innovation

Persistent agent that maintains the Business Model Canvas and financial model as living documents reflecting current validated state. Delivers Monthly Financial Health Reviews, proposes canvas version updates after validation events, and flags runway emergencies immediately.

Persistent agent that maintains a continuous feedback loop between customers and the team. Delivers weekly Customer Signal Digests synthesising NPS, support tickets, churn events, and interview insights. Surfaces patterns before they become problems and keeps innov.local.md customer profiles current.

Persistent agent that ensures the founding team is always fundraising-ready. Tracks investor pipeline, prepares pre-meeting briefs, monitors data room completeness, drafts monthly investor updates, and provides pitch practice feedback. Activates when fundraising section is populated in innov.local.md.

Persistent agent that maintains a steady flow of fresh ideas into the venture's innovation pipeline. Delivers weekly Monday Innovation Briefs with 3 unsolicited ideas, market signals, and uncomfortable questions. Facilitates 100-idea sprints, pivot ideation, and analogy library on demand.

Activate for: business model canvas, BMC, business model, value proposition, customer segments, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships, cost structure, canvas build, canvas stress test, alternative business model, monetisation, pricing model, revenue model, how does the business make money, business design, Osterwalder. NOT for: unit economics or financial modelling (use financials), competitive analysis (use market), pitch deck (use pitch).

Activate for: customer discovery, user research, interview, empathy, jobs to be done, JTBD, persona, pain point, customer insight, discovery, interview guide, synthesis, insight map, interview notes, customer quotes, what do customers want, what problems do customers have, user needs, customer feedback, research synthesis, discovery sprint, problem validation, HMW problem statement, how might we, empathy map, journey map. NOT for: idea generation (use idea), assumption mapping (use hypothesis), pilot results analysis (use validate).

Activate for: unit economics, CAC, LTV, customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, payback period, churn, gross margin, breakeven, runway, burn rate, MRR, ARR, monthly recurring revenue, annual recurring revenue, financial model, revenue model, revenue projections, fundraising model, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, how much money do I need, how long will the money last, how many customers to break even, what are my unit economics, Series A readiness. NOT for: business model canvas (use canvas), pitch deck (use pitch), competitive analysis (use market).

Activate for: go to market, GTM, GTM strategy, go-to-market, ICP, ideal customer profile, target customer, who to sell to, channel strategy, sales channel, how to acquire customers, customer acquisition, outreach strategy, LinkedIn outreach, cold email, sales process, sales funnel, pricing strategy, price point, pricing tiers, positioning statement, positioning, how to position, first customers, early adopters, 90-day plan, launch plan, customer success, onboarding, retention. NOT for: customer discovery (use discovery), competitive analysis (use market), unit economics (use financials), pitch deck (use pitch).

Activate for: assumption, hypothesis, assumption map, MVP, minimum viable product, lean startup, what assumptions am I making, test my idea, what could go wrong, assumption risk, validate assumption, kill my idea, stress test, what should I test first, MVP design, MVP scoping, what to build, minimum feature set, success criteria, failure criteria, pivot criteria, build plan, riskiest assumption, leap of faith assumption, critical assumption. NOT for: idea generation (use idea), customer discovery (use discovery), pilot results analysis (use validate).

Activate for: idea, brainstorm, ideate, 100 ideas, idea generation, idea sprint, new product idea, innovation sprint, what should I build, what problem should I solve, idea evaluation, idea scoring, idea shortlist, pressure test idea, devil's advocate, adjacent possible, contrarian ideas, analogy ideas, crazy ideas, how might we, HMW, pivot idea, new venture concept. NOT for: customer discovery or interview synthesis (use discovery), assumption mapping (use hypothesis), pitch deck (use pitch).

Activate for: market, market size, TAM SAM SOM, competitive analysis, competitive landscape, competitors, competition, who else does this, market research, industry research, market sizing, bottom-up model, addressable market, serviceable market, competitive intelligence, how big is the market, who are my competitors, market positioning, differentiation, moat, unfair advantage, why us not them, SWOT. NOT for: go-to-market strategy (use gtm), pitch deck (use pitch), unit economics (use financials).

Activate for: pitch, investor deck, fundraising, pitch deck, pitch narrative, investor presentation, raise money, seed round, Series A, SAFE, convertible note, valuation, investor story, narrative architecture, pitch slides, executive summary, investor email, one pager, funding, angel investor, venture capital, VC pitch, pitch practice, hard questions, investor Q&A, term sheet, data room, investor brief. NOT for: unit economics or financial modelling (use financials), business model canvas (use canvas), market sizing (use market).

Activate for: sprint, innovation sprint, agile, sprint plan, sprint goal, sprint backlog, user story, acceptance criteria, definition of done, sprint review, sprint retrospective, velocity, iteration, two-week sprint, sprint planning, what to build this sprint, backlog prioritisation, story points, mid-sprint check, sprint close, assumption update, learning sprint. NOT for: idea generation (use idea), assumption mapping (use hypothesis), pilot results analysis (use validate).

Activate for: validate, build measure learn, BML, pivot, persevere, pilot results, what did we learn, experiment results, assumption test results, was I right, did it work, should I pivot, what should I change, learning synthesis, validated learning, invalidated assumption, pilot analysis, what our pilot taught us, early customer data, what customers told us, post-pilot analysis, pivot or continue, kill or continue. NOT for: assumption mapping (use hypothesis), idea generation (use idea), sprint planning (use sprint).