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Angel-investor deal screening and scoring — an interactive web app that turns a proven Excel-based diligence methodology into a personal investment model, scoring individual deals against the investor's own capacity, knowledge, and stage preferences with a green/yellow/red signal · Next.js 14 (App Router) + Tailwind CSS + shadcn/ui — a mobile-responsive investor-facing app with a profile builder (capacity, industry knowledge, stage/structure preferences) and a deal-scoring workflow that returns a green/yellow/red signal across 21 sectors · PostgreSQL (Neon) for investor profiles, deals, and scoring history · NextAuth v5 with magic-link (passwordless) authentication · No AI in the scoring path by design — the score is transparent, deterministic calculator logic so the investor can see exactly why a deal lights up red; an investor who can't audit the signal won't trust it · Deployed on the Silverback VelocityStack (dedicated client account, mandatory cost-attribution tagging, budget alarm), billing code SBC-2026-PIM-001
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Day 31 — the Investing arc finishes

PIM — Personal Investment Model is live at pim.compassionalistacademy.com. It converts Karen Rands’ angel-investor deal-screening methodology — two decades of diligence discipline taught through the Compassionalist Academy — into an interactive web app. PIM is one of five builds that earned a slot the 30-day run couldn’t hold; it ships in the Day 31 epilogue and closes the Investing arc.

The problem

Angel investors lose money in a predictable way: they back the founder they like, in the industry they happen to know, at the valuation they were offered — and call it instinct. The disciplined ones screen every deal against their own criteria first. Karen Rands has taught that screen for twenty years, and it worked — but it lived in an Excel workbook, and a workbook doesn’t scale a methodology, enforce it under pressure, or travel past the people Karen can personally train.

The single most common way an angel check goes to zero is an investor abandoning their own stated criteria the moment a charismatic founder walks in. PIM exists to make that harder.

What PIM does

You build your investor profile first — real capital capacity, the industries you genuinely understand, the deal stages and structures you’re equipped to underwrite. Then you score individual deals against your criteria across 21 sectors and get a single green / yellow / red signal. The question PIM answers isn’t “is this a good company” in the abstract. It’s “is this a good company for you to write a check into.”

The architecture — transparent on purpose

The most important design decision in PIM is what’s not in it. There is no AI in the scoring path. The score is deterministic, auditable calculator logic, because the entire value of a discipline tool is that the investor can see exactly why the light is red. A black-box signal an investor can’t interrogate is a signal an investor will override. The stack is Next.js 14, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, PostgreSQL on Neon, and passwordless magic-link auth, deployed on the Silverback VelocityStack.

PIM does not give investment advice, predict returns, or treat a score as a recommendation. It enforces the investor’s own stated method, consistently, every time.

The operator is the founder

Karen Rands isn’t an advisor at 2% — she’s the methodology and the market. PIM is the software built around her workflow. That’s the operator-validated-founder pattern the entire Velocity run is built on: the domain expert sits at the table, not in the footnotes.

For investors

If you write angel checks — or you keep meaning to and freeze at the diligence step — build your profile and score your next deal before you take the meeting. The signal will tell you something your gut won’t. Live at pim.compassionalistacademy.com.

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