FOUNDERSCREENTYX^™

A company inherits the nervous system of its founder. Every investor reads the deck, the market, the metrics — and misses the only asset actually at risk: whether the person at the origin can hold the weight the venture is about to generate. The failure mode is specific: the architecture that carried the founder to the first raise begins bracing instead of generating somewhere past it — payroll, a board, the third crisis in the same week — and the company quietly organizes itself around the founder's compensations long before anyone names them. By the time it shows in the numbers, it has been in the strokes for years. This reads the origin before the weight arrives: what the founder is built to generate, where under load they will not hold, and what to build around both.