Lens your next unicorn 🦄 Your reviewers fade by deck 40. We don't. Batch-read, ranked, receipts attached — the final call stays yours.

Joined July 2026
Meanwhile, in Bangkok. Pedro and Vlad flew in for U-Hackathon at Flow Summit 2026. Two days, one countdown on the big screen, and then: 1st place for Pedro. Proud of you both!
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Recap the participation in U-hackathon @u_topia_app
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Your first deck is a starting point. Every valid Web3 applicant gets a private review. Up to 10 teams improve their pitch, then face a human jury + the AI Unicorn live. Founders apply by 18 Oct. Partner integrations are open. 29 Oct · Free · Online app.evallens.io/e/pitch-gaun…
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We’re launching Pitch Gauntlet: Madrid Edition together with @Yellow and @R2Copilot. Founders get private deck feedback before the live round. Partner integrations are also open. Apply or partner with us: app.evallens.io/e/pitch-gaun…
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Judgment Call, the EvalLens podcast, is here. In the first episode, Yaroslav sits down with our co-founder Dr. Kim Golubev to talk about posthumanism. Watch the full episode on YouTube: youtu.be/yMtX8HbjM4E
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Eight founders. Six AI judges. One live show from a villa in Barcelona with @Yellow. Best day we've had at @EvalLensio so far. evallens.io/blog/ai-judged-d…
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We let an AI judge a pitch competition. No human panel, start to finish. Eight Web3 founders. Six AI judges. One live show from a villa in Barcelona, hosted by @Yellow (@PedroMYellow) during European Blockchain Week 🧵
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Your deck usually gets a few minutes and a yes or no, and you don't hear what to fix. At Pitch Gauntlet you get an AI review within a day, fix the deck and pitch live Sep 17. The host confirms the winner. Submissions close tomorrow, Sep 15, 23:59 CET ↓
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1/ We signed our first paid pilot outside startup evaluation. An operating fitness platform. About 1,000 members. One coach. We are building her digital twin.
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2/ Coached programmes retain because a human reads your work. One coach's attention does not divide by 1,000. That is an evaluation problem, and evaluation is our whole company.
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A founder ran his deck through @EvalLensio , got a 5.2, and asked for the room where scores turn into work. Partnership with Docsbook: weekly sessions against the report on our side, our docs on his product on theirs. No logos pretending.
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Our new co-founder has never shipped production code. He spent ten years studying how judgment works. That's why we brought him on. Meet Dr. Kim Golubev.
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AI makes execution abundant. Responsibility stays scarce. Scarce things acquire a price. Next week we unveil what that means for EvalLens. Kim joined because of what comes next.
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EvalLens evaluates pitch decks: AI prepares the evidence, a human makes the final call. The hard question underneath: when work is shared between humans and machines, who owns the decision? That question is Kim's academic field.
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Ph.D. in English Literature, UNLV. First Crimean Tatar to earn a Ph.D. in the US. Book forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. Teaches in Silicon Valley. At EvalLens: research and academic partnerships.
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"Reviewers banned from using AI" made every newsletter. The organizer's real question never got answered: what's still allowed? We mapped the ERC and NIH rules operation by operation. The line isn't the ban. It's administration vs evaluation. evallens.io/blog/what-the-er… #evaluate
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Today we're announcing the partnership: PUMAS visibility + control over EvalLens agent infrastructure, mutual intros to customers, and co-marketing as we ship together. Meet PUMAS → pumas.digital Follow them → xitter.cf/pumasdigital #EvalLens #PUMAS #AIAgents
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Yesterday, a few hours before the deadline, we submitted our Y Combinator application (Fall 2026). Pressing Submit felt stranger than we expected 🧵
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