Sep 30, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm<\/p>\n
Investors evaluate the story and the numbers together \u2014 and most first decks fail because the two don’t line up. This session builds the financial foundation, use-of-funds plan, and pitch deck as one connected package, including how to state your AI advantage explicitly rather than leaving investors to infer it.<\/p>\n
**What We’ll Cover**<\/p>\n
* Building an 18-month forecast grounded in real assumptions
\n* Use of funds: tying every dollar requested to a specific milestone
\n* Unit economics, burn, and runway investors will ask about
\n* Deck structure: what belongs on each slide and what to cut
\n* Articulating an AI moat \u2014 what’s defensible versus what’s just tooling
\n* Aligning the narrative and the numbers so they reinforce each other<\/p>\n
**Who Should Attend**
\nMissouri founders preparing to pitch, revising a deck that isn’t landing, or assembling investor materials for the first time.<\/p>\n
**What You’ll Leave With**<\/p>\n
* A use-of-funds and 18-month forecast
\n* A first-draft investor deck
\n* An articulated AI moat<\/p>\n
Part of the Show-Me Founders Series.<\/p>\n
*This project is supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SSBCI-21031-0104 awarded to the State of Missouri by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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