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Portfolio Review

BLUEPRINT — every factory spun up at class level inherits this template. Instance data lives in .invisible/ventures/ (per child) and the weekly roll-up sits in .invisible/navigation/cash-flow/portfolio-review/. Never hardcode a business name, fund name, or founder in this file.

A portfolio compounds or decays. Weekly review is the instrument. This template rolls up N children under one parent — whether the parent is a fund, a factory, a founder, or an accelerator. Same contract regardless of N.

Business Alignment

QuestionAnswer
Parent entity[instance: factory / fund / founder]
Number of childrenN
Review cadenceWeekly / Monthly / Quarterly
Review dateYYYY-MM-DD
Who owns this review?[portfolio-architect agent / finance-captain]

Four Metrics

Every child reports four numbers. The portfolio is the sum plus the differentials.

MetricDefinitionRoll-up rule
MRRMonthly recurring revenueSum across N
BurnCash out per monthSum across N
RunwayMonths until cash zero at current burnWeighted by burn
Conviction5P composite scoreDrift tracked week-over-week

Rule: a child with conviction drift >20% in one week is a review flag, not a data point.

Per-Child Roll-Up

ChildMRRMRR Δ wkBurnRunwayConvictionConviction Δ wkStatus
[child 1]$±%$months/3125±ADVANCE / INVEST / RECLASSIFY / CUT

Status legend:

  • ADVANCE — on plan, keep feeding
  • INVEST — ahead of plan, increase allocation
  • RECLASSIFY — off plan but not dead, reassign
  • CUT — kill signals triggered, wind down

Conviction Drift Analysis

Conviction moves slower than revenue. When it drifts — pay attention.

ChildLast weekThis weekΔDriver
[name]X/3125Y/3125±[specific evidence]

Drivers to classify:

  • Customer evidence (new signal, lost signal)
  • Team evidence (hire, departure, capability gap closed)
  • Market evidence (new entrant, incumbent move, regulatory shift)
  • Product evidence (milestone hit, milestone missed)

Kill Tree

Every review names what dies if it doesn't move.

ChildKill criterion (specific, measurable)Weeks to kill dateAdvance path (if any)
[name][condition]N[what would change verdict]

Rule: no child enters the portfolio without kill criteria. No child stays more than one week past its kill date without explicit re-justification.

Allocation Proposal

With total resources (time, capital, attention) fixed, propose reallocation.

ResourceCurrent allocationProposedRationale
Founder time / week[% per child][% per child][evidence]
Cash deployed / month[$ per child][$ per child][evidence]
Team headcount[people per child][people per child][evidence]

Allocator lens (inversion + monopoly):

  • What's the dumb path if we continue current allocation?
  • Which child becomes a monopoly if it gets 2x more?
  • Conflict between lenses? State the conflict, don't paper over it.

Weekly Mirror

Every weekly review closes with a one-paragraph mirror posted to #meta as dream-team:

Portfolio review YYYY-MM-DD:
N children. $X MRR (±% wk). $Y burn. Z months runway.
Movers: [child +X%], [child -Y%], [child killed].
Next week: [one allocation change, one kill check].
Conviction drift: [which child, which direction, why].

Cross-Portfolio Patterns

When N > 3, patterns emerge. Name them.

PatternChildren showing itInterpretation
Customer overlap[list]Consolidation opportunity or cannibalization risk
Capability reuse[list]Platform extraction candidate
Market timing convergence[list]Focus bet
Regulatory exposure[list]Legal review trigger

Receipt

On completion, portfolio-architect writes a receipt to .invisible/context/receipts/ with:

  • factory_instance_id = parent factory (the class)
  • business_id = portfolio (reserved for class-level receipts)
  • phase = portfolio
  • task_id = portfolio.1
  • Primary artefact = .invisible/navigation/cash-flow/portfolio-review/YYYY-MM-DD.md

Context

Questions

  • If resources are fixed and N children are growing, which child gets starved — and does the starvation signal a kill or a reallocation?
  • What's the single portfolio-level metric that, if it decays, means the parent entity (factory/fund/founder) has lost the plot?
  • Which cross-child pattern, if you ignore it for two more weeks, becomes the thing that killed the portfolio?