Choose what to get done
Capital character on the growth and profit axes
A deterministic function mapping a venture's funding terms onto Christensen's two-axis capital-character model and returning whether the capital is good or bad for a new-market disruption, with the quadrant label.
Cash-flow watch register
A structured cash-flow watch register listing the cash metrics to track (cash balance, net burn, runway months, revenue), each with a current value, an alert threshold, a direction, and an accountable owner, so cash flow is monitored obsessively rather than discovered too late.
Cofounder vs employee cash-and-equity cost
A side-by-side of cash burned and equity given for filling a role as a cofounder versus an employee over the runway window, plus the company valuation at which the cofounder's extra equity costs more than the cash saved, so the founder can decide which is economically cheaper.
Compliance control and evidence register
The founder gets a structured control register that maps each required control to its framework, the evidence artifact that satisfies it, its present/missing status, and an owner, so the documentation and controls needed to pass a compliance review are enumerated and tracked rather than improvised.
Customer lifetime value (simple and discounted)
The customer lifetime in years, the simple LTV, and the discount-adjusted LTV you can put against CAC.
Default alive or default dead
A pure function that, given current cash, monthly expenses, monthly revenue, and monthly revenue growth rate, returns whether the company reaches profitability before cash runs out (default alive) or not (default dead), the crossover month, and the lowest cash point.
Discovery-driven assumptions checklist for a new venture
A structured discovery-driven planning register: the required financial targets stated up front, then a rank-ordered assumptions checklist where every assumption has a test, a cost, and a kill/continue trigger, per Christensen's reversed four-step method.
Economic value to the customer and viable price range (EVE)
You get the total economic value to the customer (EVE) and the viable price range (ceiling and floor) for one product in one customer segment, built up from a next-best-alternative reference price and a set of signed monetary value-driver deltas.
Enterprise procurement readiness gap register
The founder gets a structured procurement-readiness register that lists each expected enterprise artifact (docs, SLAs, support infra, controls), its present/partial/missing status, and a remediation order, so the work to satisfy a procurement review is sequenced before the contract stalls on it.
Equity for a founder's cash contribution
The extra ownership percentage a founder earns by putting cash into the company beyond their labor, priced off the agreed pre-seed valuation, plus the resulting post-contribution ownership split, so the founders can settle IOUs before financing.
Fatal pinch diagnosis
A pure function that classifies a startup against Paul Graham's fatal-pinch definition: default-dead AND slow growth AND not enough time, returning the overall verdict and which of the three conditions are true.
Foothold fit against the nonconsumption pattern
A structured foothold-fit assessment that records, for each of Christensen's four elements of the nonconsumption pattern, the buyer's claim, supporting evidence, and a pass/partial/fail mark, with an aggregate fit verdict computed by rule.