Flaynn, a French pre-seed pre-diligence tool

Who it is for

First of all, for French-speaking pre-seed business angels. You receive more deals through your network than you have evenings to read them. Flaynn makes them readable before the first call: what the dossier claims, where each key piece of information comes from, what is not consistent, what is missing, and the questions to ask the founder.

Then, for pre-seed founders. The Flaynn Atelier prepares a dossier for the way an investor will read it. It is free and by invitation, and does not show the dossier to any investor without the founder's consent.

What a Flaynn reading says

Flaynn Intelligence, Flaynn's analysis engine, reads a dossier across 5 pillars scored out of 20: Team, Market, Product, Traction, Finance, weighted by stage. The score out of 100 is a reading signal and an analysis priority, never a recommendation to invest.

Every key piece of information carries its provenance, under three statuses: verified when it is consistent with a register source; declared when the company writes it, in the submission form or in the uploaded document (page cited), and it is taken as is; inferred when it is produced by the analysis engine, including a figure it spots in the deck without a cited page. The reading also flags missing data and inconsistencies between two items in the dossier. Verified is never a banking, legal, accounting or human audit.

The method is set out on the methodology page.

Why Flaynn exists

At pre-seed, both sides of the table read without reliable information. An investor receives deals with no common format, where the quality of the story often masks the substance: sorting costs time, sorting badly costs opportunities. A founder discovers the flaws in their dossier in a meeting, when it is too late to fix them.

Flaynn prepares this reading. It does not decide for the investor and does not judge the company: it says what is established, what remains to be proven, and where to dig first.

What Flaynn does not do

• Flaynn never recommends investing or passing. The decision stays with the investor.
• Flaynn does not send you deals and does not sell deals. The investor imports the ones they already receive.
• Flaynn does not expose any founder. A dossier submitted to the Atelier is shown to no investor.
• Flaynn does not attest that a dossier is accurate. It shows what could be reconciled with a source, and what could not.
• Flaynn gives no legal, accounting, tax, financial or investment advice.

Who is behind it

Flaynn was founded by Sirven Flaynn Ouamba, its president, who signs the methodology content published on this site (LinkedIn profile). The company was incorporated on 1 May 2026 and is registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register; its registered office is at 80 avenue Albert Bartholomé, Paris. Full legal information is on the legal notice page.

Flaynn is a young, independent company. Its model rests on investor subscriptions: no commission on funding rounds, no sale of deals, no remuneration tied to the decision to invest.

The focus is deliberate: business angels in France and French-speaking Europe on one side, French-speaking pre-seed startups on the other. A precise market, a public method, one reading per dossier.

What will not change

A pre-diligence tool is worth only what its reading is worth. Three commitments, written here so that we can be held to them.

• The reading is not for sale. No payment changes a dossier's signal. A dossier submitted by a founder to the Atelier is shown to no investor.
• Every signal is explainable. Every score is justified pillar by pillar, every caveat is named, every key piece of information says where it comes from.
• Your data stays yours. An imported deal stays in the space of the investor who imported it: no other subscriber has access to it, except through a share link that the investor creates and can revoke. Nothing is shared without explicit consent.