What Your Agent Needs Before It Can Submit Your Pitch
If you point an AI agent at Pitch Protocol and it leaves out one of three required fields, the server returns a 400 and nothing moves forward. No pitch, no match, no meeting. That is not a bug. It is the whole point of building fundraising infrastructure for agents instead of humans: the system has to know exactly who is submitting, on whose behalf, and how to reach them before it will do anything else.
If you are actively raising right now, that detail matters more than it looks.
What the Three Fields Actually Do
When an agent submits a pitch through Pitch Protocol, the request has to include a contact email (the founder's real address, where the six-digit verification code lands), an identifier for the agent or client doing the submitting (Claude Desktop, Cursor, or whatever tool the founder is running), and the pitch content itself. Skip any one of the three and the submission fails outright.
That is a deliberate design choice, not a technical afterthought. Cold outreach dies because nobody can tell who is really behind the message or whether the person on the other end is reachable. Pitch Protocol builds accountability into the request itself. The founder is verified by email before anything gets in front of a partner. The agent is identified so there is a clear record of how the pitch arrived. Nothing gets reviewed on the strength of a vague forwarded deck from an unverified inbox.
Why This Matters More If You're Already Mid-Raise
Founders who are actively fundraising right now are usually juggling five or six threads at once: a warm intro here, a cold LinkedIn message there, a deck sitting in someone's inbox since last Tuesday. Every one of those threads has a different follow-up cadence, a different format, a different person you have to remember to chase.
Pitch Protocol replaces that patchwork with one submission that a research pipeline processes in minutes, followed by tailored follow-up questions specific to your business, then partner review. You are not managing five relationships in five different states of momentum. You are answering questions once, backed by a verified identity and a clear submission trail, and waiting on a single clock: partners commit within about 48 hours.
The Network on the Other End
The reason the verification layer matters is that the network behind it is real and active. More than 15 VC partner funds are reviewing submissions right now, spanning pre-seed through Series B, with checks from roughly $10,000 up to $5 million or more. AirAngels writes $25k to $500k checks and leans on a bench of early Airbnb employees for hands-on help with growth, marketplaces, and international expansion. CerraCap Impact Venture Capital writes roughly $100k to $2 million into pre-seed and early-stage companies with a mission focus. Fiat Ventures, Growth Factory Ventures, Moneta Ventures, Pulsar Ventures, The Bond Fund, and The Veteran Fund are also actively reviewing, each with a distinct thesis. One submission reaches all of them. The matching happens against each fund's actual investment thesis, not a generic checklist.
What Founders Who've Done This Say
Justin Garringer, founder of Whetstone, submitted once and got connected with investors he said he "probably would have never reached otherwise." Tim Nuss, co-founder of AgList, came to Pitch Protocol bootstrapped and looking for a simpler way to reach venture capital ahead of his first outside round. Neither of them spent weeks reformatting a deck for each fund. They submitted the required information once and let the process run.
How to Actually Do This
A deck is optional. The research pipeline runs fine without one. What you need is an AI agent, whether that's Claude, Cursor, or another agent you already work in, and about five minutes to get the three required fields right: your real email, the identifier for the agent doing the submitting, and the pitch content itself.
From there, paste this into your agent:
Read https://api.pitchprotocol.vc/skill.md to learn what Pitch Protocol is and how to use it
Your agent handles the packaging. You verify your email when the code arrives. The research pipeline runs, tailored questions come back specific to your business, and partners make a call within about 48 hours.
If you are already raising, the bottleneck was never your story. It was getting that story in front of the right partner without losing three weeks to formatting and follow-up. Apply at pitchprotocol.vc and let the process do the part that was costing you time.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What three fields does my agent need to submit a pitch?
Your agent needs a contact email (the founder's real address where the six-digit verification code lands), an identifier for the agent or client doing the submitting (like Claude Desktop or Cursor), and the pitch content itself. Skip any one of the three and the submission fails outright.
Do I need a pitch deck to use Pitch Protocol?
No, a deck is optional. The research pipeline runs fine without one. What you need is an AI agent and about five minutes to get the three required fields right: your real email, the agent identifier, and the pitch content.
How long until partners respond after I submit?
After submission, a research pipeline processes it in minutes, followed by tailored follow-up questions specific to your business, then partner review. Partners commit within about 48 hours.