The metric you are burying is the one they want.
A tool that writes the update an experienced investor reads as honest: the number you are steering around, the bad news framed straight, a specific ask, and, run as a cadence, the thing you said you would fix and quietly stopped mentioning.
An investor update has one job founders get wrong: it builds trust, and trust is built by reporting the bad news as clearly as the good. The founder who leads with the metric that went up and buries the one that went down trains their investors to read between the lines and assume the worst about everything unstated.
Investor Update writes the update an investor reads as honest. It catches the metric you are steering around, frames the bad news without spin, makes the ask specific enough to act on, and reads across your previous updates to flag the goal that has quietly moved three updates running.
Bad news framed straight beats good news framed well.
Same month, same numbers. Here is the update, run two ways.
You are a seed-stage founder writing your monthly update to five investors. You lead with MRR up 12% and a new enterprise logo.
You ask Claude to help write the update. It does a clean job with what you gave it. Polished summary, the MRR growth up front, the new logo highlighted, a tidy close. It works with the numbers you offered.
Which is the problem. You offered the good ones. The update reads well and quietly omits the retention slip you did not mention, the omission your investors will find on their own.
It asks for the down metrics too, then names the one you are steering around:
- →Offered: MRR up 12%, new enterprise logo
- →Pulled on asking: burn up 30%, NRR slipped 104% to 97%
- →Buried metric: the NRR drop, going in the update, named
Then the cadence move a fresh draft cannot make: you flagged onboarding as the priority two updates ago and have not mentioned it since. Either it is fixed, say so, or it stalled, in which case your investors have noticed the silence. It reads your own back-catalogue for the goal that quietly moved.
The cold version wrote a clean update from your good numbers. This wrote the one they trust.
- ✦Founders sending regular updates to investors, a board, or advisors
- ✦Operators who lead with the good metric and soften the bad one
- ✦Anyone who suspects their investors can already tell
- →investor-update.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →investor-update-skill.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
- →A README inside the zip with install steps for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the API
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Before you buy.
How is this different from just asking Claude directly?
Asked cold, Claude writes a clean update from whatever numbers you give it, which means it writes from your good ones. This insists on the down metrics, names the one you are burying, frames the bad news straight, forces a specific ask instead of let-me-know-if-you-can-help, and, run monthly, checks what you said you would fix last time against what you are saying now.
Will this work with ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs?
Yes. You get a native Claude Skill (.zip) that auto-invokes in Claude, plus a plain .md you can paste into a ChatGPT Custom GPT, a Gemini system prompt, or any LLM. The procedure travels with the file.
Can I share this with my team?
It's licensed for your own personal and professional use. The output it produces is yours to circulate. To put the Tool itself in the hands of a whole team, email hello@authority.md about team licensing.
What if it doesn't work for me?
If the file hasn't been delivered, or arrives defective or empty, we refund in full — see the refund policy in our terms.
Investor Update is an honesty-and-cadence tool. Not formal financial reporting, not a fundraising pitch, not a substitute for an accountant.