AI-Powered Due Diligence: The VC Prompt Library for Pre-Seed & Seed Analysis 💡

11 expert-grade prompts that turn raw startup data into institutional-quality analysis

Most investors doing pre-seed and seed due diligence are making the same mistake:

Spending 10 days gathering information and 10 minutes making a decision.

AI flips that equation.

Not by replacing your judgment,

but by doing the heavy analytical lifting so you can spend your time where it actually matters:

Evaluating the founder, stress-testing the thesis, and deciding whether you believe.

Here is what most people get wrong about AI-powered due diligence:

They ask vague questions and get vague answers.

“Analyse this startup” produces nothing useful.

What produces results is a structured, stage-specific prompt that gives the AI the right role, the right inputs, and the right output format to match.

That is exactly what we built.

The 22nd Century Frontier VC Due Diligence Playbook - Pre-Seed & Seed Edition

is a set of 11 optimised prompts covering every dimension of early-stage analysis:

✅ Market sizing with explicit TAM/SAM/SOM methodology

✅ Competitive landscape with moat scoring

✅ Founder assessment with conviction rating framework

✅ Unit economics built from sparse data

✅ PMF signals decoded from qualitative evidence

✅ Traction analysis weighted on rate of change, not absolutes

✅ Financial model logic validation

✅ Technical and IP risk assessment

✅ GTM motion fit for founder-led sales

✅ Exit scenario modelling with acquirer universe

✅ A final investment memo that synthesises everything

Each prompt includes a structured input template (so you know exactly what data to gather), the optimised prompt itself, an expected output structure to verify completeness, a hallucination safeguard, and a chain link to carry findings into the next analysis.

This is not a ChatGPT template pack.

Every prompt is calibrated for Pre-Seed and Seed stage,

where founder quality is weighted at 70%, and you are betting on potential, not proof.

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