A fund decides what it thinks of you before you walk in. investor-recon reads their real material and hands you the brief first.

VC Prep Brief ยท Northgate Ventures (sample) cites every claim
You have their homepage tagline and a guess.
"They invest in great teams solving big problems."
You answer the questions they already settled, and miss the one that kills the deal.
The fund's real thesis

Not the homepage line. Their last 9 checks went to infra-layer tools sold bottoms-up to engineers, not to apps. [9 sources]

Where you fit

You match the wedge (developer-first, bottoms-up). You collide with Portfolio Co. Vela, which they already own in an adjacent slot. [2 sources]

The one objection that kills the deal

This partner has passed twice on tools without a self-serve motion. Your deck leads with enterprise sales. That reads as the thing they just declined.

Your counter (say it before they raise it)

Open with the self-serve funnel and the bottoms-up numbers. Frame enterprise as the expansion, not the wedge.

Honesty

Check size for your stage: Not found. The tool will not guess a number from the fund's name. It tells you what it could not confirm instead of making it up.

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Sample output of investor-recon. With the brief you get the fund's real thesis (9 cited sources), where you fit, the one objection that kills the deal, your counter, and an honest "Not found" where check size could not be confirmed. Without it, you have a homepage tagline and a guess.