Your OpenSeed Round 1 Report — Which of the 17 Mentors' Comments to Fix First

#The First 5 Minutes — Read the Verdict Before the Overall Score

When your report opens, a large star rating appears at the top of the screen. But a star rating is a number without context. Whether '85 points' is a passing or failing score depends entirely on the type of business plan. What you should look at first is the one-line verdict.

The most common mistake is seeing a verdict of 'at risk of rejection' but glancing at the star rating and thinking, 'It's 80 points, so it's fine.' The rating formula weights categories differently, so the overall average can be high even while a specific axis falls below the cutoff.

#Second — Start with the Red Flags Section

The next thing to look at after the verdict is the 'Red Flags' section. This is where structural weaknesses that repeat across multiple mentors' comments get collected. A comment that only one mentor raised might just be a personal opinion, but something that surfaces as a red flag already has more evidence behind it than that.

Read the red flags in descending order of severity. In an OpenSeed report, each red flag is tagged with a severity level and an expected point impact (expectedPoints) — start with whichever has the biggest value.

• critical — fix immediately; this is a weakness that shakes the passing bar itself
• high — fixing is strongly recommended; a weakness with a large point impact
• medium — address alongside expanding the body text
• Items mentioned in the body but missing evidence or figures — check individual mentors' comments and prioritize based on your own judgment

#The 3 Revision Patterns With the Highest Score Gains

Based on analysis data, these are the three revision patterns that produce the largest score gains from Round 1 to Round 2.

On the flip side, some revisions barely move the score. Polishing the design, changing fonts, adding a cover page, or piling on more abstract vision statements — none of these register as signal to the AI review. You'll likely just add length without moving the score.

#Comments You Can Deliberately Ignore — Don't Chase All of Them

Some of the 17 mentors apply the same tone consistently for the sake of consistency, but that tone might not fit your specific business. In the following cases, deliberately ignoring the comment produces a better outcome.

• A SaaS-focused Tier 1 mentor flags 'insufficient ARR/MRR data' on a B2C fintech business — ignore it if your stage genuinely can't have ARR yet
• A government-grant specialist mentor flags 'weak P/S scoring' on a business plan meant for a seed IR — ignore it if you're not using a government-grant template
• An impact-VC avatar flags 'insufficient social value' on a standard B2B SaaS business — ignore it if impact investors aren't your target
• A minor wording correction flagged by only one mentor — if most of the 16 were fine with the same sentence, it's OK to leave it as-is

Because OpenSeed has 17 mentors evaluating independently, it's normal for some comments not to fit your specific business. Chase every single note and you end up with 'a business plan written for the AI,' which blurs what actually matters about your business.

#Category Ratings — Deciding Which Axis to Fix First

After addressing the red flags, look at the category-by-category ratings. OpenSeed typically shows 7–10 evaluation axes (market viability, technical merit, team, finances, execution, differentiation, risk, etc.). Because the weights differ, the efficient move is to fix whichever axis has the largest 'weight × weakness' product — not simply the weakest axis.

#Sentence-Level Rewrites — Save These for Last

OpenSeed's report attaches concrete revision suggestions to weak sentences in your body text. But this is best saved for last. If you polish sentences before fixing structural weaknesses (market, team, finances), you'll likely end up needing another round of major revisions anyway.

Apply sentence-level rewrites in this order:

• 1. Fix Tier 1–2 red flags (major revisions)
• 2. Strengthen the highest-weighted axis from your category ratings
• 3. Run Round 2 analysis and check the new verdict
• 4. Once the new verdict becomes 'high chance of passing' → that's when you do sentence-level rewrites
• 5. Review once more right before final submission

#Checklist Before Running Round 2

Round 2 analysis also requires a fresh request, so use it efficiently. Only move to Round 2 once you satisfy all 5 of the following:

• Every Tier 1 red flag (agreed on by 10+ mentors) has been addressed in the body text
• You've strengthened at least one paragraph on the top-weighted axis
• If your body text was under 1,500 characters, you've expanded it to 3,000+
• You've added a paragraph on Founder-Problem Fit (founder background + how you discovered the problem)
• You have at least one piece of MVP or validation data (interview count, beta users, or a MoM graph — any of these)