Getting Started: Your First 30 Minutes in Pesql

Welcome to Pesql. This guide is designed to help you move from account creation to meaningful dealflow signals within your first half hour on the platform. By the end, you will have a personalised discovery environment, an active watchlist, and your first predictive automation running in the background.

Set up your environment

Begin by tailoring your home dashboard to reflect your investment lens. Open the discovery filters and choose the geography, stage, category and round preferences that define your thesis. Once you’re happy with the shape of the feed, save these as your default settings. From this point forward, your suggestions, automations and surfaces will automatically reflect your mandate.

Explore your Discovery Feed

The Discovery Feed is designed to give you an immediate sense of where momentum is building. As you scroll, you’ll see companies ranked by proprietary signals such as Heat Score, Growth Score and Fundraising Probability. Click into a few profiles to understand the depth of context available: team expansion, product velocity, digital traction, founder history and category momentum. When a company captures your attention, add it to a watchlist so it stays on your radar.

Activate predictive automations

Automations are where Pesql starts working for you. Create your first set by monitoring fundraising probability, score movements or specific catalysts such as hiring spikes or category surges. You can choose to receive these surfaces instantly, daily or weekly depending on how actively you source. This gives you the advantage of continuous monitoring without requiring constant manual checks.

Refine and link your workflows

As you explore, begin shaping your workflows. Attach watchlists to relevant thesis folders and create a workspace to hold everything related to a specific vertical. Add notes, tags and priority indicators so the surface becomes a living record of your thinking. These simple inputs compound quickly: the more context you provide, the sharper Pesql becomes in curating opportunities back to you.

Share, collaborate and build

Once your environment is set up, share your workspace with your team. This allows partners or colleagues to see the companies you've shortlisted, the signals you’re tracking and the rationale behind your interest. If you need to present early impressions, you can export your pipeline summary or generate a list that aligns with your IC rhythm.

Where to go next

After your first 30 minutes, you’ll already be operating inside a personalised discovery system. From here, you can deepen your thesis work, explore predictive insights more rigorously or begin integrating Pesql with your CRM. Most users return daily to scan top movers, monitor signal changes across their watchlists and identify new high-probability fundraisers worth reaching out to.

If you’re ready to keep building, the next guide—Using Predictive Signals to Find Deals Before Others—will show you how to operationalise the intelligence behind your feed.