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 standardised organisational risk signal — structured, comparable, and stage-calibrated — at every moment in the investment lifecycle where leadership risk matters.
Due diligence · Deal flow · Portfolio monitoring · Follow-on decisions
Access EPIC Connect →Understand the organisational health of your venture and where it sits on the maturity curve — before investors ask. No consultant. No scheduling. Instant.
51 KPIs · 4 pillars · Stage-calibrated · Instant structured report
Start EPIC Compass →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.
"Most founders discover their organisational gaps in the due diligence room. By then, the terms have already changed."
EPIC Compass is built to close this gap — providing a structured, comparable, and stage-calibrated scorecard before founders ever enter the room.
EPIC Connect is the first standardised rating instrument for organisational risk in early-stage ventures — giving investors a structured signal at every moment where that risk matters.
A structured diagnostic — four sections, fully calibrated to your stage of maturity.
Not a one-shot diagnostic. A platform that stays relevant across the full lifecycle of your organisation.
Four pillars. 51 KPIs. Calibrated to your stage. The same analytical rigour investors would want — without a consultant, without scheduling, without delay.
Four dimensions that together cover the full organisational risk landscape of an early-stage venture.
People development, delegation, psychological health, and the organisational systems through which leadership is exercised and distributed as the company scales.
Pitch clarity, investor relations, strategic storytelling, and the organisation's capacity to attract capital, talent, partners, and customers through credible communication.
Intellectual depth, market signal integration, prototyping speed, and the organisation's capacity to learn and adapt faster than the competition evolves.
OKR completion, decision quality, financial discipline, and the organisation's reliable capacity to convert strategic intent into operational result — at scale.
A Pre-Seed founder is not penalised for the absence of traction metrics. A Series A company is held to a higher standard. The same question — assessed correctly.
From individual assessment to collective intelligence — a shared language for organisational performance across the full investment ecosystem.
A 51-KPI organisational assessment, stage-calibrated across 5 maturity levels. Structured, instant, and benchmarked against your stage cohort.
A bilateral intelligence layer connecting organisations seeking funding with investors in search of organisationally qualified deal flow.
ICF-certified coach certification built on the EPIC framework — the human layer of the ecosystem, connecting practitioners with the assessment methodology.
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.
EPIC Compass is in active deployment. The 51 KPIs were selected through rigorous filtration: empirical grounding in organisational research, relevance to investor decision-making, measurability without external audit, and discriminating power across maturity stages.
"Venture capital applies rigorous models to the dimensions of risk easiest to measure, while accepting much higher uncertainty about the dimensions that matter most."
Built by ICF-certified practitioners with deep experience at the intersection of organisational leadership and early-stage finance. The instrument is live and improving with every assessment completed.
The long-term vision: a living organisational score, continuously updated through data integrations and guided by intelligent coaching — the FICO score for founders.
To bring the same analytical rigor to organisational and leadership risk that investors already apply to financial risk — starting with early-stage ventures in Europe.
A 4-page overview of the EPIC framework — the four pillars, stage calibration principle, and KPI selection methodology.
The complete 32-page academic working paper — empirical grounding, scoring architecture, and validation strategy. Available to qualified partners on request.
Built in one of Europe's most active early-stage ecosystems — with the ambition to become the reference assessment standard across European BA networks and accelerators.
EPIC Compass takes 20 minutes. Stage-calibrated, benchmarked against your cohort, and structured for investor conversations.