Services

Focused support, starting with a diagnostic

All work begins with a $349 diagnostic assessment. This ensures we understand your science, your deck, and what kind of support, if any, actually makes sense before committing to further work. If we move forward, the diagnostic fee may be credited toward further engagement.

Based on that assessment, I’ll recommend one of three paths.

• No further work. In some cases, no further work is needed or your company isn't mature enough to focus on pitching to investors. In these cases, you’ll still leave with clear, actionable feedback.

• Targeted advisory. In others, targeted advisory may be appropriate, focusing on specific areas such as narrative clarity or outlining strategic positioning.

• Full engagement. For some founders, full engagement may be the right path, involving creating a teaser deck, full pitch deck, and other communication materials for you to reach investors with clarity and confidence.

Why do I need a pitch deck consultant when I have AI?

In short, AI can generate content. It can't exercise judgment.

AI tools are useful. In fact, I used AI to write this. AI is great for suggesting structure, improving phrasing, and generating clean, readable slides. But early-stage life science fundraising doesn’t fail at the level of formatting. It fails at the level of understanding.

In a pitch deck, someone needs to decide what matters now and what doesn’t, how to frame early or incomplete data, how much uncertainty to make explicit, and what an investor is likely to trust. These are not formatting problems. They are judgment problems.

Investors are not just reading your slides. They are evaluating how you think, how you interpret your own data, and whether your story holds up under scrutiny. AI can help you produce a deck. It cannot help you stand behind it with confidence.

AI can help you produce slides, but they cannot determine:

• what actually matters in your science

• how your data should be interpreted

• what an investor is likely to trust or question

Because of this, early drafts created with AI often feel clear on the surface, but still require deeper work to ensure the story is accurate, coherent, and grounded in real understanding.

My role is not to replace tools. It’s to listen carefully, interpret complex science, and shape a story that feels clear, credible, and worth engaging with. This is slower than generating slides, but its what elevates a start-up with potential to a real investment opportunity.

In early-stage life science and medtech companies, the issue is rarely a lack of substance. More often, it’s a lack of clarity in how that substance is communicated. I’ve seen rigorous thinking get lost in technical detail, promising data presented without clear interpretation, and founders struggling to share a coherent narrative.

My approach is simple: I listen first. I focus on how you reason, how you interpret your own data, and where the story becomes unclear to someone outside your field. From there, I help shape a narrative that reflects the science honestly while making it understandable to others.

My academic background includes a bachelors degree in economics (with minors in math and philosophy), and a masters degree in epidemiology from Tel Aviv University where my research focused on the relationship between naturalistic psychedelic use and co-occurring substance use disorders. I've also worked as a research assistant in the fields of economics and medical decision making. For the past 4 years, I've been working as a senior grant consultant helping life science companies communicate complex science clearly and effectively.

I like to say that my superpower is curiosity. It allows me to stay with complexity, ask better questions, and help founders see their work more clearly. I focus on scientific storytelling grounded in real understanding, structured with decision-making in mind. I’m not a regulatory consultant, a design agency, or a generic pitch deck service. My role is narrower and deeper: to help you present a scientific narrative that makes potential investors want to support your business.

I started this work because I've seen too many founders struggle with representing their scientific narrative to investors.

Contact

Start with a pitch deck diagnostic

If you have an AI-generated pitch deck, you can request a $349 diagnostic assessment. The process begins with a short intake form, after which I review your submission to confirm fit. If approved, you’ll receive a link to complete payment and sign a short agreement, followed by instructions to upload your deck.

You’ll receive feedback on clarity, structure, and interpretation, along with insight into how investors are likely to read your deck and recommendations on next steps. In some cases, that recommendation will be that no further work is needed. If we do move forward, the diagnostic fee may be credited toward future engagement.

Email

Emily@scidex-consulting.com