Investor Story Forensics deconstructs every claim in your fundraising narrative, maps each to operational evidence, and exposes the vulnerabilities that sophisticated diligence will find — before investors do.
Every fundraising narrative makes claims. Market size. Growth trajectory. Competitive moats. Unit economics. Most leadership teams have never mapped those claims to the evidence that a diligence team will demand. The story feels true because the team built it together — not because it survives interrogation.
Sophisticated investors don’t just read your deck. They forensically cross-reference every claim against your financials, your metrics, your customer data, and your market position. The gap between what you assert and what the evidence shows isn’t just a credibility problem — it kills deals.
Every assertion in your investor narrative is isolated, categorized, and tested against operational evidence. Claims that lack supporting data are flagged. Claims with contradictory data are escalated.
Your numbers need to tell the same story from every angle. Revenue figures, growth rates, unit economics, and market share claims are cross-referenced across every data source your diligence team will access.
Where will a skeptical LP or acquisitive buyer attack? The weak points in your story aren’t where you think they are. They’re in the assumptions you’ve stopped questioning and the metrics you’ve stopped contextualizing.
For every vulnerability, you need a prepared response — not a deflection, but a substantive answer backed by evidence. The difference between a deal that closes and one that stalls is how you handle the hard questions.
The Narrative Due Diligence Protocol subjects your investor story to the same adversarial scrutiny a sophisticated diligence team would apply. But instead of discovering vulnerabilities in a live deal process, you discover them in a controlled environment with time to fix them.
Each exercise builds on the last. Forensic Claim Examination isolates and tests individual assertions. The Skeptical LP Simulation pressure-tests the narrative as a whole. The Metric Consistency Audit catches the numerical contradictions that kill credibility. Counter-Narrative Preparation arms your team for every hard conversation.
Deconstruct the investor narrative sentence by sentence. Every claim is isolated, categorized by type, and mapped to the evidence that supports or contradicts it. No assertion survives on reputation alone.
A structured adversarial exercise where the facilitation team plays the role of a skeptical limited partner. Your team presents the narrative live and fields the questions that polite investors won’t ask but are thinking.
Cross-reference every quantitative claim in the narrative against source data. Revenue, growth, retention, TAM, unit economics — if the numbers don’t reconcile across sources, diligence will find the discrepancy.
For every identified vulnerability, build a substantive, evidence-backed response. Not spin. Not deflection. A prepared counter-narrative that acknowledges the issue and demonstrates command of the facts.
Most investor preparation is collaborative — help you tell a better story. This is forensic. We stress-test your narrative the way a skeptical diligence team would, surfacing the cracks before the stakes are real. The Skeptical LP Simulation alone surfaces vulnerabilities that months of internal rehearsal miss.
We don’t review your deck at the slide level. We decompose it at the claim level. Every assertion — explicit and implied — is isolated, categorized, and tested against evidence. The Claim-Evidence Matrix becomes your pre-diligence preparation document.
Before the session, we review your existing investor materials, financials summary, and metric sources. The workshop starts with your actual narrative, not a hypothetical one. Every exercise uses your real claims and your real data.
CEO · CFO · VP Sales · Board Observer (optional)
3–5 decision-makers. Everyone participates in claim examination and vulnerability scoring.
A structured forensic examination that deconstructs every claim in your investor narrative, maps each to operational evidence, identifies where the story cracks under scrutiny, and prepares your team to defend or revise before entering diligence.
Petrichor’s proprietary four-dimension framework that examines Claim Integrity (do your claims survive evidence?), Metric Consistency (do your numbers tell the same story?), Narrative Vulnerability (where will skeptics attack?), and Counter-Narrative Readiness (can you respond under pressure?).
$7,500 for a 2.5-hour facilitated session including pre-workshop narrative review, all workshop materials, and 5 post-workshop deliverables within 48 hours.
CEO, CFO, VP Sales, and optionally a Board Observer. 3 to 5 participants maximum. Everyone participates in claim examination and vulnerability scoring.
Narrative Due Diligence Report, Claim-Evidence Matrix, Vulnerability Assessment, Investor FAQ Preparation, and Investor Story Scorecard. All delivered within 48 hours of the session.
Pre-fundraise (Series A through growth equity), pre-acquisition during due diligence preparation, when your narrative hasn’t been stress-tested in 12+ months, or when leadership disagrees on what the investor story actually is.
Within 48 hours you receive all 5 deliverables including your Claim-Evidence Matrix and Vulnerability Assessment. Your team has a prioritized remediation list and prepared responses for every identified vulnerability. Petrichor follows up at 30 days to reassess narrative readiness.
Pitch coaching polishes the surface. Forensics tests the structure. We don’t help you tell a better story — we find the claims that will collapse under diligence and force you to fix them before an investor does. The Skeptical LP Simulation alone surfaces vulnerabilities that no amount of slide design can cover.
Complete facilitator guide, slide deck, interactive worksheets, scorecard template, and pre-work document. Everything you need to run a structured session with your leadership team.
Or book a facilitated session for the full experience.
We’ll discuss whether your investor narrative is ready for forensic examination — and which claims are most likely to break under scrutiny.
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