The problem is that a round isn't won in one moment. It's won or lost across many: the story you tell, the numbers behind it, the investors you choose, the emails you send, the meetings, the objections, the term sheet, the close, and what you do after the money arrives. A single prompt can't cover that.
That's why we built The Fundraise Prompt System: 60 Claude prompts for founders raising a pre-seed, seed or Series A, organized around the ten moments that decide whether a round happens. They aren't built to write your pitch for you. They're built to stress-test your raise before an investor does.
Why preparation matters more than ever
Each round has to carry your company further than it used to. According to Carta data reported by SaaStr, by the end of 2024 the median time from a seed round to a Series A had reached 2.2 years. From Series A to Series B, it was 2.5 years.
That means two things. First, the money you raise has to last a long time, so the size and terms of the round matter. Second, you won't raise often. Each round is a rare chance to get the story, the numbers and the investors right. Preparing badly is expensive.
The three rules behind the system
Fill the brackets with real information. A prompt with an empty placeholder, or one filled with a guess, produces a confident answer built on nothing.
Never paste real cap tables, signed contracts or anything under NDA. Rounded numbers and anonymized versions work just as well.
Every output is a draft, not a decision. If you can't defend what Claude gave you without looking at the screen, it's not ready for the room.
The ten moments of a round
The 60 prompts are grouped into ten sections, one for each moment:
Narrative and deck (8 prompts): a clear one-liner, a problem worth solving and a story that holds up.
Metrics and unit economics (6): your numbers in the language investors use to compare companies.
Investor targeting (6): real fit, instead of guessing from a fund's name.
Outreach (6): cold emails, warm intros and follow-ups that add something new.
Meeting prep (8): preparing for the person in the room, not a generic VC.
Objections and diligence (8): finding the real objection behind the questions.
Term sheet and negotiation (6): understanding what each clause means in a bad scenario.
Data room and confidentiality (4): sharing enough without exposing too much.
Momentum and close (4): turning a verbal yes into money in the bank.
Post-close (4): investor updates, board meetings and the next round.
Try one now: find your weakest slide
Here's one of the 60 prompts, free. Write one line describing each slide of your deck, paste it in, and see which slide is holding the whole deck back.
"I'll describe every slide of my deck in one line each: [paste 10–15 lines]. Rank them strongest to weakest, and tell me which single slide — if cut or fixed — would most change an investor's first impression of the whole deck."
Why it works: decks get judged by their worst moment, not their best. Fix the weakest slide before you polish a strong one.
The other 59 prompts cover every other moment of the raise, from your metrics to your first board meeting.
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