; memos answer them upfront.** Less follow-up email cycle. A memo replaces a deck for: pre-seed, founders who think in text more than imagery, and any raise where you're competing on *substance* over *presentation*. A memo complements a deck for everyone else. ## The 15 questions (Constine) Every investor asks the same 15 things. A memo that answers all of them in order is the most efficient possible pitch artifact. ### 1. Company name Ideally, if you hear it you can spell it; if you read it you can pronounce it. You should be the top Google or App Store result for your name + a relevant keyword. ### 2. Tagline One-line description. Plain English. No buzzwords. *"AI co-pilot for notaries."* / *"Forward-deployed engineers, but as softw