As a solo founder, how do you handle fundraising while still running the company?
The unglamorous answer? You don't. You either run your company or you fundraise. You can't do both. One of them will fail.
I’m a solo technical founder, and 3 months ago, I decided to raise a pre-seed round. I quickly learned that VCs don't just want a pitch deck. They want a "data room."
My "data room" was a chaotic mess of Google Drive folders with names like "Final_v2_UPDATED" and "old_projections."
I had a key meeting with a VC in 48 hours. He emailed me, "Looking forward to it. Please send over the data room with your GTM strategy, 6-month product roadmap, and high-level financial projections."
My heart sank. That wasn't a "data room"; that was a week of work. Work I'd have to do after my 12-hour day of coding and user support.
I was completely overwhelmed. I almost canceled the meeting.
Then I realized... I'm building an AI tool designed to automate exactly this kind of work. Why not use my own product?
I opened my own app, FlowTask. I just typed in a few prompts, one by one:
Generate a complete investor data room structure.
Create a 6-month product roadmap for a new B2B SaaS startup.
Write a Go-to-Market strategy doc for a productivity tool targeting founders.
Build a simple pre-seed financial projection table.
In less than 10 minutes, my C1 AI architect had generated the entire data room.
It wasn't just text. It was a clean, professional, multi-page workspace with:
A main Investor Hub page.
A Product Roadmap doc.
A GTM Strategy doc.
An Interactive Table for the financials.
All I had to do was go in and edit the details. I finished the entire data room before midnight. I spent the next day running my business.
I got the meeting. And the VC's first comment was, "This is one of the cleanest, most professional data rooms I've seen from a pre-seed founder."
That's when I knew this was more than a product. It's a "second brain" for founders.
My takeaway: As founders, we're paid to have the vision. We shouldn't be getting paid to be admins. My C1 AI (which is the core of FlowTask) acts as my admin, my project manager, and my strategist, letting me be the founder.
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