build-your-nock

Build Your Nock

A playbook to turn an investor's own recorded pitch meetings into a reusable lens (a "Nock" of your own) that reviews any founder's deck the way they would — surfacing the questions they'd ask and the gaps they'd push on.

The output is a second skill (like nock) personalized to the investor: a question-bank.md (their recurring questions, by theme) + a principles.md (the bar beneath the questions), plus the logic to apply both to a deck.

The flow: pull → filter → extract → distill → calibrate against a few real decks → finalize. The calibration step (Stage A5) is what turns a plausible lens into one that actually sounds like the investor — it asks them to upload a handful of named decks and checks the lens's predictions against what they really asked in those meetings.

The architecture — and the one seam that matters

Two stages, separated by a privacy seam:

STAGE A — DISTILL (private, on your machine, uses raw transcripts)
   your recorded pitch meetings ──► your "lens": question-bank.md + principles.md
        ↑ raw transcripts never leave this stage

STAGE B — APPLY (shareable: the anonymized lens only)
   a founder's deck  +  your lens ──► questions you'd ask + what's missing

The distilled, anonymized lens is the only artifact safe to hand a founder. Raw transcripts and real company names stay local. Build with that seam in mind from step one.

Prerequisites

• Granola on a Business plan (gives API access). The normal case is one account, one workspace — this playbook assumes that. (If you happen to run multiple workspaces, mint one API key per workspace and run the pull once per key; otherwise ignore.)
• Your own writing on what you look for — essays, memos, investment-thesis docs, threads. Optional but it's what makes the lens sound like you rather than a generic VC. Have it ready to paste.

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Stage A1 — Pull your meetings (Granola API)

Granola's official REST API. One key, one workspace.