Tommy Dobczyk grades a deal across five dimensions like a school midterm: theme and market get an A-, but operator narrative, documentation, financial model, and investor readiness lag behind. He built a program that collapses weeks of due diligence into 12 seconds, designed to speed up deals and increase founder payouts.
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Are you in the deal room? Great is that the theme and market is an A-, like that's what we just talked about. The operator narrative is a B, documentation is a C, financial model is a D, and investor readiness is a C. Again, so now it's just telling you what you got to do to, you know, just like when you were in school, when you got your midterm grade, you had a choice. Continue to be, continue to be like Tommy D, or you can figure out, figure out your path in life like Catherine Bell. So what I would demand before taking the next meeting seriously, And here's the thing. We— Catherine had me build this thing with two goals in mind. First one was to collapse timelines. The second one was to add commas to bank accounts. And so this particular program does that. It eliminates— we could have spent 3 weeks figuring this out, right? Like we could have. It took 12 seconds.