Get the yes. Free AI reviewer for startup applications
Make every answer sound impressive say what it is.
Placet reads your application the way a partner does: a score for every answer, red-pen notes tied to public advice, and rewrites you accept one by one. Your founders get reviewed too.
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How it works
Three passes with a red pen.
The same pass a sharp reader gives your application, measured against what experienced partners have said publicly they look for.
- 01
Paste
Answer the usual questions (50-character description, what you’re making, why you, progress, competitors) or paste a whole pitch. Add each founder’s background if you like.
Describe what your company does…
- 02
Get redlined
Every answer gets a score, what’s working, what to cut, and the principle behind each note, with a link to its public source.
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Accept and export
Keep the rewrites you like and your own words where you don’t, then copy or download the edited version.
Accepted
New · Founders and team
Partners read the team right after the idea.
Describe each founder: role, what they’ve built, full-time or not, how long you’ve known each other. You get a team score, the red flags a partner would spot (a missing technical cofounder, part-time founders, a cofounder you met last month) and rewritten founder answers you can accept.
Watch
Real pitches that worked.
25 pitches and pitch talks, embedded from their original channels, each with a note on why it works.
From the library
Read how real founders said it.
Under 50 characters
- AlterAccess control for multi-user agentsS25
- RespanOpen-source Rust AI gateway built around pluginsW24
- LaminarRL-trained model that finds errors in agent tracesS24
- ConsusLLM gateway for companies handling sensitive dataF24
- Agent37Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agentsF26
- MagnitudeSelf-optimizing inference engine for agentsS25
Latest launches
- VespperSOTA Docx MCPF24
- Coverage CatUmbrella insurance via your personal agentS22
- SkillsyncAI chat sessions made portable across agentsW26
- MireyeInfrastructure for Physical World AI AgentsS26
- RonanRXPersonalized Peptides and GLP-1sS26
- Nori RoboticsA low-cost humanoid robot for developmentS26
Applications founders published
- DropboxFile sync that 'just works' for normal people, not just hackers.S07
- GitLabOpen source software to collaborate on code.W15
- PaystackAPIs and tools to enable merchants accept payments in African markets.W16
- MixpanelProduct analytics: the 2009 application, shared by the co-founder.S09
- Mixpanel (founder's tips thread)Founder thread: what he'd tell applicants after sharing the app.S09
- Clearly AISoftware security and privacy reviews using AI.
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