When Chadd Carr found himself advising startup teams, a pattern became impossible to ignore: founders were spending the majority of their time and energy on the things investors cared least about — and walking into rooms completely blind to the gaps that would get them passed on.

The insight wasn’t complicated. Investors evaluate startups against a consistent set of criteria. Team credibility. Market clarity. Traction signals. Financial discipline. Funding alignment. But most founders never see that rubric. They guess. They polish decks. They practice answers to questions investors never ask.

Chadd built PitchABC to fix that — first as a tool to scale his advisory practice, and eventually as a platform that could do for every founder what he was doing one at a time: show them exactly where they stood against investor-grade criteria, and give them a clear path to close the gaps before walking into a room.