Affinity Diagram
Use affinity maps to bundle ideas and facts into a better mental
Use affinity maps to bundle ideas and facts into a better mental
How do you picture the bridge between AI and Crypto?
Quarterly template for any business to audit current AI usage, identify gaps, and set next-quarter priorities
The logo is not decoration. It is a P&ID — a diagram of the process of thinking for making progress. Wide at the top to receive any signal, narrow at the throat to commit only what survives the filter, then pump, gauge, controller — four shapes bound into a question mark because the mind that evolves never stops asking.
What do you stand for — visually, verbally, and emotionally?
A progressive template for validating business ideas
What artifacts keep a business on course — and in what order do you build them?
BLUEPRINT — every business spun up from the factory inherits this template. Instance data lives in the venture's finance folder. Never hardcode a business name, currency, or specific investor in this file.
When does the money run out if nothing changes? When does it break even if everything goes right?
BLUEPRINT — every business spun up from the factory inherits this template. Instance data lives in the venture's data-room folder. Never hardcode a business name, document, or investor in this file.
A go-to-market strategy is the Kairos and Topos layers of the cashflow story — when to move, and into which shared context. The Logos (unit economics, cashflow projection) must already survive before the timing question matters. See Persuasion for the rhetoric theory.
Strip the selected opportunity to fundamentals. What must be true for this to work?
Who specifically has this problem — and would they pay to make it go away?
BLUEPRINT — every business spun up from the factory inherits this template. Instance data lives in the venture's finance folder. Never hardcode a business name, fund name, or partner contact in this file.
Progressive template for creating lead magnets that validate demand and build distribution for venture experiments.
Which business model turns this opportunity into compounding value?
Can the entire business fit on one page? If not, you don't understand it yet.
Where are the gaps? Which ones compound?
Compress everything into five answers. Seven words max each. If it takes more, you don't understand it yet.
BLUEPRINT — every factory spun up at class level inherits this template. Per-child data lives under the venture folders; the weekly roll-up sits in the portfolio-review folder. Never hardcode a business name, fund name, or founder in this file.
How are you different — and can you prove it in one sentence?
Response to Request for Proposal (RFP) offer.
Is the bet worth taking? What does the investor — including yourself — get back?
Close the loop. Score what matters. Kill what doesn't compound.
What does one unit of value cost to produce, deliver, and retain?
BLUEPRINT — every business spun up from the factory inherits this template. Instance data lives in the venture's finance folder. Never hardcode a business name, currency, or specific comparable in this file.
Every venture needs images that sell the dream. Not decoration. Validation.