In NUVC's scoring architecture, Deal Lens is a thesis re-weighting layer that sits on top of NuScore's 7 founder dimensions: Team, Problem & Market, Solution & Product, Traction, Financials, Risk & Fragility, and Conviction. Each dimension is scored 0–10 by the VCGrade v5.2 engine; Deal Lens adjusts the contribution weights so that the composite score reflects a specific fund's investment priorities rather than a generic average.
Each fund can configure up to 6 lens presets. A thesis-focused deep-tech fund, for example, will weight Solution & Product and Traction more heavily than Financials at pre-seed stage. A consumer fund might invert this, weighting Traction and Financials most heavily. The re-weighting happens post-scoring — the underlying 7 dimension scores do not change, only the aggregation — which means the same deck produces different Deal Lens scores for different fund mandates.
For founders, understanding their dimension profile is more actionable than the composite NuScore alone. A company with a 6.0 overall but an 8.5 on Problem & Market and a 3.5 on Traction has a fundamentally different story — and a different path to improvement — than a company with an evenly distributed 6.0. The score waterfall decomposition shows exactly which dimensions drove the composite.