Give every founder in your cohort one way to test ideas
Every team in the cohort works the same way, so you can see who is making progress and every founder leaves with a Decision Record.
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Spot which cohort teams are stuck before demo day
See which teams haven’t tested their riskiest assumption by week four, while there’s still time to change course.
The situation
Some teams carry an untested assumption through the whole program. When it surfaces at demo day, they have already built around it. You need to see it in week four, while there’s still time to help.
What you find out
- Which teams haven’t tested their riskiest assumption, while there’s time to help.
- Where mentors should spend their next session.
- What each team tried and decided, so mentors don’t start every session from scratch.
Decision Recordworked example
- assumption
Restaurant owners will pay $99 a month for automatic supplier reorders.
- experiment
In week four the program lead sees no experiment open against this assumption. A mentor helps the team run a two-week pre-sale to 20 owners.
- success criteria · locked
At least 4 of 20 owners pay a deposit. Locked before the first pitch.
- evidence
1 of 20 paid.not met
decision
Change course
The team tests whether the same owners will pay for inventory counts, with six weeks of program left instead of none.
Founder decides; program lead spots the gap; mentor helps design the experiment.