Raise

A raise is a time-boxed campaign with a shape, not a list of contacts. This keeps the seven steps of one — decide, ready, list, run, diligence, close, hand over — and each step has a gate it will not let you skip: the gate is computed from what actually happened, never ticked, so it can tell you where you are rather than where you feel you are. It counts the funnel cumulatively, names the step that is leaking against what founders at your stage report, and names what it does not know BEFORE any of that — an investor who has not replied is quiet, never passed, because a pass is a thing somebody said. It drafts every email, intro ask, follow-up and update in your own voice and sends none of them. It never prints a figure it could not source, never sets your valuation, and never shares a document held until a term sheet.