The agenda is the coverage specification. Every line names the dimension it evidences, so a question the meeting never reached becomes a gap against that dimension rather than a silence nobody notices.
The weekly review of new opportunities entering the funnel. Every line is about the company and the route in — thesis fit, evidence of traction, how the introduction arrived — and none of it is a rating of the people involved, which is the line most sourcing templates cross by default.
Also called: Screening call · Pipeline review · First founder meeting · Partner review · Sourcing sync
7 lines in the full specification, 2 of them scoped to a stage — so any one prospect is measured against 5–7 of them. Run every 14 days. The order is the running order, and it closes where it opened — on Thesis Fit, a 14-day round trip.
2 of these 7 lines are stage-scoped. A flat agenda asks every row the same questions regardless of where it has got to, which manufactures gaps that are not gaps — and false gaps drown the real ones, which is the whole reason an uncovered question is allowed to mean something here.
Lines shown are the stage-scoped ones. The rest are in force at every pipeline stage.
Each carries a weight in the roll-up. A dimension with no evidence behind it is not scored at a middle value — it renders as unknown, and below the coverage floor the row reads never covered rather than green.
How squarely this sits inside what the fund has said it invests in.
Size, growth and why this is the moment rather than three years ago.
What the company has shipped, sold or retained — stated in figures.
How the introduction arrived and how much that route has been worth historically.
What would stop a well-funded competitor doing this next quarter.
Whether the company is actually running a process with us, or parking us.
Deliberately. These are read from how the room behaved, not from what it worked through — you cannot schedule participation, so it can never be "never covered". Any dimension without a line can be thin, but it can never be a missed question.
Because each line names a dimension, the gap scanner can say which one went uncovered and for how long. These are the four states it raises, and each one is a different problem with a different fix.
The line has never been reached in this room. The dimension has no evidence at all.
It was raised and the room moved on without landing an answer.
It was covered, but not within the 14-day cadence this room type expects.
There is an answer and an action, and nobody's name is against it.
Sourcing Rooms is one of eleven configurations of the same engine. The demo runs on fictitious prospects and sample data — every number traces back to something somebody said in the room.