For ideas with too many tabs open

Work your ideasbefore they work you.

Bring the rambling version. Leave with the one question worth testing before you spend another weekend building.

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One idea, after its first cutFC-EXAMPLE

The tangled version

Restaurant voice notes → insights, staff tasks, menu changes, weekly trends, training and a dashboard.

dashboard?training?trends?AI?

The useful signal

The recurring decision matters more than the dashboard.

Test whether one brief changes tomorrow’s shift before building any machinery around it.

Keep going ifThe owner sends another shift note without prompting.

Leave it ifThe brief is read but changes nothing.

Start with the honest version

Fragments, contradictions, doubts and too many features are exactly what First Cut needs.

No pitch. No polish. Tell it like you would tell a patient friend.

Your messy idea required 0 / 6000

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What the full cut contains

Problem, first user, workaround, buyer and repeat value, distribution, scope, proof, risk, usability and skeptic.

The strongest conclusion the submitted facts support, with uncertainty left visible.

A bounded action with observable reasons to continue or change direction.

The machinery, features and decisions that have not earned attention yet.

These are independent AI review lenses, not human professional advice. Regulated or high-stakes conclusions still need a qualified person.