FOR ACCELERATORS · VCS · UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
Application Screener for accelerators, VCs, and university programs. Replace ten-minute manual reviews with eight-model AI evaluations: each applicant gets eight independent judgments (ADVANCE / REVIEW / DECLINE), dimension scores against your rubric, and a structured reviewer brief. Process 500 applications in roughly one hour. Rubric-based means consistent, auditable output — no reviewer fatigue, no unconscious-bias drift.
8 AI models evaluate each startup against your custom rubric. ADVANCE / REVIEW / DECLINE per applicant. Your reviewers focus on the top 10%.
For accelerators, VCs, and university programs screening startup applications. Solo founder? → Pricing
Reviewer-time leverage. A 500-application cohort that takes a panel several days to first-pass completes here in hours — cohort-volume pricing scales with batch size. Pilot programs typically report 5–20× reviewer-hour savings; we publish a sample report so you can verify on your own pile.
Team 25%, Market 25%, Innovation 20%, Feasibility 15%, Thesis Fit 15%. Or configure your own weights.
Paste text, upload CSV, or integrate via API. 100+ applications at once.
Each application gets 8 expert perspectives. No groupthink. No anchoring bias.
ADVANCE / REVIEW / DECLINE per applicant. Dimension scores. Red flags. Reviewer action items.
| Manual Review | FounderJury Screener | |
|---|---|---|
| Time per application | ~10–15 minutes | ~2 minutes |
| Reviewer cost (500-app batch) | Hundreds of reviewer hours | Cohort-volume pricing — see below |
| Perspectives per application | 1–2 reviewers | 8 AI models |
| Consistency | Varies by reviewer fatigue | Identical rubric every time |
| Bias | Unconscious bias risk | Rubric-based, auditable |
| Output | Notes in a spreadsheet | Structured brief + dimension scores |
Pre-screen 200+ batch applications. Your selection committee focuses on the top 20 instead of reading all 200.
Consistent first-pass on inbound deal flow. Structured scoring across all analysts.
Students submit startup ideas, get structured AI feedback. Professors save 80% of review time.
Standardized pre-evaluation of all submissions. Judges receive ranked shortlists with evidence.
Internal idea evaluation before budget allocation. More rigorous than committee gut feeling.
Second opinion on deals already in pipeline. 8 models stress-test what your analysts might miss.
FounderJury.ai is a "Pre-Seed VC in a Box." It provides the kind of brutal, data-driven feedback you usually only get after a failed pitch to a top-tier venture capital firm.
Founder, AgentWitness.ai
After running 3 debates: Trend Scout (48/100) → Solopreneur (62/100) → Team Battle (5/10 TIE)
2 screenings
100 screenings/month
Unlimited screenings
Unlimited + White-Label
Send applications via REST API. Get structured verdicts back. Plug into your existing ATS, CRM, or deal flow system.
POST /api/v1/validate
// Request
{
"application": {
"name": "ClimateTech Solutions",
"pitch": "AI-powered carbon credit verification...",
"team_size": 3,
"stage": "pre-seed"
},
"rubric": {
"team": 0.25,
"market": 0.25,
"innovation": 0.20,
"feasibility": 0.15,
"thesis_fit": 0.15
}
}
// Response
{
"verdict": "ADVANCE",
"confidence": 0.82,
"scores": {
"team": 7.2,
"market": 8.1,
"innovation": 7.8,
"feasibility": 6.4,
"thesis_fit": 7.0
},
"red_flags": ["Solo founder risk"],
"reviewer_actions": [
"Verify carbon credit partnerships",
"Request technical demo"
],
"models_agreed": 6,
"models_total": 8
}Hosted on Hetzner in Germany. Application content stays in the EU; no transfers to non-adequate third countries.
Standard data processing agreement on request before pilot kickoff. Sub-processor list provided.
Submitted applications are never used to train or fine-tune any model. Inference only.
Default 90-day retention; configurable down to per-cohort purge on completion. Export then delete.
SAML / OIDC for institutional SSO is planned for Q3 2026. Pre-roadmap pilots use email + 2FA.
Every evaluation, override, and download is logged. CSV export per cohort for internal review.
We are deliberately not displaying customer logos until we have ones we can show with permission. Instead: 3 institutions running a real cohort in 2026 can pilot the screener at no cost in exchange for structured feedback and a logo + quote we can publish.
Apply for a pilot slot →Hetzner data centers in Germany. Application content does not leave the EU. Transient API calls to model providers are allowed only after configurable PII redaction; full on-EU inference for sensitive cohorts is available on the Team tier.
Yes. We provide a standard consent paragraph for your application form covering AI-assisted evaluation, data residency, and retention. You can also adopt your own.
Each evaluation logs the rubric, the per-model verdict, and the points each model raised. We provide a dimension-level distribution per cohort so you can spot systematic skew before publishing decisions.
Always. The verdict is a recommendation; final ADVANCE / REVIEW / DECLINE is set by your reviewer. Overrides are logged with a free-text reason field for the audit trail.
Per-applicant brief in PDF, the full cohort as CSV (verdicts, dimension scores, red flags, reviewer actions), and an audit-log CSV. JSON export over API on Team tier.
Via the REST API documented above. Built-in connectors are not yet shipped; pilot partners get bespoke ingestion help during onboarding.
AI Recommendation Only — Human Decision Required
FounderJury provides structured AI evaluations to support human decision-making. All verdicts are recommendations. Final admissions, investment, and funding decisions must be made by qualified human reviewers. Every generated report includes this disclaimer.
An automated pre-review of incoming applications that generates an ADVANCE / REVIEW / DECLINE recommendation with structured reasoning. FounderJury's Institutional plan processes 500 applications in roughly one hour, with eight AI-model evaluations per applicant against the program's custom rubric, producing a ranked shortlist instead of unranked reviewer notes.
Your first 2 applications are free. No credit card required.