02 · Paid offer
The CFO-run deep audit.
When the two-minute score comes back Yellow or Red, the deep audit is a one-week engagement hand-run by a CFO that moves you to Green before you email a single VC. Fixed scope, 14-day re-score included.
Free fundraise readiness audit
Walk into your raise meeting like you've done this 50 times.
A two-minute diagnostic returns a Green, Yellow or Red readiness score, the three specific gaps holding your round back, and a concrete plan to close them, before you email a single VC.
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Sample outputFundraising Readiness Audit
Photonic Quantum · Series A prep
Overall: Yellow, 67 / 100 · 8 dimensions reviewed
- Narrative coherence Green
- Financial model integrity Yellow
- Cap table hygiene Red
- Unit economics clarity Yellow
- Tech-to-commercial story Green
- Defensibility articulation Yellow
- Data room organisation Red
- Deck design & flow Green
01 · What the audit returns
A score, the gaps, and a plan.
A Green / Yellow / Red score
An honest read on whether your raise is ready to start, or whether pitching now would burn warm intros.
Your three real gaps
The specific weak points a quantum VC catches in the first meeting, named precisely, not generic advice.
A plan to close them
What to fix, in what order, with the effort each one takes. Enough to act on the same day.
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03 · Paid offer
What's included.
Eight diligence dimensions, every one with a Red/Yellow/Green verdict and the exact line-items that need fixing. No vague hand-waves.
8-dimension scorecard
Narrative, model, cap table, unit economics, tech-to-commercial story, defensibility, data room, deck flow. Each scored individually.
Line-item remediation plan
What to fix, in what order, with effort estimate per item. Prioritised by what blocks a VC in slides 1 to 10.
60-min workshop
Live debrief with you, your CTO, and your finance lead if you have one. Q&A, prioritisation, and your first 3 fixes locked in.
Model integrity check
Grant revenue separated from commercial, burn modelled, runway tested under 3 scenarios. Your spreadsheet, our hands.
Investor Q&A rehearsal
The 12 toughest questions a quantum-active VC will ask you, with our take on the right answers. You leave armed.
14-day re-score
Two weeks after delivery, we re-run the scorecard on your fixed materials. Free. So you know you actually moved the needle.
04 · Paid offer
How it works.
Seven days. No surprise scope creep. We work in parallel so you keep building.
- 01 Day 1 · Kickoff
30-min call to align on what you’re raising and what’s at stake
You share access to deck, model, data room. We sign an NDA before anything moves. We’d rather waste 20 minutes upfront than a week on the wrong angle.
- 02 Day 2 to 4 · Deep dive
We read everything, twice, with the eye of a Series A lead
Model walked line by line. Data room cross-checked against a 60-item investor checklist. Deck stress-tested against your closest comparable raise.
- 03 Day 5 to 6 · Synthesis
We draft the scorecard and the remediation plan
Every dimension gets a verdict and a list of fixes. We rank them by VC-blocking severity, not by how easy they are.
- 04 Day 7 · Delivery
60-min workshop, PDF report, and a fix-it kanban
You walk out with the scorecard, the remediation plan, and a Notion-ready board so your team can execute the next 4 weeks without losing momentum.
- 05 Day 21 · Re-score
Two weeks later, we re-run the scorecard, free
Same 8 dimensions, fresh verdict. If you crossed into Green, you can immediately unlock the VC-Fit Report. If not, we tell you what’s still missing.
05 · Paid offer
Common questions.
Is this just consulting? What makes it different?
Consulting tells you what to do. We tell you what’s wrong, with line-item evidence, and we hand you the fix-it board so your team executes. We’ve sat in dozens of VC pitches as the finance person. We know what kills deals at slide 4.
Can you sign an NDA before we share materials?
Yes, by default. Every audit starts with our standard NDA, and we’ll sign yours if you prefer. Your deck and model stay in our encrypted vault for 60 days post-delivery, then we delete.
What if we’re already past the model-fixing stage?
If you score Green on day 7, you skip the remediation phase and go straight to the VC-Fit Report. We’ll credit 100% of the audit price toward your first month of CFO retainer if that’s the path you want.
Why a fixed price, not a percentage of raise?
A percentage misaligns us from day one, we’d be incentivised to push you to raise even when you shouldn’t. We charge fixed because our job is honesty, not yes-man.
Who actually does the work?
Gaetan Brillaud, Fractal’s founder and ex-CFO of two raises. No juniors, no offshore, no "associate review". You get the person whose name is on the door.
Do you do this for non-quantum founders?
We’ve done it for cleantech and bio. The 8-dimension framework holds, but our pattern recognition is sharpest for quantum because that’s where we focus 80% of our deal flow. Ask us in the intro call if it’s a fit.
06 · The other services
When you want an expert hand on the raise.
Quantum VC-Fit Report
12 quantum-active funds ranked against your specific raise, with pitch angles, warm intros and red flags. 48-hour turnaround.
$500 fixed See the VC-Fit Report
Quantum Fractional CFO
Monthly finance operations for quantum founders: close, KPI dashboard, board decks, investor updates.
From $3,500 / month See the Fractional CFO
Free fundraise readiness audit
Free
A score, the gaps, and a plan.
A two-minute diagnostic returns a Green, Yellow or Red readiness score, the three specific gaps holding your round back, and a concrete plan to close them, before you email a single VC.
No account, no email required.
Paid offer · Book the Audit
$4,500 all-in, 1 week
One founder, one week, one CFO.
Pay upfront, get the kickoff call within 48 hours, deliverable on day 7. 14-day re-score included free.
- NDA signed before access
- Refund if we miss day 7
- 14-day re-score included