fundraising-stage-selector — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited fundraising-stage-selector (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Every later step - deck, targeting, terms - is wrong if the stage is wrong. The most common founder error is raising at the stage they wish they were at, not the one their evidence supports. This skill fixes the stage first.
Reach for it before writing a deck or emailing an investor, whenever the founder asks how much to raise, what valuation is realistic, or whether to raise at all yet. It produces the envelope; everything downstream is calibrated to it.
Place the company by what is proven, not what is hoped:
are selling the founder and the bet. Typical raise $250k-$1.5M.
retention, or week-over-week usage growth. Typical raise $1.5M-$4M.
metric that scales (often ~$1M+ ARR for SaaS, with strong growth/retention). Typical raise $6M-$15M.
If the evidence straddles two stages, you are at the lower one. Investors price the floor of your story, not the ceiling.
Do not raise "as much as you can." Raise the amount that buys the next fundable milestone plus margin:
forces >25% at a realistic valuation, the amount is too big or the valuation too low - fix one.
Triangulate, never anchor on a single hope:
geography and sector.
$10M post.)
rounds start at seed/A. Pair with [[safe-vs-priced-round]].
The number you can defend beats the number you can dream. An overpriced round you barely fill creates a down-round trap next time.
Push back before pulling forward. Don't raise if: the milestone is reachable on revenue, the story has no proof and no clock, or dilution buys less than a clear step-change. Bootstrapping a quarter to add proof often beats raising weak.
A one-page raise thesis: stage (with the evidence that fixes it), amount, the named milestone it funds, months of runway, target dilution, and a defensible valuation range with its comparables. Hand this to [[fundraise-readiness-audit]] before going out.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.