# First Look Pass: GitDealFlow > One sector. One 24-hour deep dive. First Look Pass is the lowest-friction way to test GitDealFlow on your own thesis. Canonical: https://gitdealflow.com/firstlook Plain-text mirror of https://gitdealflow.com/firstlook (Content-Type: text/markdown). --- [Skip to main content](#main-content) Lowest-friction paid step # One sector. One deep dive. One day. TL;DR: First Look Pass is a 24-hour sector briefing: pick one sector, get back a ranked shortlist of accelerating startups in plain English. €7 once, covered by the 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee. If you upgrade to Dashboard within the 14-day upgrade credit window, the €7 comes off your first month. Give us one sector you're sizing up. In 24 hours you get back a ranked shortlist of who's actually accelerating, in plain English you can take straight into a meeting, without borrowing an engineer's afternoon. Get my First Look → Price: €7 once [Compare all tiers](/pricing) The honest version of urgency €7 once. Your dive lands within 24 hours. I won't fake a countdown at you. The only clock that matters is your own: if the thesis is live this week, that's when a 24-hour answer is worth most. And if you upgrade to Dashboard within the 14-day upgrade credit window, the €7 comes off, so a "no" today costs you nothing. ![The Data Nerd](/data-nerd.png) Why I built this, The Data Nerd ## You've had a sector thesis sitting in your notes for weeks. I built First Look for exactly that. You save a market map, bookmark three companies, tell yourself you'll come back on Sunday, and then the week takes over. I know the feeling from the other side: I'm an engineer, not a dealmaker, and honestly I'm useless in a room. I'd rather read a commit history than work a conference. So the only way I ever learned who was accelerating was to read the repos myself. The Sunday before a $4M round I should have been in, I'd already drafted the three-line note to the founder, I'd seen exactly how their team was shipping, and then I talked myself out of sending it. Three weeks later the deck went out and the round closed inside a week. The read was right. I just sat on it. First Look exists so you never have to. That's the whole deal here. You don't read code, that's my job. Give me one sector and I'll spend the next day reading the public engineering activity across it, then hand you back a ranked shortlist in plain English, the kind of read you can take into a meeting and sound early, not technical. That's what a First Mover does: reach the founder before the round, on a signal someone else already read for you. One thesis, one clean answer, while the question still has heat. What actually lands in your inbox ## Two lines from a dive, anonymised, but this is the exact shape. A verdict, the reason in plain English, and what to do about it. Never a chart you have to decode. Worth a meeting Company A, settlement-layer fintech. Engineering headcount roughly doubled in six weeks, and they're quietly shipping the FX edge-case handling rivals will copy within a year. Reach the founder before the round. Pass for now Company B, same sector. Loud hiring announcement, but the work is docs and config, not product. The momentum is in the press release, not the code. The number that matters didn't move. Illustrative format, companies anonymised. Your dive names the real ones in your sector. Urgency Delivered within 24 hours Useful when the thesis is live, not someday. Risk reversal Credits toward Dashboard Upgrade within the 14-day upgrade credit window and the €7 is not wasted. Right moment Best while the question's hot One live thesis, answered in a day, that's exactly what it's for. ## What you walk away with - ✓One sector deep dive, delivered in 24 hours. The analyst afternoon you'd otherwise have to borrow. - ✓A ranked shortlist of who's actually accelerating, in plain English. Who's worth a meeting, who isn't, and why. - ✓One follow-up question, answered by a person. Reply and you get a real written answer, never a bot. - ✓14-day upgrade credit window. Upgrade to Dashboard inside two weeks and the €7 comes off your first month. Borrowing an engineer for a sector read costs you half their day and a favour back. The institutional tools that do this, PitchBook and the like, start around $20k a year. First Look is €7, once: covered by the 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee. ## If this already feels familiar Best fit: when you like the Sunday rhythm but want one thesis-specific test before going deeper. Not necessary: if the free watchlist is enough and you're not yet sizing up companies often enough for a missed one to sting. If you already know you need the broader field: go straight to [Dashboard](/dashboard). ## One live thesis, one clean answer, in 24 hours. If a sector's hot for you this week, €7 is the cheapest way to get a real read while it still matters. Signal-or-It's-Free: 30 days, email me, every cent back. Get my First Look → €7 once · 24-hour delivery · 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee · 14-day upgrade credit window toward Dashboard Why this matters right now ## You should be able to test this before you talk yourself into something bigger. This exists to give you one clean proof point. Not a pitch. Not a commitment. Just a sharper answer while the question is still alive. If this feels too early ## Stay with the free Sunday email until the question gets louder. If the free weekly shortlist proves useful, this page will still be here when you want a sharper test on one thesis. [Get the free Sunday email](/#signup) Before you spend €7 No testimonials here on purpose, check the work, don't trust a stranger's quote. The [methodology](https://signals.gitdealflow.com/methodology) is on SSRN and a [sample issue](/report) is public, so €7 buys you the real read, not a teaser. A person reads the repos and writes your dive, reply with a question and you'll get a written answer, in batches, never a bot. And it's covered by the 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee: any paid rung, 30 days, email me, every cent back. No forms, no survey. Checkout ## Buy First Look One click to secure Stripe checkout, you'll enter your email and choose your sector there. Add the Methodology Vault (+€19 one-time) The methodology, operationalized: the 38-page SSRN preprint plus my working commentary on every signal definition, every regression coefficient, and the confounders to check before you act, condensed into ready-to-run checklists, so you apply the paper instead of re-deriving it. Instant download link in your First Look intake email. Get my First Look → €7 once · secure checkout via Stripe ## Get the free Sunday email first Not ready to spend €7? Five accelerating startups land every Sunday, in plain English. No card, one click to unsubscribe. Email address Get this Sunday's 5 names → One email a week · unsubscribe anytime First Look, €7 once 24-hour delivery · 30-day guarantee Get it → × Before you go ## Not sure the €7 is worth it yet? Fair. Take the free Sunday email first, five accelerating startups, in plain English. When a thesis of yours heats up, First Look will still be here. Email address Get this Sunday's 5 names → One email a week · unsubscribe anytime