When humans get in the way
Every off-thesis discovery call costs a VC partner over $750 in non-renewable time. The industry has never priced this, and the math reveals that the discovery call itself has become the most expensive line item in the dealflow problem.
The dealflow noise problem is real. But the filters investors built to manage it are now actively selecting against the best founders. Here’s why that’s structurally inevitable.
Generative AI made pitch decks look identical and cold email volume explode, destroying the filters investors relied on to find good deals. Here’s why the only fix is AI evaluating AI, before any human opens a calendar.