Early Access

Always
Diligence-
Ready

Know exactly where your startup stands before an investor does. Talos scores your operational readiness and tells you precisely what to fix.

8
Categories
40+
Graded items
0–100
Score range
Talos Score
71
/ 100
Mostly Ready
Certificate of Incorporation
Complete
Cap Table — Carta
Complete
IP Assignment Agreements
Incomplete
Financial Model
Outdated
Data Room
Missing
Score jumps to 91
Close your top 5 gaps — 3 weeks of work
24 investors match
Seed · B2B SaaS · actively deploying
Corporate Foundation Fundraising Materials Legal Hygiene Compliance & Privacy Financial Readiness HR & People Governance Risk Management Corporate Foundation Fundraising Materials Legal Hygiene Compliance & Privacy Financial Readiness HR & People Governance Risk Management
How it works

From gap to ready,
before anyone asks.

Step 01
Profile your company in 10 questions
Stage, industry, flags. Talos builds a personalized readiness profile — not a generic checklist.
Pre-seed
Seed
Series A
Step 02
0–100
Your Talos Score
Weighted by stage and sector. 8 categories, 40+ graded items.
Score bands
Diligence-Ready 85–100
Mostly Ready 70–84
Significant Gaps 50–69
Not Ready 30–49
Foundational 0–29
Step 03
Top 5
Gaps to Close
Ranked by investor impact and effort. Each item shows the risk and projected score improvement.
Effort scale
Most fixes take days, not months
Low — 1–3 days
Medium — 1–2 weeks
High — 1–3 months
Step 04
Raise with confidence
Clean data room, no gaps, score above 85. Walk into a term sheet without scrambling.
Investor Matching
24 investors match your profile right now
Curated, verified investors actively writing checks — filtered by stage, sector, and raise size.
Document Vault
One-click data room
Upload once, auto-organized. Share with investors in minutes, not weeks.
The Talos Score

Your operational credit score

Drag the slider. Watch your readiness change in real time.

talosai.ac — Readiness Dashboard
Talos Score
47
/ 100
Not Ready
Premature to fundraise. Plan for 6–8 weeks first.
Simulate your score47 / 100
Platform

Everything before they ask.

I
Personalized Readiness Score
Weighted by stage and sector. A pre-seed B2C app isn't graded on SOC 2. A Series A fintech is. Your score reflects your actual situation.
II
Gap Analysis & Punch List
Top gaps sorted by investor impact and effort to close. See exactly what to do next and what it's worth to your score.
III
Document Vault
Upload once, organized automatically. Corporate docs, SAFEs, cap table, contracts — one clean categorized vault.
IV
One-Click Data Room
When a term sheet arrives, share a perfectly organized data room in minutes. Role-based access, no scrambling.
V
Investor CRM
Track your pipeline, log every conversation, set follow-up reminders. Know where every investor stands at all times.
VI
Investor Matching
Curated, verified investors actively writing checks — filtered by stage, sector, and raise size. Not scraped from Crunchbase.
Early Access

Built at Berkeley.
For founders who move fast.

Talos is in active development. Join the waitlist or take the free assessment to shape what we build.

Founder Survey · 2 minutes

Help us build
something real

We're validating Talos with founders before we build. No pitch — just honest questions about whether this problem is worth solving.

Want to see your score first?
Take the free 5-minute readiness assessment. Get a Talos Score, a band rating, and your top 5 gaps — no account required.
Get My Score
or fill out the survey below
What stage is your company?
Pre-seed
Seed
Series A
Not yet incorporated
Have you been through investor diligence before?
Yes — and it was painful
Yes — it went fine
Not yet — fundraising soon
Not yet — not raising soon
What's the hardest part of fundraise prep right now?
Knowing which documents I need and whether they're complete
Building a financial model I can actually defend
Finding the right investors to reach out to
Tracking investor conversations and follow-ups
All of the above
A readiness score that tells you what's missing before an investor asks — how useful?
Very useful — I'd check it regularly
Somewhat useful — I'd use it before a raise
Not sure — depends on what it covers
Not useful for me
What would you pay monthly? (Score + document vault + investor CRM)
Nothing — should be free
Up to $49/month
Up to $99/month
Up to $299/month
More — if it saves me real legal fees
Anything you'd want Talos to cover? (optional)
Email — for early access or a follow-up call (optional)

No spam. No pitch. Just building something real.

You're on the list.

Thank you — your answers are directly shaping what Talos becomes.
We'll be in touch as we approach launch.

talosai.ac

About Talos

Built at Berkeley.
For founders who
move fast.

Talos was built from a simple observation: most founders don't know what they don't know until an investor's diligence request lands in their inbox and they have 48 hours to produce documents they've never organized.

The result is weeks of scrambling, thousands in legal fees, and a data room that signals to every investor reading it that the company isn't as buttoned-up as they thought.

We built Talos to change that. A readiness score that works like an operational credit score — updated in real time, personalized to your stage and sector, telling you exactly what to fix before anyone asks.

Why Talos
Talos is named after the bronze automaton of Greek mythology — the guardian forged by Hephaestus to patrol and protect the island of Crete. We thought that was the right name for a platform built to guard your company's operational foundation.

We're an early-stage startup out of UC Berkeley, currently in founder validation. We're talking to founders before we build to make sure we're solving a real problem, not an imaginary one.

RO
Rafael Ochoa
Founder · Talos
Background in banking and finance. Building Talos out of UC Berkeley to solve the operational readiness problem he watched founders run into firsthand — not as a theory, but as a repeating pattern.
Contact

Let's
talk.

We're talking to founders right now. Share feedback, book a validation call, or just ask what we're building — reach out directly.

Email
rafael@talosai.ac
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