that-stack

Qualifies the startup against the 2026 Silkroad Innovation Hub programs — Alchemist Silkroad SV Residency and Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield — with pass/fail eligibility, deadline math, real cost/benefit in dollars, and a gap-closing plan. Use when the founder asks about accelerators, US expansion, pitch competitions, or whether Alchemist/TechCrunch-track programs are worth it.

Audits whether an AI product is a defensible system or a wrapper — 6-layer stack scoring, moat check, trend positioning — and maps where AI cuts costs in any startup's operations into a top-3 automation plan. Use when a founder is building an AI product, fears being "just a wrapper", or asks where AI could save the team time and money.

Kazakhstan startup ecosystem navigator — Astana Hub membership, 0% tax regime, grants, accelerators, Digital Nomad visa/residency, venture funding, export programs. Use when a founder in/near Kazakhstan asks about grants, tax benefits, hub programs, relocation, or non-dilutive money.

Maps direct, indirect, and status-quo competitors with live web research, mines negative reviews for unsolved problems, builds a feature/price matrix, and finds the free-niche positioning gap. Use when a founder asks who they compete with, claims "we have no competitors", or right after /market-size.

Runs customer development (кастдев) end to end — PREP builds the full 4-block interview kit with legends and scripts, REHEARSE role-plays the respondent and grades the founder against the 9 interview rules, ANALYZE turns raw notes into cross-respondent conclusions and a PSF verdict. Use when a founder is about to interview users, wants to practice interviewing, or has interview notes to debrief.

Runs the founder personal-strategy session — three pillars, three-horizon cascade tables, a quarterly focus card with authenticity checks, psychotype identification, and an explicit NO-list. Use when a founder feels scattered, plans a quarter or year, suspects they're in the wrong role, asks what to focus on or drop, or /that-stack flags stage 0.

The Friday 30-minute operating ritual — scores last week binary, forces PERSEVERE/PIVOT/KILL on every HADI cycle against pre-registered thresholds, aims next week at the point of maximum uncertainty, and commits a top-3. Use every Friday, at week's end, or whenever the founder asks "how did this week go / what do I do next week".

Round strategy per VC mechanics — stage diagnosis on the de-risking ladder, round sizing, valuation logic, tiered investor pipeline, data room checklist, and the honest "should you even raise VC" test. Use when the founder says "we're raising", asks how much to raise or at what valuation, or an investor conversation turns serious.

Runs the founder's HADI experiment machine — turns raw beliefs into a ranked falsifiable-hypothesis backlog, designs pre-registered weekly experiments, and reads results into PERSEVERE/PIVOT/KILL decisions. Use when a founder voices an untested belief ("users want..."), asks what to test next, is designing an experiment, or has experiment results to interpret.

Forces the founder to commit to ONE startup idea — scores every candidate on mission-fit, authenticity, trend-fit, fanatic-segment reachability, and ICE, kills the rest onto an explicit not-now list, and writes a signed commitment with the riskiest assumption. Use when a founder juggles several ideas, keeps switching, must lock an idea before validation work starts, or /that-stack flags stage 1.

Generates the monthly investor update from that-stack artifacts — real numbers from metrics.md, insights from closed HADI cycles, specific asks, zero invented figures. Use at month end, when an investor pings "any news?", or before any fundraise conversation.

Sizes the startup's market with sourced numbers — runs the five-goals market analysis interview, classifies the market, web-researches live data, computes TAM/SAM/SOM top-down and bottom-up, and renders a kill/continue verdict. Use when a founder asks "how big is my market", needs market validation before building or pitching, or /that-stack flags stage 2.

Facilitates the 10-block Mission Canvas to distill the founder's mission into one sentence, a Mission→MTP→HHG goal ladder, and a client-transformation statement. Use when a founder can't articulate their why, doubts the venture, smells burnout coming, has just finished /founder-strategy, or /that-stack flags stage 0.

Ruthlessly scopes the MVP — builds the product genotype (PMDN wants × UGQN solutions), applies the invent/borrow/hack/drop rule per gene, and cuts to a ≤2-week build that meets the 4-point definition of done. Use when the value prop is set and the founder asks "what do we actually build first", or when the feature list keeps growing.

Sets up the startup's metric system — a stage-correct north star, a 3–5 driver input tree, unit-economics guardrails, and the weekly dashboard that /founder-week consumes. Use when starting the operating rhythm, at each quarter boundary, or when nobody can name the one number that matters.

Builds or critiques an investor pitch deck slide-by-slide per a strict 10-part structure, pulling every number, quote, and story from startup/ artifacts into a sourced numbers ledger. Use when a founder needs a deck for investors or a program, wants an existing deck scored, or /that-stack flags stage 7.

Mock investor panel plus pitch-delivery coaching — three investor personas grill the founder, every answer gets graded, and a full delivery prep card (anchor, breathing, entrance, pauses) comes out the other end. Use when a pitch, demo day, or investor meeting is coming and the founder needs to rehearse under fire.

Designs value-based pricing — identifies the result the client actually buys, quantifies it in their money, anchors against competitor tariffs, builds three tiers around a value metric, and stress-tests the price through unit economics. Use when a founder asks what to charge, keeps hearing «Дорого», or /unit-econ flagged price as the weak lever.

Builds the founder's complete sales system — ICP, product-customized SPIN (СПИН) scripts, decision-unit map, objection bank, КП skeleton, and a 7-stage pipeline with reverse-funnel math — then rehearses it in a mock ЛПР call. Use when the founder needs to start selling, fix a leaking funnel, prepare for B2B meetings, or is tempted to hire salespeople.

Picks the startup's beachhead segment — brainstorms narrow candidates, scores them against the 5 fanatic criteria, models user situations, and distills the 3 most painful problem hypotheses. Use when a founder has an idea but no confirmed first segment, says the product is "for everyone", or must decide whom to interview first.

Founder stack router — diagnoses what stage your startup is actually at and prescribes which that-stack skills to run this week. Use when starting out, feeling stuck, unsure what to work on next, or asked "what should I do now" about a startup.

Runs a foresight scan — maps the startup against the 21 Future Human 2.0 trends, national priority lists, and joker wild-card stress tests, then writes the Trend Radar section of startup/market.md. Use when a founder needs a "why now", is choosing between markets or ideas, wants strategy stress-tested against shocks, or /that-stack flags stage 1.

Interrogates the founder for real numbers, computes CAC, LTV, ARPU, payback and LTV/CAC, audits against the seven classic unit-economics errors, and renders a convergence verdict with ranked fix levers. Use when a founder asks "does my business model work", wants to scale ad spend, or needs investor-ready unit metrics.

Builds an evidence-backed value proposition — extracts confirmed client wants (хотелки) from custdev insights, classifies them PMDN, writes jobstories, fills the X-Y-Z-P-T-V formula slot by slot from quotes, and picks one of three positioning angles. Use when custdev interviews are done and the founder needs positioning, a pitch, or an answer to "what do we actually sell, to whom, and why us".