Would your data room survive the first look?
The generic lists have 60 documents and no opinion. This one is reorganised around what your lane's investors actually open first, with the finance and traction section most pre-seed rooms get wrong. Tick what you have, see what an investor notices.
We send your readiness percentage, the section tallies, and the names of the open items, never a document and never a name. One copy reaches the Lab so a human can pick up the thread if you want one. Nothing else leaves this page.
Items marked Must are the ones diligence opens first; they count double in the readiness score. The list follows what early-stage investors ask for from seed onward, reorganised for lanes where the standard SaaS checklist breaks: AI cost splits, token tables, grant files. It is a map, not legal advice, and your local counsel has the last word on the legal section.
Want a human pressure-testing the room before investors see it?
Assembling and defending the data room is exactly the work behind the Operator dose. One email starts it.
Email meMore instruments in the Founder Lab. Weak on the finance section? The Model Lab and the Dilution Scan fill the two biggest gaps.