Intro.
#The Limits of a Single Generalist Mentor
When one person evaluates an entire business plan — market, technology, finance, team, legal, design, marketing, and more — that one person's strengths, weaknesses, and biases shape the whole result. A mentor who's strong in market analysis tends to go easy on the financials, and vice versa.
- Blind spots — a mentor's weak areas become weak spots in the review itself
- Bias — the mentor's industry background and personal preferences bleed into the outcome
- Shallow depth — covering every domain alone leaves less depth in each one
- No cross-check — since the result is one person's opinion, there's nothing to validate it against
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#Four Things Divided Review Delivers
| Value | What You Get |
|---|---|
| Blind-spot coverage | Each domain gets its own specialist, minimizing what falls through the cracks |
| Perspective diversity | Market, tech, finance, legal, and other lenses applied simultaneously |
| Weakness detection | Strength in one area no longer hides weakness in another |
| Conflict signals | Where mentors disagree marks exactly where you should dig deeper |
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#OpenSeed's 17 Evaluation Roles
OpenSeed defines 17 evaluation roles: 7 core roles and 10 professional roles. Professional roles are matched to business relevance; the separate Chief Report Composer integrates applicable findings.
- 7 core mentors — problem definition, market, finance, team, product, technology, and risk
- 10 professional roles — law, patents, accounting, tax, credit, product management, credit guarantees, technology evaluation, franchising, and YC-style advice (matched by business relevance)
- Chief Report Composer — a separate role that integrates applicable findings into the final report
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OpenSeed publishes a full mentor directory on its site, so you can see exactly which domain each mentor covers before you submit.
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#Operating Principles That Maximize the Value of Division
- Domain separation — each mentor evaluates only their own domain, with no opinions outside it
- Independent evaluation — mentors don't see each other's results before scoring
- Cited evidence — every score comes with the exact passage from your business plan that justifies it
- Conflict flagging — areas where mentors disagree are flagged separately for you
Summary.
#How to Put the Divided Review Results to Work
- Compare scores across mentors to identify your business plan's strong and weak domains
- Treat domains with the widest score gaps between mentors as your top priority for follow-up
- Check whether the Chief Report Composer's integrated report lines up with the individual domain scores
- Use the comments on your weakest domains directly as a revision guide
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