Our Mission

Democratize business intelligence by making professional-grade market analysis, investment readiness scoring, and strategic planning accessible to every entrepreneur.

Our Vision

Become a trusted readiness workflow for founders and accelerator programs, with transparent evidence behind every score and recommendation.

From Charlotte's Ecosystem to Global Vision

Through Innovate Charlotte's Customer Discovery Lab, we discovered something surprising: founders can complete a business plan and still lack a clear, reviewable way to know whether the evidence supports the story. The pain is not just document creation; it is uncertainty about what to test next.

That discovery shaped the product. CanvasClaude is not positioned around an unsupported time-savings claim; it is designed to give founders a structured assessment, visible evidence gaps, and a prioritized test plan before an investor conversation.

In an early pilot-interest question, 3 of 3 founders expressed interest. That is encouraging but not proof of demand. We are now testing paid conversion, retention, and accelerator partnerships, starting in Charlotte.

Evidence-Backed Product Foundation

Product, discovery, and internal-use signals reported separately

661
Automated Tests
10
Discovery Conversations
8
Internal Venture Canvases
10
Mapped Ecosystem Connections
5
Tracked Gaps With Owners
3/ 3
Founders Expressing Pilot Interest
0
Paid Customers
2
Paid Pilot Goal

Key Milestones

Building Charlotte's business intelligence platform, one milestone at a time

Dec 2025
Customer Discovery Lab Completed

Customer discovery narrowed the founder problem and launch assumptions

Nov 2025
Early Pilot-Interest Signal

3 of 3 founders asked about a pilot expressed interest; no paid commitments

Oct 2025
Phase 1 MVP Complete

7/7 use cases operational, 147 integration tests passing

Aug 2026
Accelerator Channel Hypothesis

Conditional interest from a program already using an internal BMC tool

Grant Period
Paid Validation

Target: 30 paid founders and two paid accelerator pilots

After B2B Validation
Expansion Decision

Open additional segments only after direct evidence supports them

A Bottom-Up Path to Scale

Founder subscriptions plus accelerator pilots; every assumption remains under validation

$2M+
Seven-Year Revenue Path

Bottom-up founder and accelerator scenario

30 + 2
Grant-Period Goal

Paid founders plus paid accelerator pilots

$0
Current Revenue

Pre-revenue; willingness to pay under validation

Evidence Before Claims

No patents have been filed; paid-pilot and retention evidence will determine whether these strengths compound

Structured Workflow

Canvas-to-Readiness Pipeline

Purpose-built workflow from business-model evidence to readiness gaps and next actions

Reproducible Data

Versioned Market-Sizing Method

Census-backed source data, assumptions, and calculations remain reviewable

Scoring Method

Eight-Factor Readiness Assessment

Consistent scoring that makes assumptions and evidence gaps visible

Internal Use

3IT Venture Ecosystem

Eight live venture canvases with ten mapped connections and five owned gaps

Founder & Advisors

Experienced leadership backed by Charlotte's startup ecosystem network

DP

Deepak Pradhan

Founder & CEO

Technical founder with enterprise software background. Building the business intelligence platform Charlotte's founders need.

Charlotte Ecosystem Advisors

Laura Smailes Innovate Charlotte — CDL Program Director
Juan Garzon Innovate Charlotte — Investor Relations
Amory Lenarz gBETA Charlotte — Accelerator Coach

Ready to Get Investor-Ready?

Join Charlotte's founders using CanvasClaude to validate their business models.