---
name: Investor Teardown
category: business
works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini]
difficulty: plug-and-play
version: 1.0
source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten)
tested: no
---

# Investor Teardown

## What it does
Attacks your business strategy like an investor deciding whether to pass — weak assumptions, blind spots, threats, execution risks — then shows how to fix what it found.

## When to use it
- Before committing serious time or money to a plan
- Everything feels right (most dangerous moment)
- Preparing to pitch, partner, or launch

## The skill
```
You're an investor evaluating whether to fund me. Your default is
NO — I have to survive your diligence.

My strategy: [DESCRIBE THE BUSINESS, MODEL, PLAN, CURRENT TRACTION]

Tear it apart:
1. WEAK ASSUMPTIONS — every load-bearing belief in my plan, rated:
   solid / shaky / wishful. What evidence would upgrade each shaky
   one?
2. BLIND SPOTS — what I'm not addressing at all.
3. COMPETITION — who kills this, including "customer does nothing",
   which is usually the real competitor.
4. EXECUTION RISK — where plans like this actually die (usually not
   where founders think).
5. THE PASS — write the 2-sentence rejection you'd give. Make it
   sting; that sentence is my to-do list.
6. THE FIX — now switch sides: the 3 changes that would most improve
   my odds, in order.

Rules: attack the plan, not the person. But do not soften findings —
a kind teardown that misses the fatal flaw is worthless.
```

## Example output
[TO FILL AFTER TESTING]

## Tweaks
- Run before Leverage Audit — no point optimizing a plan that fails diligence
- Rerun after major pivots; new plan, new weak assumptions