# A pre-seed evidence pack

The records a founder can gather before a first investor conversation, and what each one shows about a young company.

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Last updated: 2026-10-11
Publisher: World Enterprise, run by World Enterprise Group Incorporated

Before a first conversation with an outside investor, a founder can gather records that show who owns the company, who owns the work, what has already been signed and what the company has learned from customers. This brief describes those categories and what each one shows about a young company.

It reads public sources on the SAFE and on model financing documents, on how securities may be offered, on the parts of a business plan, on market research and on how copyright and patent ownership are transferred. It keeps the sources' reports apart from its own analysis, and it gives no statistic about what investors ask for or prefer.

It cannot say how any investor will respond. Nothing in it says or implies that assembling a pack leads to an investment, and every legal point is for counsel to check against the facts of the company.

It is general information for founders. It is not legal, tax or investment advice.

## What is inside

- The question this brief answers
- About the evidence
- What an evidence pack is for
- Who owns the company
- Who owns the work
- The instruments already signed
- How the raise may be talked about in public
- The plan and what it has to support
- Evidence about customers and the market
- Keeping the pack current
- Questions to ask before you share the pack
- What this brief cannot tell you
- Sources