The performance problem
Every pitch is a performance, and a good founder is good at it, which is exactly why it's a poor instrument. You are looking at a curated artefact produced specifically for you, and the qualities you're actually underwriting — how they think under pressure, whether they change their mind when shown evidence, how they treat people who can't help them — are invisible in that room.
They are extremely visible in how someone asks a question in public and how they answer one for a stranger who has nothing to give them.
What you can see here
What a founder is working on now, in their own words. What they're stuck on. What they answer for other people, and how carefully. Which rooms they're in and what stage they're at.
It is a slower, truer signal than a deck and it exists whether or not they are currently raising, which means you see the version that isn't optimised for you. Nothing here is a proxy for diligence — it is the thing that makes you decide to start one.
Portfolio, and revenue you didn't have to take on trust
Portfolio tracking inside CHiiRO
Track the companies you've invested in from the same place you found them. One surface for discovery, diligence signal and portfolio — rather than a spreadsheet, a CRM and a separate deal-flow tool that don't talk to each other.
Read-only revenue verification
A founder can connect their own payment processor with a read-only credential. CHiiRO reads the revenue figure. CHiiRO never has the ability to move money.
A different kind of number
A figure that arrived via a read-only key from a payment processor is a different object from a figure in a slide. You know the difference. So do we.
Where this is early, plainly
The portfolio and the revenue-verification mechanism are built and deployed, and almost nobody has used them yet — there is no portfolio data, and no company has connected a processor. This page is not going to describe an active deal-flow product, because there isn't one.
What exists is the machinery and a network at the stage where the people in it are reachable. If you invest at pre-seed, the second half of that sentence is the interesting one.
What you get
Read how a founder thinks before they've decided what to tell you.
See a revenue figure that came from a read-only key rather than a slide.
Track a portfolio in the same place you found the company.
Know that nobody bought their way into your attention, because that isn't for sale.
Questions and answers
Q.What can investors see on CHiiRO?
How a founder asks and answers questions in communities, what they're working on in their own words, which rooms they're in and at what stage, and — if the founder has connected a payment processor — a revenue figure that arrived via a read-only credential rather than a slide.
Q.Does CHiiRO verify investors?
No. CHiiRO does not vet, accredit or verify investors. The only verification on the platform is an email-domain check, and it is described in exactly those terms wherever it appears. There is no badge implying otherwise.
Q.How does revenue verification work on CHiiRO?
A founder connects their own payment processor using a read-only credential. CHiiRO reads the revenue figure but never has the ability to move money. The mechanism is built and deployed; almost no company has connected a processor yet, and this page says so.
Q.Can investors pay for access to founders on CHiiRO?
No. CHiiRO does not sell access to founders, does not offer paid outreach and does not let anyone skip the connection gate. Reaching someone requires sending a connection request like every other member. They decide whether to accept.
Q.Is CHiiRO a deal-flow platform?
Not yet. The portfolio-tracking and revenue-verification machinery are built and deployed, but there is no active deal-flow product today. What exists is a network at the stage where the people in it are reachable, which matters most at pre-seed.