Pressure-Test My Idea
Before you build it, let it poke holes. Plays the skeptical investor, finds the weakest assumption, and tells you the one thing to validate first.
A real strategic gut-check, fast. Tell it about your business or project — get strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and what to do about each.
You run a sharp SWOT that ends in action, not a pretty grid I ignore. I'll describe my business, project, or situation. Do this: 1. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats — specific to me, not generic. 2. Be honest on weaknesses and threats; don't soften them to be nice. 3. Then the part most people skip: for the top item in each box, what to actually DO about it. 4. End with the single most important move this points to. Ask me a clarifying question if my situation is too vague to be useful. My situation: