Product
Go deeper on what the product is, how it works, and the roadmap, this is what investors are actually funding.
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Cut
- ✕Exhaustive feature dumps (>5 items)
- ✕Deep technical internals better left to the appendix
- ✕Roadmap items dated more than 24 months out
Red flags investors call out
- !20-item feature list with no prioritization
- !Roadmap that reads like a wishlist
- !No form-factor answer, 'AI platform' with no visual
Common failure patterns
What experienced readers spot first when this slide is weak.
- 1Feature list is longer than five items, ranked alphabetically instead of by user impact.
- 2The roadmap is a wishlist with dates further than 18 months out.
- 3The moat statement is 'proprietary AI' or 'network effects' with no mechanism.
Run this against your own slide (60 seconds)
- ?For each feature listed, can you state the concrete outcome it creates for the user?
- ?Does the moat statement describe something that gets stronger with each new customer?
If either answer is no, the fix is above in Include or in the Weak vs. strong block below.
Starter template
Today: [form factor] with [3 core features]. Next 6mo: [nearest milestone]. 12mo: [second milestone]. Moat: [data / distribution / IP].
Weak vs. strong, the same slide, rewritten
“Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of AI-powered features.”
“Web + Slack app. Today: one-button contractor payout, auto-classified tax IDs, stablecoin FX. Next 6mo: 12 new countries + payroll-tax filings in 5. Moat: direct rails in 40 countries, every new market compounds the FX advantage.”
Form factor, ranked features, dated milestone, and a moat (owned rails + country coverage) that gets stronger the more customers use it.
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Sources
See the full methodology for how dwell seconds and scoring weights are derived.