The Ask Calculator
Enter your burn, your milestone and the amount you plan to ask for. You see the real number your company needs, the gap, and the exact sentence an investor will say when they do the same math.
While you decide, another founder is booking the meeting you want.
Investor meetings on your calendar?
Own the room BEFORE you enter.
Thursday, 2 p.m. The investor divides your ask by your burn before slide three, then leans back: "What happens if you raise half?" Instead of burning another meeting - put your data and your toughest questions here first, and then go and RAISE.
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The Round Ready Engine is a $67 self-service tool. It calculates the raise your milestone really needs and trains your answers to ten hard investor questions with the FLIP method.
Four ways a warm meeting dies.
You picked the ask because it felt reasonable. REASONABLE TO WHOM? Name the milestone it buys.
What one bad meeting costs.
A warm intro is spent once. An investor who passes rarely takes a second meeting this round. Every unprepared conversation burns a name on a short list.
Two tools. One method. Built from the rooms I sat in.
The Hard Question Lab
Ten questions investors use to test a founder. You build each answer with my FLIP method: Face, Link, Illustrate, Pivot. The lab flags the words that make you sound unsure, live, while you write.
Everything inside
- The Ask Calculator, tied to your next value changing milestone
- Ten hard investor questions, with what each one really tests
- The FLIP answer builder with live weak phrase checks
- A copy ready answer for every question you prepare
- Your work saved on your device. Nothing is uploaded
- Lifetime access to the version you buy
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Who built this.
- 19 years
- in capital raising and startup advisory
- 500+
- projects across fundraising, strategy and presentation work
- $220K+
- earned through Upwork and Fiverr, independently verified
Pitched on the 4YFN stage at MWC Barcelona 2023.
“Anna's work has directly impacted my company's ability to present a new program in a clear and concise manner that is immediately understood.”
“Anna is fantastic. The quality of the design work was excellent and she went out of her way to understand our concept and to help us improve our content.”
“Anna continues to be our 'go-to' when we have a presentation that needs to impress.”
“We've been working with Anna for the past 2.5 years on dozens of projects... With her presentation, we were able to close new deals, onboard new customers and deliver outstanding training materials.”
On stage and on air: 4YFN, MWC Barcelona 2023 · The She Leads Podcast · meet.capital Podcast · Africa FounderHaus · Entrepreneur Mirror
Why ChatGPT can't give you this.
AI will write you a confident answer. It has no idea which answer makes an investor stop listening.
These tools encode what I learned in conversations with hundreds of investors and donors, across 19 years of raising capital.
The calculator does the math investors do in their head. The lab trains the reflex they test with silence.
Questions founders ask first.
What is the Round Ready Engine?
- A self-service tool for founders preparing a raise. It has an Ask Calculator that checks your raise against your next milestone, and a Hard Question Lab that trains your answers to ten investor questions with the FLIP method. One payment of $67.
Who is it for?
- Founders and founding teams preparing a pre-seed, seed or angel round, or already in investor meetings, who want to walk in knowing their number and their answers.
Do you see my numbers or answers?
- No. Everything you enter stays in your browser on your device. Nothing is uploaded or stored on this site.
Can I do this with ChatGPT or Claude?
- A chatbot writes answers. This engine checks your ask with investor math and trains the answers against the words that lose investors, based on 19 years of fundraising work.
Will this get me funded?
- No tool can promise that. The engine removes two of the most common reasons a meeting goes cold: an ask that doesn't add up, and an answer that sounds unsure.
$67
Own the room BEFORE you enter.
Secure Stripe checkout. Opens on this page. Access starts the second you pay.
When you want my eyes on it.
Bring your prepared answers. I tell you which ones hold and which one will cost you the room.
A written read of the full deck within 72 hours of receiving it.
Educational tools. They do not predict or guarantee funding and are not legal, tax or investment advice.