For Founders

Diagnose your venture before investors do.

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.

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What you receive

What you receive in about 40 minutes.

A structured diagnostic — four sections, fully calibrated to your stage of maturity.

Global score + pillar breakdown

A composite score out of 100 with detailed scores across the four EPIC pillars — calibrated against your maturity stage.

5 priority gaps, ranked by impact

The organisational gaps most likely to slow your growth or hurt your raise — with a concrete action plan for each.

Cohort benchmark

Where you stand relative to indicative averages for your stage — across all four pillars.

Demonstrated strengths to leverage

The KPIs where you are already at peak performance — and how to turn them into competitive advantages.

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No signup. No form. Direct access.

67/100

EPIC Profile · Seed Stage

Practitioner

Structured and improving. Ready for investor scrutiny with targeted work on two gaps.

E Empower

P Present

I Innovate

C Commit

Top priority gaps

Present

Written Communication & Thought Leadership

32/100

Commit

OKR Execution Rate

41/100

Empower

Delegation & Trust Architecture

45/100

Your journey

From assessment to action — a continuous loop.

Not a one-shot diagnostic. A platform that stays relevant from your first calibration to your investor conversations and board updates.

Take the assessment

~40 min, stage-calibrated, instant report.

Work with EPIC Coach AI

Weekly progress conversations anchored in your live KPI data.

Reassess every quarter

Track delta scores, see what shifted, update your priorities.

Share with investors when ready

Opt in to Connect to expose your scorecard. Track who viewed your profile.

Invite up to 3 board members

Live access to your dashboard between board meetings, with critical alerts on assessment shifts.

Your weekly companion

EPIC Coach AI.

Built for founders. Developmental, not fatalistic. Anchored in your live KPI data.

What it does well

Surfaces your highest-leverage gap — not the longest list of issues.
Prescribes specific actions for the current week, not generic advice.
Frames stage-appropriate priorities — Pre-Seed concerns are not Series A concerns.
Holds discipline under pressure — never makes outcome promises, never substitutes for your strategic decisions.
Streams responses with a 3-7s opener — feels like a real conversation, not a wait.

What's free right now

Free for founders until December 31, 2026.

All Pioneer founders get free access to the full assessment, the live scorecard, EPIC Coach AI, and EPIC Analyst AI as a Pioneer bonus — from now until Dec 31, 2026.
Founders who join during Pioneer Period become Founding Members — a status that keeps permanent benefits when standard plans launch on January 1, 2027.
Founding Members keep 2 board member seats for life in Coach (vs 1 seat for new subscribers post-launch) and pay 50% off Coach for 12 months.

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Built on the literature

~4,000 startup post-mortems. 51 filtered KPIs. One stage-calibrated instrument.

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.

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Diagnose where you stand. In about 40 minutes.

Stage-calibrated, benchmarked against your cohort, structured for investor conversations.

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