Pulse playbook
Get slide-by-slide investor feedback before any real investor sees it.
The number
You walk into the real room already knowing where the doubts are, and which slides to fix first.
3hr → 8min
The situation
Drop each part of your pitch into Pulse with the room set to investors. It reacts slide by slide (where conviction builds, where a claim reads thin, which objection the partner would raise out loud) so you fix the deck before a real investor ever opens it.
What happens today
With Pulse
How the work moves
Pulse runs each move as a full pass over the deck, so you see which slides inspire conviction and which raise doubts before the room does. Skip freely once you know which slides carry the weight.
Pulse at work
One brief travels through the whole job. Context stays attached until the finished work lands.
Frame
Pulse starts from your description and composes the audience: stage, thesis, the partner you are pitching. No setup meeting, just the buyer you are selling to.
Run
Each slide goes past the investor personas and comes back with structured feedback: sentiment, the emotion split, and the verbatim reaction, not a vibe.
Rank
Slides sort by how the room reacts, with the objections and points of confusion surfaced against each one. Ask a persona why, and it tells you.
Package
A packaged read lands in the format your team already uses: the weak slides flagged, the objection to pre-empt on each, the exact words that landed.
Prompts worth keeping
Three prompts, a kickoff, a full run, and a packaging pass. Copy the one that matches the phase you're in. Rewrite any detail to fit your round.
You are Pulse. I want to pressure-test my pitch deck before any real investor sees it. Set the audience to investors for my stage and thesis, then react to my deck slide by slide, where conviction builds, where a claim reads thin, and the objection each partner would raise. My goal: get slide-by-slide investor feedback before the real room, and take 3hr → 8min per draft. Walk me through the first move and tell me what you need from me.
Run the full playbook end-to-end: describe the round and the investors I want in the room, drop in the deck slide by slide, see which slides win conviction and which raise doubts, then take the fixes into my next draft. For every slide, give me the sentiment, the emotion split, the objections, and the exact words that landed. Ask before skipping any slide. Show work as you go.
Deliver the output as a single read I can share with my co-founders: lead with "3hr → 8min", then the receipts: the slides that lost the room, the objection to pre-empt on each, and the verbatims. Call out anything that shifted the read against the last draft.
What goes in. What comes back.
Pulse runs on the inputs on the left and hands back the artifacts on the right. Skip any input, the agent will ask for it the first time it needs it.
The finished artifact
Every run ends the same way, a packaged read in the channel your team already reads. Here's a preview of what shows up.
Pulse → your team
playbooks
Tue 9:14 AM
Here's the read on this draft. I ran the deck past the investor personas slide by slide, flagged where conviction dropped and which objections came up, and packaged the fixes for Slack and the shared drive.
What moved
3hr → 8min
You walk into the real room already knowing where the doubts are, and which slides to fix first.
deck-read.pdf · objections.csv · verbatims.md
Before you run it
Three ways we see this go sideways and how to avoid each one.
Keep judgment with the team. The playbook should make the work clearer, not hide the assumptions behind it.
Questions
A friendly investor gives you one opinion, usually a kind one, and often after the meeting you needed it for. Pulse reacts as a room of investor personas matched to your stage and thesis, slide by slide, and names the objections a partner would raise, so you fix them before you spend a real intro.
No. You can drop in a rough draft or even a few slides and Pulse reacts to what you give it. Running it early, while there is still time to change the story, is where it pays off most: treat it as a pass per draft, not a final check.
Yes, that is the point. Pulse reacts per slide and ranks them by how the personas respond, surfacing the emotion split and the objection against each one. You can ask a persona why a slide raised a doubt and it tells you in its own words.
Pulse is a rehearsal, not a guarantee: it simulates how investors matched to your round are likely to react and surfaces the objections and confusion early. It gets the doubts on the table while you can still fix them, so the real room hears a sharper version of the deck.
