Roast My Pitch Deck
Before you pitch a real investor, pitch this. Paste your pitch, elevator pitch, or a slide-by-slide summary of your deck and get two takes: a roast that finds the weak spots your co-founder is too nice to mention, and a skeptical investor's honest reaction — the same kind of unimpressed, "so what's actually defensible here" energy you'll get in a real room. Instant, and considerably cheaper than finding out live in front of a VC.
The tool evaluates your pitch the way early-stage investors actually process it: fast, skeptical, and looking for reasons to pass. The roast persona targets the jargon, the inflated market sizes, and the "we have no competition" claims that make investors cringe. The investor persona asks the hard questions — about defensibility, traction signals, monetization logic, and whether the ask matches the stage. Both personas are designed to surface the weaknesses you're too close to your own idea to see.
This is for founders preparing for demo days, accelerator applications, angel meetings, or any time you need to get someone excited about your idea in under five minutes. It works whether you're pre-revenue with a thesis or post-traction with a deck full of charts. For help refining the business idea behind your pitch, try our Roast My Business Idea tool. Once your deck is ready, pair it with a website roast to make sure your online presence matches your pitch quality.
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Frequently Asked Questions
It evaluates your pitch narrative, slide structure, data presentation, and investor readiness.
Plans start at €20/month. Paste your pitch deck text for instant investor-perspective feedback.
Most successful pitch decks have 10-15 slides. The key is one clear idea per slide, with a logical flow from problem to solution to market to traction to ask.
Investors look for a clear problem, a compelling solution, market size, traction evidence, a strong team, and a specific ask.
The Pitch Deck Playbook
Why it matters
Investors see hundreds of decks a year and remember the handful that told a clear story. A deck is not a document — it is a narrative with a single question underneath: why will this become a big company, and why is this the team? Most decks bury that answer under dense slides, crowded screenshots, and generic market claims.
This roast reads your deck the way an investor on the fence would. The savage roast finds the filler slides. The investor persona checks narrative flow, the strength of your ask, and the clarity of your traction. The structure pass evaluates whether the story builds from problem to solution to market to proof to ask. Paste your deck's text and see where the story breaks.
Common mistakes
- Problem slide without a villain. The problem needs a face, a pain, and a cost. "Businesses struggle with data" is not a villain; "sales teams lose 6 hours a week to manual entry" is.
- Solution slide that lists features. The solution slide should show the outcome, not the feature list. One sentence of what it does, one of what it changes.
- Market slide with one big number. "The global market is $200B" tells the investor nothing about you. Your serviceable market and your wedge matter more.
- Traction buried or missing. Traction is the strongest slide in the deck. If you have numbers — revenue, users, retention — put them high and make them loud.
- The ask at the end with no "what for". "Raising $1M" without "to hit X milestone in 18 months" is a red flag. The ask needs a use and a milestone.
- Too many slides, too little story. Every slide should advance one idea. If a slide survives deletion without changing the story, delete it.
The checklist
- 10-15 slides, one idea each. The discipline that forces a clear narrative.
- Problem with a named, costly pain. Specific, quantified, felt by a real customer.
- Solution as outcome, not features. What changes for the customer, in one sentence.
- Market: TAM/SAM/SOM with your wedge. Honest numbers, a specific wedge.
- Traction with hard numbers. Revenue, users, retention, or the strongest proof you have.
- Business model and unit economics. How you make money, and whether the economics survive scale.
- Competition slide that is honest. Direct and indirect, with your differentiation stated plainly.
- Team slide with the relevant evidence. Not a resume — why this team wins at this specific problem.
- The ask with a milestone and a use. Amount, what it funds, what it proves.
- A closing line the investor remembers. One sentence they could repeat to a partner.
How to use Pitch Deck
- Paste your deck's text slide by slide. Include the structure markers (Problem, Solution, Market…) so the flow is clear.
- Run the investor persona. The "would I fund this" read on narrative and ask.
- Check the structure pass. Does the deck build to the ask, or does the story stall?
- Cut the filler slides. Delete anything that does not advance the narrative.
- Re-roast after the rewrite. The story should get tighter every pass.
What this roast checks
Investors decide in minutes based on pattern recognition: market, traction, team, defensibility. The roast reads your deck the way a skeptical angel or VC would. The savage persona calls out slides that describe the product instead of the opportunity and decks that bury the ask. The investor persona tests whether you prove demand, show a clear path to revenue, and state your numbers without hand-waving. The narrative check looks at whether the ten slides tell one coherent story or a collection of disconnected screens.
5 pro tips from the review
- Lead with the problem and market size, not your logo animation. Investors scan the first two slides hardest.
- Replace adjectives with numbers everywhere. “Huge market” is a claim; TAM, pain points, and current traction are evidence.
- Show traction that matches your stage: waitlist, revenue, or pilot customers — something real, clearly labeled..
- Answer the obvious objection before they ask it. Risk, competition, and “why now” should be pre-empted in the deck.
- Make the ask explicit: how much, for what, and what it unlocks. Vague asks tank otherwise strong decks.
By the numbers
15minutes an investor typically spends on a deck before deciding
10-15slides in the most successful pitch decks
80%of investors say a clear narrative matters more than design polish
