EPIC Alliance brings structured, stage-calibrated assessment to the organisational dimensions of startup risk — the ones most correlated with failure, and assessed the least.
A structured 51-KPI assessment in about 40 minutes. A live Coach AI that anchors weekly progress in your real data. A scorecard you can share with investors when you're ready.
Learn more → For InvestorsStandardised scorecards from organisations actively raising. An Analyst AI that surfaces invisible risks, internal contradictions, and behavioural patterns — without ever speculating beyond the evidence.
Learn more → For Board MembersLive organisational dashboards from the startups where you sit. Critical alerts when the signal shifts. Private notes only you can see. The Analyst AI on demand.
Learn more →Hallucination-free by architectural design. Literature-anchored on stage-relevant academic sources. The first AI agents in venture intelligence that cannot fabricate a KPI, capitulate under pressure, or speculate beyond evidence.
Anchored in your live KPI data. Surfaces leverage, prescribes specific actions, frames stage-appropriate priorities. Never makes outcome promises.
Reads the organisational signal — invisible risks, internal contradictions, behavioural patterns. Holds its position under pressure. Cites only the KPI evidence the data actually surfaces.
Venture capital applies rigorous quantitative models to financial risk. But when evaluating the organisational and leadership dimensions of a startup, the same investors rely almost entirely on unstructured methods — founder interviews, gut instinct, and collective impressions.
The evidence is clear: over 45% of early-stage failures are directly attributable to team dysfunction, leadership gaps, and premature scaling — not financial mismanagement. Yet these are precisely the risks that receive the least analytical rigor. EPIC Alliance closes this gap.
Four organisational dimensions, each empirically tied to a documented startup failure mode. Together they cover the full surface of non-financial risk in early-stage ventures.
Develop people, delegate effectively, build accountable cultures. Maps onto the wrong-team and disharmony failure modes.
Communicate effectively with investors, partners, customers. The dimension most often underweighted by founder-centric assessments.
Intellectual depth, market signal integration, rapid prototyping. The capacity to update direction when reality demands it.
Translate strategic intention into operational execution: OKR discipline, decision-making, customer obsession.
EPIC Compass synthesises the empirical literature on early-stage failure causation — meta-analysing post-mortem data on close to 4,000 startups across CB Insights, Startup Genome, Fractl, and peer-reviewed systematic reviews — into a single stage-calibrated diagnostic instrument.
EPIC Alliance was founded on a single conviction: organisational risk is both measurable and systematically underassessed — and the failure to measure it has material consequences for investment outcomes.
Co-founded by two ICF-certified practitioners with deep experience at the intersection of organisational leadership and early-stage finance. Based in Luxembourg, with the ambition to become the reference assessment standard across European business angel networks and accelerators.
The long-term vision: a living organisational score, continuously updated through data integrations and guided by intelligent coaching — the FICO score for founders.
A 4-page overview of the EPIC framework — pillars, stage calibration principle, KPI selection methodology.
Download summary →32-page academic working paper — empirical grounding, scoring architecture, validation strategy. Available to qualified partners.
Request the paper →For partnership discussions, institutional licences, or any questions on the framework.
team@epic-alliance.io →EPIC Compass takes about 40 minutes. Stage-calibrated, benchmarked against your cohort, structured for investor conversations.