Solutions // Accelerators
One standard for the whole cohort.
For a startup accelerator, askOdin is two products used as one piece of software. Founders audit their decks in Crucible under your cohort tag. Your team logs into Clarity and reviews every analysis side by side, on the same scale, before demo day rather than after it.
// The Cohort Problem
Forty decks, read forty different ways.
A program team reads every deck in the cohort, usually in the evenings, usually against a deadline. The fifth deck gets a sharper read than the thirty-fifth. Feedback depends on who read it and when. By demo day, the flaws a partner will find in the first ten minutes are still in some of the decks, because nobody had the hours to find them all. That is not a diligence problem. It is an arithmetic one.
// How It Works
Crucible for the founders. Clarity for the program.
The same engine sits behind both. The founder gets a forensic read of their own deck in under three minutes; the program gets the whole cohort in one view.
CLAIM 01
Founders join with your cohort tag
Each founder in the program runs their deck through Crucible under your cohort tag. Crucible is free for founders. Joining with the tag is how a founder shares their audits with your program.
CLAIM 02
Every deck, audited the same way
The same five scored pillars and three audit checks, the same 0–100 Clarity Score, the same rules for every company in the cohort. A founder who fixes a flaw and re-runs sees the score move for a reason they can point to.
CLAIM 03
Your team triages the cohort in Clarity
Program managers and partners log into Clarity, where the Cohort View benchmarks and triages the whole batch at once across the five scored pillars: where each company is weak, what changed between runs, and which founders need time before demo day.
// What Changes
Mentor time goes where the deck is actually weak.
When every deck is scored against the same pillars, the conversation with a founder starts from a finding rather than an impression: the business model does not close at the stated price, the market claim and the model disagree, the raise does not fund the plan. Mentors spend the hour on the thing that breaks, not on finding it.
The cohort view also shows the program something no single read can: which weaknesses are common across the batch and which are one company's problem. In our benchmark of 2,488 decks, founders described the problem well and the business model badly. A cohort usually looks the same, and it is worth knowing before demo day.
Founders who join with your tag are sharing their audits with your program; that is the mechanism, and it should be said plainly at onboarding. Raw documents are held no longer than 30 days under a documented retention ceiling and never used for training — see the Security Protocol.
// OBJECTION HANDLING
Accelerator FAQ
What is startup accelerator software for, in askOdin's case?
Running one diligence standard across a whole cohort. Founders audit their own decks in Crucible; the program sees every result in Clarity. It replaces a stack of decks read in a different frame of mind each evening with scores that are comparable across companies and across runs.
Do founders pay?
No. Crucible is free for founders. The program's access to Clarity is arranged with us directly.
What exactly does the program see?
The Crucible analyses of founders who joined with your cohort tag: the Clarity Score, the pillar breakdown, the brittle assumptions and the findings, each traced to where it sits in the deck. Founders who do not join with the tag are not visible to the program.
Does this replace our selection committee or mentors?
No. It tells the committee where each deck is structurally weak and leaves the judgement about the company, the founders and the fit with the people who make it. What it removes is the part of the week spent finding the same flaw in forty decks by hand.
What happens to the decks?
Raw documents are held no longer than 30 days under a documented retention ceiling and are never used to train a model. The Security Protocol labels each control by what it is today: stated policy, implemented, or evidenced.
Run the next cohort on one standard.
Tell us the size of the cohort and the date of demo day. We will set up the tag and the program's access.