ProInstincts / Field Systems
Which gate are you standing at?
The first NO wins.
Five questions. Five gates. Find the one standing between your idea and recurring revenue.
Dated evidence only. Your first NOT YET is where you start working. Founder instinct, engineered.
No invented benchmarks. Every scenario labeled. No pitch in the quiz.
Score evidence, not enthusiasm.
Answer YES only if you can point to a receipt, log, or dated metric today. If you'd need to go find it, that's a NOT YET for now. Questions run in gate order. The first NOT YET wins.
Five questions. About two minutes. No email needed for your result.Five gates.
One place to start.
SIGNAL
Instinct says build. Evidence asks for money first.
Can you complete, with dated evidence, "[buyer] loses [quantified cost] weekly to [problem]", backed by 5 verbatim quotes from people with authority to pay?
PROOF
A waitlist is applause. A payment is a vote.
Have 3+ independent buyers paid money, pilot, deposit, or pre-order for the outcome, before the product existed? (Friends, family, and nodding heads don't count.)
AUDIENCE
You cannot A/B test a launch. You can rehearse the motion.
Does one attributable channel deliver ≥50% of your qualified signups over 8+ weeks, with consent to contact them again?
BLADE
Can a new buyer reach the promised outcome within one day without you guiding them, and: B2B = 10+ paying customers? B2C = activation ≥40% and D1 ≥25% on eligible cohorts?
COMPOUND
New sales feed this month. Retention feeds every year.
Each month can you reconcile the full MRR bridge to billing records, and state logo churn, gross margin, and LTV:CAC with denominators?