AletheiaAI's Own Fundability: How We'd Grade Ourselves on Our Own Platform
We grade hundreds of Indian startups every week. Here's what happens when we run our own signal audit. The exercise is uncomfortable. It's also the most useful thing we've written.
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“AletheiaAI's strongest signal is the product-market fit evidence: founders who complete the full audit report that the experience changes how they think about their pitch, not just what's in it. Behavioral change is a more durable PMF signal than satisfaction scores.”
“Our weakest signal is the one we most frequently identify in founders we grade: revenue quality. AletheiaAI has strong early revenue signals and weak longitudinal retention data — we know founders come back for multiple audits, but we don't yet have the 12-month cohort data to know how our product compounds into fundraising outcomes.”
“The exercise of grading ourselves revealed the metric we had been avoiding: what percentage of founders who use AletheiaAI close a funding round within 12 months, and how does that compare to the base rate for Indian pre-seed founders? We're measuring it now. We weren't before. That's the gap the audit exposed.”
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Amit Tyagi
Founder, AletheiaAI & GP, Fitoor Capital
Veteran of India's startup ecosystem. Writing about fundraising, investor psychology, and what it takes to build fundable startups in India.
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