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The Assessor’s job

The Assessor is the first person to review an entrepreneur’s application after it is submitted. Their job is to decide whether a company is ready to pitch to the angel group — not whether to invest in it. The Assessor is acting as a quality filter: is this application complete, coherent, and sufficiently developed to be worth the group’s time at a pitch event?

When Assessors are active

  • Created — the application has just been submitted
  • Screening — the Assessor is actively reviewing
  • Pitching — the company has been invited to pitch; the Assessor may continue to support before handing over to a Project Lead
Once a project moves to Due Diligence, the Assessor’s role ends.

What Assessors can see and do

Available on all plans:
  • View all applications in the Created, Screening, and Pitching stages
  • Review the entrepreneur’s submission in full
  • Use the screening framework (8 dimensions) to assess readiness
  • Ask the entrepreneur clarifying questions via the Q&A tool
  • Move an application from Created to Screening, or from Screening to Pitching
  • Decline an application at any stage
  • Use AngelAI (subject to the group’s monthly AI response limit)
  • Project Discussion — the shared team conversation on each deal
  • Send group emails to members
AI response limits: Free groups have 50 responses per month across the whole group; Pro groups have 150; Scale groups have unlimited access.
Lead review generation — an AI-generated structured review of the entrepreneur’s submission — is available on the Scale plan only. Free and Pro Assessors see the coverage map and opportunity summary but not the full AI-generated review.

Typical Assessor workflow

  1. Receive notification that a new application has been submitted
  2. Open the application and read the entrepreneur’s submission
  3. Move the application to Screening
  4. Optionally generate a coverage map and lead review (Scale plan)
  5. Work through the screening framework
  6. Ask the entrepreneur any clarifying questions via Q&A
  7. Move to Pitching or decline with a recorded reason
See Reviewing an application for the step-by-step process.