Are you building deep tech, or cosplaying it?

Tick everything that applies. Nobody is watching. That's also true of your product.

• You say "first principles" daily and have never derived one
• Your deck has a TAM slide in the trillions and no slide on how the thing works
• "We're a deep tech company" Your product is an API wrapper
• You have a photo in a lab coat from a 40-minute lab tour
• Your company name ends in "Labs" There is no lab
• Your pitch mentions quantum, fusion or AGI Bonus if all three
• Team page: four cofounders zero engineers
• You call reading Hacker News "research"
• Your first product was a waitlist
• You own a podcast mic but no lab equipment
• You posted "we're so back" after a pre-seed that was a grant
• Your scientific advisor is a professor who replied to one email