Buyer-threshold breaker · €1 · One-time
Name one startup. Pay €1. Get a tweet-length teardown in 24 hours.
Three sentences. One number. Hand-written by the founder, not an LLM. The tightest possible read of an engineering team you already have a name for, for less than a vending-machine coffee.
What lands in your inbox
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Signal classification (one of five types)
Engineering hiring burst, infrastructure buildout, deploy frequency spike, framework migration, or deceleration, the same taxonomy the Dashboard uses, applied to the org you name.
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14-day acceleration delta
Two-period commit-velocity comparison with a confirmation window, the specific number that says whether the team is speeding up or coasting.
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The kicker insight
What the metric means for a check-writer right now. Not a generic comment, the specific edge or risk this signal implies for this team this month.
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Tweet-shaped output (≤280 chars)
Paste-able into Twitter/X, into your IC memo, into a partner Slack. Written by the founder, not auto-generated. Your name is never attached unless you ask.
Sample shape
[Acme AI] · Shipping Sprint · 14-day commit velocity +312% vs prior period (two-period confirmed). Three new infra repos in 9 days; first PRs from a former Anthropic eng. Read: pre-fundraise hardening, expect press 4-6 weeks out.
Real format. Real numbers when you name a real org.
One-time payment · No subscription · No upsell wall
€1
Stripe checkout. The startup name goes in the order field. Delivery to your inbox within 24h on weekdays. €1 credited toward the €7 First Look Pass if you upgrade within 7 days.
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FAQ
Why €1?
The €0-to-€7 jump is psychologically larger than the €7-to-€197 jump. €1 isn't margin, it's a buyer-threshold breaker. Once you've put a card on file at any price, the next purchase is no longer a first purchase. We'd rather you trial the signal at the lowest possible cost, see whether the output reads true on a startup you already know, and then decide if the €7 First Look Pass or the €49/mo Dashboard is worth a real budget line.
What's the deliverable, exactly?
One paragraph (≤280 characters) emailed to your inbox within 24h on weekdays. Three sentences: signal classification, the acceleration number, the kicker insight. No PDF. No CSV. No call. No follow-up. The whole point is brutal compression, if a signal can't be summarised in a tweet, it isn't a signal worth selling.
Can I name a private/stealth-mode startup?
If they have a public GitHub org, yes, that's exactly the point of the methodology. If their entire engineering footprint is private GitLab, no, there's no public commit data to analyse and we'll refund the €1 inside the same hour. Public GitHub orgs cover roughly 70% of YC, Antler, and Entrepreneur First batches by default.
What happens if I upgrade?
The €1 is credited toward the First Look Pass (€7) if you upgrade within 7 days. Reply to the delivery email with REQUEST CREDIT and the founder applies it manually. After the First Look, the standard €7 → Dashboard upgrade credit also applies, so you can effectively start at €1 and roll the spend forward into the subscription if the signal reads true.
Is this just an AI-generated summary?
No, the founder writes every Teardown personally. The metrics are computed from public GitHub data with the same engine as the Dashboard, but the kicker insight (the third sentence) is a human read on what the data implies for a buyer. AI is a poor judge of which signals matter to a fund's specific thesis; a human writing a tweet about a startup the buyer already knows is the highest-signal version of this product.
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