Every applicant's deck looks fundable. We tell you which ones are.
NexTraction scores every founder who applies on evidence — market soundness, investor-readiness, team — and hands your selection committee a ranked, standardized read in days. Then it tracks the founders you accept, straight through to demo day.
Evidence-first scoring · No prompting · Co-branded for your program
Cohort 2026 — Spring intake
32 founders · 12 sectors
A strong program draws a thousand applications. Your team runs out of time before it runs out of decks.
They're read by hand, scored by gut, and ranked by whoever's in the room. The founder who's all polish reads exactly like the one who's the real thing.
POLISH SLIPS THROUGH THE SKIM
Same committee. Same final call. Sharper inputs.
When every applicant is scored against one verified framework, your team stops triaging and starts deciding.
Selection success rate
More of the founders you back go on to raise.
Screening & diligence time
A full applicant pool, read in days.
Reviewer workload
Your analysts read insights, not raw decks.
You pick winning founders faster, smarter, and with fewer people — and walk into committee with a ranking you can defend.
Figures modeled on NexTraction's Power-User benchmark. Calibrated per program during pilot.
It wraps around your program. It changes nothing about how you run it.
One workflow across both halves of your cycle — the screening before, the monitoring during.
You keep the final decision. NexTraction does the reading.
Your founders get a coach that won't flatter them.
The same evidence engine that screens them stays with them through the program — turning hard feedback into a deck investors actually fund.
Scored on evidence, not eloquence.
Six pillars of market viability and an investor-readiness read — each with the reasoning behind the number, and a stage-aware valuation range.
Helios
Energy optimization · Seed · Climate-tech
Sound market — deck needs sharper traction evidence to clear the seed bar.
They pressure-test the pitch on AI buyers.
Founders rehearse messaging against AI personas of their real customers — and hear the objection before a live prospect ever raises it.
Maya · 34
Ops lead · mid-market manufacturer
A VC grills them before a real one does.
A multi-turn Virtual VC interrogates unit economics, defensibility and the ask — then scores how well they held up under pressure.
Virtual VC · Seed partner
Live simulation
An investor-ready deck, scored every version.
NexTraction drafts and edits the deck straight from the analysis, scoring each version — so you can watch the cohort's pitches climb over time.
Helios — pitch deck
v4 · 12 slides · generated from analysis
Cutting energy spend 18% — with zero hardware
Screen the pool. Then watch the cohort.
Two screens cover your whole cycle: a batch intake that scores every applicant against your thesis, and a live board that tracks the founders you keep.
Score 200 applicants against your thesis.
Push your whole applicant pool in — by deck or by API. Set the stages, sectors and readiness bar you select on, and get back a ranked, evidence-backed read in days.
30 applicant decks attached
Thesis · Seed · Climate / Fintech / HealthHelios Energy
helios_seed_deck.pdf
Verda Labs
verda_pitch_v2.pdf
Paywise
paywise_deck.pdf
+ 27 more applicants
Open any founder, see the whole story.
Not just a number — the evidence behind it and how it's trended since intake. Catch the team that's stalled weeks before demo day does. Everything rolls up to the cohort board at the top of this page.
Nova
Climate · Seed
Market Viability · MVI
Investor Readiness · IRS
Deck score by version
The difference between a cheerleader and a diligence partner.
A general-purpose LLM will tell every founder they're brilliant. Your cohort's reputation can't run on that.
Does the story sound good?
Rewards polish, confidence, and a big TAM slide.
- Tells the founder what they want to hear
- Invents numbers when the deck is thin
- Scores differently every time you ask
- Needs prompt engineering to be useful
Is the venture actually solid?
Weighs evidence against a verified framework.
- Grades market evidence, traction & team-market fit
- Omits what it can't verify — never fabricates
- One standard, applied to every applicant
- Purpose-built — no prompting required
Fit is what a project matches with. Soundness is whether it holds up under scrutiny. Demo-day investors judge the second — so your selection should too.
Built to sit inside a program, not beside it.
Your brand, your thesis, your intake pipeline — with a human always at the wheel.
Co-branded
Your logo and program name on every report your founders see. It reads as yours, because it is.
Batch intake via API
Push your whole applicant pool in one call. Pull structured, ranked scores straight back into your stack.
Tuned to your thesis
Set the stages, sectors and readiness priorities you actually select on. The scoring bends to your mandate.
Human-in-the-loop
The score informs; your committee decides. NexTraction never makes the call — it makes the call easier.
Run a pilot on your next 30 applicants.
Send us 30 decks. We score them against your thesis. You compare our ranking to your committee's — and see exactly where the polish was hiding the risk.
How a pilot works
- 01
You share 30 decks
From your live or last applicant pool — whichever you'd rather pressure-test.
- 02
We return ranked, evidence-backed scores
MVI, IRS and a stage valuation for each — in days, co-branded to your program.
- 03
You judge the calls against your own
Side by side with your committee's picks. No lift to set up, nothing to install.