INVESTMENT SCREENING & DECISION SUPPORT
Know what deserves a closer look before you commit more time.
Send the materials you already have. DueCap independently reviews the opportunity, identifies what does not add up, what is still unsupported, and what should be clarified before you move deeper into diligence.
A focused screening engagement. No software implementation. No long onboarding process.
What does DueCap help you do?
See what matters before you go deeper.
A disciplined first pass on an opportunity - focused on what is credible, what is missing, and what should be tested next.
Filter opportunities earlier
See whether an opportunity deserves more attention before more senior time is committed.
Identify missing evidence
Surface gaps, inconsistencies, and unsupported assumptions across the materials.
Prepare better questions
Go into founder conversations with sharper, more relevant follow-up questions.
Decide the next step
Know whether to stop, ask for more, or move toward deeper diligence.
WHEN TO USE DUECAP
Bring us in when the question is not “What does the deck say?” but “Is this worth more of our time?”
Screening is most useful at the moment when an opportunity looks interesting enough to examine, but not yet clear enough to justify deeper diligence or more senior attention.
01
The deck looks compelling, but the case needs to be challenged.
You want an independent read before enthusiasm hardens into conviction.
02
You do not have time for a proper first review.
Senior investors should not spend hours on work that can be prepared and structured in advance.
03
The materials are incomplete.
You need to know what evidence is actually missing before asking the founder for “more data.”
04
You are preparing for a founder meeting.
You want questions that go beyond the pitch and probe the parts of the case that matter.
05
You need an independent second view.
A separate analytical lens can surface assumptions that are easy to miss when the opportunity already feels familiar.
06
You need to decide whether deeper diligence is justified.
The goal is to move forward deliberately - or stop early for a good reason.
WHAT WE EXAMINE
We review the investment case, not just the presentation.
The exact scope depends on the materials available and the stage of the opportunity. We start with what the company has provided and trace the claims that matter to the investment decision.
From claim to evidence
Every strong investment story rests on assumptions. Our work is to separate what is stated, what is supported, what is inconsistent, and what still needs to be proven.
Business model & value proposition
How the company creates value, who pays, and whether the commercial logic is coherent.
Revenue & unit economics
Revenue quality, pricing logic, margins, customer economics, and inconsistencies between financial claims.
Customer & traction evidence
What traction actually demonstrates, what remains anecdotal, and where evidence is weak or incomplete.
Market assumptions
Claims about market size, timing, competition, adoption, and the assumptions required for the growth story to work.
Financial consistency
Whether the deck, financial model, reported KPIs, and use-of-funds narrative tell the same story.
Capital requirements
What the round is meant to accomplish, what milestones depend on it, and where capital assumptions look fragile.
Team & execution dependencies
Where the case depends heavily on founders, key hires, operational capabilities, or unproven execution assumptions.
Round mechanics & visible structural issues
Obvious inconsistencies in entity, round, SPV, or transaction logic that deserve specialist follow-up.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
The useful part of screening is not the information you already have. It is what the information fails to explain.
Contradictions
Numbers, claims, or narratives that do not reconcile across the materials or with each other.
Evidence gaps
Important conclusions that the investment case depends on but the current materials do not actually support.
Hidden assumptions
Things that need to be true for the company to perform as presented, even when those assumptions are not stated explicitly.
Decision risks
Issues capable of materially changing whether the opportunity deserves deeper diligence, a different question, or no more time.
Questions worth asking
Follow-up questions designed to resolve the uncertainty that matters most, rather than simply produce more information.
What is actually supported
Not every review is negative. We also identify where the evidence is coherent and the case deserves more attention.
Intputs and outputs
What we review. What you receive.
The objective is not to summarize the opportunity. It is to help you decide what deserves further time, diligence, or capital.
What we review
Pitch materials
Decks, summaries, investor materials, and founder-provided context.
Financial information
Revenue, burn, unit economics, projections, and the logic behind the numbers.
Supporting documents
Product, customer, legal, operational, and other evidence available at the screening stage.
Key assumptions
What the investment case depends on - and whether the available evidence supports it.
Early diligence signals
Contradictions, missing evidence, unusual claims, and issues that deserve closer
attention.
What you receive
Screening brief
A structured view of the opportunity, centered on decision-relevant information.
Inconsistency log
What does not reconcile, what appears unsupported, and where the story needs testing.
Management questions
Focused questions for the next founder conversation or evidence request.
Next-step recommendation
What the investment case depends on - and whether the available evidence supports it.
DueCap supports the workaround for the decision. Conviction and final investment authority remain with the investor.
CLEAR BOUNDARIES
What this service is - and what it is not.
This is
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Start with one opportunity.
There is no need to adopt a broad outsourced model upfront. Send a live deal and evaluate the quality of the work first. If the relationship proves useful, we can discuss what else should be delegated.
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