For most investors, the deck is the first look at your company, and often the deciding factor in whether a meeting happens at all. Getting feedback before you send it out (from advisors, from other entrepreneurs, from anyone who reads a lot of decks) is one of the simplest ways to put your best foot forward. AI can be one of those readers, if you want it to be.
Here's what we've noticed, though. Ask an AI for feedback on a deck and the advice that comes back tends to be generic. It reads like it was written for some average startup that is nothing like yours. When we tried it with early-stage cleantech decks, the reviews asked for unit economics, cohort data, and ten-year projections from teams that had a prototype and a handful of customer conversations.
That's not really the AI's fault: investors rarely publish what they actually look for, so there isn't much for it to learn from. We wrote ours down. The prompt tells the AI how our screening committee reads an early-stage deck, including what counts as evidence before there's revenue and the environmental impact question we put to every company. (Even if you never run it, it's a fair summary of how we think a good early-stage deck should be structured.)
Caveat: AI being AI, some of what comes back will be confidently wrong, and no review (human or otherwise) can tell you whether your business will work. It's your deck. You own it. Bring the same expertise and thoughtfulness to integrating the feedback that you bring to building your company.
To try it: open your AI of choice, attach your deck (the version an investor would read without you in the room), and paste this:
Review the attached pitch deck using E8 Angels' pitch deck feedback prompt at https://www.e8angels.com/resource-library/pitch-deck-prompt. Fetch that page and follow its instructions exactly.
If your AI can't open links, open the prompt page and copy the full prompt instead. Everything runs in your own account: nothing is sent to E8. Treat the review as the start of a conversation; asking follow-up questions and pushing back often draws out more clarity and insight than the first pass.
And when the deck is as good as you can make it: if you're an early-stage company taking on an environmental problem at scale and raising angel capital, we'd like to have a look.
This resource is provided for general educational purposes. AI-generated feedback can be inaccurate or incomplete and is no substitute for your own judgment or professional advice. E8 does not review, store, or receive decks submitted to third-party AI tools through this prompt.