Run structured pivot-or-persevere decision

Diagnose and guide pivot-or-persevere decision

When a founder faces a critical go/no-go decision after PMF stall and needs data-driven clarity, not narrative hope.

• · venture workspace with founder-state.yaml, lof_ledger.md, pmf_dashboard.md, experiment logs

• · decision memo with new value hypothesis, thresholds, and success criteria

Founder has logged venture history and metrics; willing to be honest about data

• · Founder denies the data and pivots anyway (death-pivot)
• · Multiple pivots with no over-performing slice — sink cost fallacy
• · Pivot direction misses the real signal in cohort/feature/channel data

• · Includes failure-mode watch (death-pivot, who-drift, vanity-PMF detection)
• · Enforces over-performing-slice discovery before pivot direction
• · Reads venue history to avoid cyclical patterns