Roast My Startup: We Built a VC Intelligence Skill for AI Agents

We've been building NUVC — a VC-grade intelligence platform that scores pitch decks, matches founders with investors, and powers investment decisions for accelerators and fund managers.

Today, we're making that intelligence available to every AI agent on the planet.

Introducing the NUVC Skill for OpenClaw

The NUVC skill gives any OpenClaw agent access to three capabilities powered by the same AI engine behind 250+ VC investment memos:

• Score — VCGrade 0-10 rating across 5 investment dimensions (Problem & Market, Solution, Business Model, Traction, Team)
• Roast — Brutally honest but constructive feedback that reads like a candid VC partner conversation
• Analyze — Market sizing, competitive landscape, and financial analysis in seconds

Why "Roast My Startup"?

Most founders get polite, useless feedback. "Interesting idea." "Looks promising." "Maybe consider X."

That's not what you need before investing months of your life and thousands of dollars into building something. You need someone to tell you the truth — the way a partner at a VC fund would tell another partner behind closed doors.

That's what the roast does. It's the feedback you'd get if a VC partner had zero reason to be polite.

Here's what happens when you ask it to roast "Notion but for pets":

THE ROAST: Ah yes, because what the world desperately needed was a second brain for people who can't remember when to feed their dog. You've taken a $10B productivity tool and shrunk its TAM to "people who love spreadsheets AND animals."

THE REAL TALK: The core problem is real — pet owners do forget vet appointments. But you're competing with the Notes app, Google Calendar, and the 47 existing pet management apps on the App Store.

THE SILVER LINING: The veterinary record sharing angle is genuinely underserved. Reposition as "the pet health record that travels with your pet" and you'd have a B2B2C play that could work.

Harsh? Yes. But that last paragraph — the silver lining — is worth more than a month of polite feedback. It's the pivot that could save the business.

How It Works

Install the skill in OpenClaw:

openclaw install nuvc

Set your API key (free — 50 calls/month):

export NUVC_API_KEY=nuvc_your_key_here

Then just talk to your agent naturally:

• "Score my startup idea — a platform that helps indie hackers validate ideas before building"
• "Roast this — Uber for dog walking but with blockchain"
• "Analyze the market for AI-powered developer tools"

The responses come from the same scoring engine that powers NUVC's platform — trained on real VC investment patterns, not generic ChatGPT prompts.

Why We Built This

We believe startup intelligence should be infrastructure, not a luxury. The same way Stripe made payments accessible to every developer, we want VC-grade analysis accessible to every AI agent, every automation workflow, every founder tool.

The OpenClaw marketplace has 10,000+ skills — but zero for startup intelligence. Until now.

The Numbers

• Free tier: 50 AI calls/month (enough for ~15 scores or roasts per week)
• Cost per call: Less than 1/10th of a cent (we use GPT-4o-mini for cost efficiency)
• Response time: 2-5 seconds per analysis
• Zero dependencies: The skill is a single Node.js file with native fetch — no npm install needed

What's Next

This is the first step in making NUVC's intelligence layer available everywhere AI agents operate. The same API that powers this skill also supports:

• Direct API integration — Build startup scoring into your own product
• MCP server — Connect NUVC to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool
• Batch analysis — Score hundreds of ideas programmatically

Get your free API key at nuvc.ai/api-platform and start building.

Or just ask your OpenClaw agent to roast your idea. You might not like what it says — but you'll be better for hearing it.