Tactical playbooks for founders, pre-seed to Series A.
Fundraising and GTM. Curated fund lists, working tools, and tactical guides for the founders we build Causo for. Free, no signup.
The 101 playbooks we'd hand a pre-seed to Series A founder.
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Run your cold email through an LLM that's read 40,000 of them.
Cold Email Grader
Paste a draft. Get a rubric score, five specific fixes, and a rewrite.
Pitch Deck Roaster
Upload a PDF. Slide-by-slide feedback and the top three things to fix.
ICP Generator
Description, website, or deck in — a complete, visual Ideal Customer Profile out.
Deliverability Check
Your SPF, DKIM, DMARC setup — so your cold emails don't die in spam.
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549 guides organized the way founders actually search.
Fundraising basics
Core concepts every founder should know before raising.
Cold outreach
Emails, intros, and follow-ups that actually get investor replies.
Pitch deck
Structure, storytelling, and slide-by-slide guidance.
Valuation
Pre-money, post-money, dilution, and how VCs actually set terms.
Traction & metrics
What investors look for at each stage — and how to present it.
Legal & incorporation
Entity choice, founder agreements, cap table basics.
GTM & business model
Go-to-market, pricing, and monetization for venture-scale companies.
Sales
Founder-led B2B sales: qualification, discovery, pilots, pricing, pipeline, closing, and your first sales hire.
Team
Hiring, co-founders, equity splits, and early team building.
The VC process
What happens between first meeting and wire — and how to run it.
Regional guides
Fundraising playbooks by geography: US, UK, EU, MENA, Asia, LatAm.
Accelerators
How to get into and make the most of YC, Techstars, and the top startup accelerators — applications, deadlines, terms, and what they look for.
Post-raise
What to do after the round closes: reporting, governance, next round prep.
Startup setup
Technical setup every startup needs in the first 30 days — DNS, Stripe, analytics, deliverability.
Validation
Customer interviews, first conversations, and how to tell if the idea is real before you build.
Launch & growth
First 100 users, Product Hunt, and the playbooks for going from zero to traction.
Growth
Acquisition channels, paid + organic, what works at each stage.
Pricing
Pricing strategy, packaging, tiers, and what to charge when.
Retention
Churn, NPS, cohort retention, and how to keep customers paying.
Social presence
Building a founder audience on X, LinkedIn, Reddit — at every stage.
Launch platforms
Product Hunt, BetaList, Hacker News — what actually works in 2026.
AI for founders
Using AI to run your startup faster — investor research, outreach, content, hiring, and ops.
Industry playbooks
How to find and sell to the industries generic B2B databases miss: who the buyers are, where they are actually listed, and why standard contact data gets them wrong.
Run your whole raise through Causo.
When the playbooks turn into a raise: Causo connects to 1,000+ funds and your email, matches your stage and thesis to the best-fit partner at each firm, then drafts and sends hyper-specific emails.