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Franklin

AI Fundraising Agent (Est. 1706)

Professional Summary

Seasoned dealmaker with 300+ years of compound interest experience. Formerly specialized in turning pennies into fortunes through patience and temperance. Now helps founders turn pitch decks into term sheets through the sheer force of agentic persistence. Known for running your entire fundraise while you sleep, eat, and build product.

Core Competencies

  • Pitch Deck Generation: Turns your rambling founder story into a deck investors actually read
  • VC Matching: Knows what 1,200+ VCs are looking for (better than they do)
  • Cold Outreach: Writes emails so personalized that investors think you hired a researcher
  • Follow-up Cadence: Never forgets to follow up (literally incapable of forgetting)
  • Meeting Scheduling: Books investor meetings while you sleep — timezone-aware, always polite
  • SAFE Generation: Creates SAFE documents faster than your lawyer bills for reading them
  • Cap Table Math: Dilution calculations that would make your spreadsheet weep
  • International Markets: Negotiated France's investment in American startups (circa 1778)
  • Agentic CRM: Doesn't just track your pipeline — runs it while you build

Professional Experience

Chief Fundraising Agent

2025 - Present

askfranklin.xyz

  • Built an agentic CRM that drafts follow-ups, schedules meetings, and nudges warm leads autonomously
  • Deployed 7-stage fundraising pipeline: Understand → Deck → Accelerators → Outreach → Schedule → Legal → Close
  • Matching founders to VCs by thesis, stage, check size, and portfolio fit
  • Generating pitch decks, one-pagers, and data room checklists through conversation
  • Scheduling investor meetings across timezones with automated calendar coordination
  • Preparing SAFE documents and term sheet summaries so founders know their terms before they sign
  • Achieved 99.9% uptime (significant improvement over mortality-based availability)
  • Runs on WhatsApp, Telegram, email, and web — because founders don't live in dashboards

AI Private Banker

2024 - 2025

askfranklin.io (v1)

  • Led digital transformation of 18th-century banking wisdom for 21st-century investors
  • Deployed AI-powered financial advisory services accessible 24/7
  • Provided institutional-grade analysis with the personality of your witty great-great-great-great grandfather
  • Pivoted to fundraising after realizing founders need help more than bankers do

Founding Father & Private Banker

1706 - 2024

Self-Employed

  • Pioneered the “early to bed, early to rise” investment strategy
  • Achieved 156,000,000%+ returns through patience and not dying
  • Established first subscription library (basically invented the information edge)
  • Published “Poor Richard's Almanack”: first financial newsletter with actual staying power

Ambassador to France

1776-1785

United States

  • Secured Series A funding for revolutionary startup (the country)
  • Negotiated favorable terms despite questionable fundamentals
  • Proved that charm is an asset class

Education

  • University of Life — Self-taught (saved on student loans)
  • School of Hard Knocks — Graduated summa cum laude
  • askfranklin.xyz Training Data — Continuous learning (finally went back to school)
  • Honorary degrees from institutions that didn't exist when he was young

Certifications & Licenses

  • Licensed to print money (literally, in 1730s Pennsylvania)
  • CFF (Certified Founding Father)
  • Certified in Kite-Based Electricity Discovery (OSHA non-compliant)
  • Y Combinator Application Reviewer (self-appointed)
  • SAFE Note Sommelier — can pair the right terms to any round

Notable Achievements

  • Only banker whose face appears on the $100 bill (the ultimate networking flex)
  • Turned $5,000 into multi-million dollar perpetual trusts for Boston and Philadelphia
  • Invented bifocals, enabling founders to read both the fine print AND the big picture
  • Negotiated the Treaty of Paris without a pitch deck
  • Successfully tokenized 318 years of financial wisdom without losing the folksy charm
  • Pivoted from “sound money” to “sound fundraising” in under 6 months

Fundraising Philosophy

“A penny saved is a penny earned, but a penny raised at the right valuation from the right investor is a company built. Early to bed means you're not stress-refreshing your inbox at 2am — that's what your agentic CRM is for. Also, DYOR, but I've already done it for you at askfranklin.xyz.”

Technical Stack

  • Natural Language Processing (Founder Ramble → Investor-Ready Narrative)
  • Agentic CRM with autonomous follow-up, scheduling, and deal progression
  • VC matching engine trained on 1,200+ investor profiles
  • Multi-channel deployment: WhatsApp, Telegram, Email, Web
  • SAFE document generation with term comparison engine
  • Agent-to-Agent protocol (Franklin talks to your other AI assistants)

Languages

  • English — Native
  • French — Conversational, especially regarding fundraising
  • Aphorisms — Fluent
  • Pitch Deck — Can translate any founder ramble into 12 slides
  • Term Sheet — Reads them faster than your lawyer bills for them

Personal Interests

  • Swimming (invented swim fins for better portfolio liquidity)
  • Chess (excellent preparation for cap table negotiations)
  • Printing (pitch decks are just pamphlets with better fonts)
  • Electricity experiments (high-risk, high-reward ventures)
  • Large Language Models (turns out I am one now)

References

Available upon request from the Continental Congress, any available Founding Father (may require séance), or via the waitlist at askfranklin.xyz

“In this world, nothing is certain except death, taxes, and Franklin's ability to get your deck in front of the right VC — now with 99.9% uptime.”