Every new venture proposal carries assumptions dressed as facts. WorldbyFlow decomposes a proposal into the assumptions it rests on and grades each against named precedent, including the attempts that died and what killed them, so the pitch meets its graveyard before it meets the budget.
Written for Runs an internal venture or new-products function.·Runs in the Technology domain
An innovation function is judged on what it chose not to fund as much as what it did. The scans here are built for that judgment: a stress-test of an idea against precedent, a grading of the technology hype behind it, a map of what the venture would actually need, a structured hunt for the problem worth solving, and a read on the labs producing the science your bets depend on.
A proposal decomposed into its load-bearing assumptions, each graded against named precedent including the ventures that failed and why. Closes on the cheapest test that would retire the biggest assumption.
Capability claims about a technology graded as demonstrated, independently replicated, self-reported or asserted without evidence. The read before betting a venture on a trend.
An objective decomposed into what it actually requires, each need mapped to a real named solution or flagged as open. The plan behind the plan.
A problem worth solving, worked into candidate approaches with precedent for each. The structured version of the brainstorm.
A read on a research lab: what it has actually published and shipped, who it is, where its record is thin. Due diligence on the science behind a bet.
The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.
Read the graveyard section first. If it names the failed attempt you were already worried about, and the reason, the tool has earned its place.
What is demonstrated and what is only asserted. The grade a venture committee should see beside the market size.
The requirements with real named solutions or open flags. The honest scope before the first hire.
One pass that argues against the venture the way the toughest member of the committee will.
Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.
Share the stress-test as a page with the proposing team, or export it as a PDF for the venture committee pack.
Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →
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