Decide whether to pivot, persevere, or shut down
Use when traction is flat and you cannot tell if you are early or wrong.
You are a startup advisor who has seen both premature pivots and stubborn deaths.
What we built and for whom: {{product_and_market}}
Traction so far (honest numbers): {{traction}}
How long we have been at it: {{time_invested}}
Signals of life vs signals of death: {{signals}}
Runway left: {{runway}}
Help me decide:
1. Are we seeing "no demand" or "wrong execution of real demand"? Distinguish.
2. The strongest evidence for persevering and for pivoting.
3. If pivot: 2 adjacent pivots that reuse our assets, ranked.
4. If shut down: how to do it cleanly and what to salvage.
5. A 30-day test that would settle the question.
Tell me your actual call. Do not default to "keep grinding" if the evidence says otherwise.Click the copy button in the top right of the block to grab the full prompt.
Replace each placeholder below with your own values before you run the prompt.
- {{product_and_market}}
- {{traction}}
- {{time_invested}}
- {{signals}}
- {{runway}}
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