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Raise amount and implied valuation from inflection point
A single headline raise number, the implied post-money valuation range, the investor ownership range it implies, and a flag for whether the ask sits inside the track-record-appropriate band, so the founder can answer 'how much are you raising?' with one defensible figure.
You receive: A pure function: given months-to-inflection, planned monthly burn at the run rate, a buffer percentage, the valuation multiple range (low/high), and the founder track-record tier, it returns raiseAmount, impliedValuationLow/High, investorOwnershipPctLow/High, and bandStatus ('in_band' | 'below_band' | 'above_band').
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Example
A sample of what this play produces. Your result is generated for your inputs.
Inputs
- Months To Inflection
- 20
- Planned Monthly Burn
- 40000
- Buffer Pct
- 25
- Multiple Low
- 3
- Multiple High
- 5
- Track Record Tier
- first_time
Arithmetic recomputed against the tasks.py compute_raise reference oracle, 2026-08-13: 20 months to the next inflection point times $40,000 planned monthly burn is $800,000, and a 25 percent slippage buffer brings the headline raise to $1,000,000. At the 3x to 5x raise-to-valuation rule the implied post-money valuation is $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, which puts investor ownership between 20.0 percent (at 5x) and 33.3 percent (at 3x). A $1,000,000 ask sits exactly at the top edge of the first-time founder credibility band ($250,000 to $1,000,000), so bandStatus is in_band. All figures are illustrative: STUD is pre-seed with no committed raise, and these inputs model the illustrative $1,000,000 raise target, not a real round.
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Scope of the check
What's verified: STUD verifies the raise/valuation/ownership arithmetic and the band-membership test against the supplied numbers. It does NOT tell the founder whether the raise is actually achievable, whether investors will agree to the valuation, or whether the inflection point is real; it computes the figures implied by the frozen inputs and the book's bands.
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