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Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service

After subscribing to VSOS, you’ll complete a facilitated interview with 3 modules and 21 questions. The system adapts the questions based on your organization type (venture studio, corporate innovation, accelerator, or hybrid) and generates your personalized VDF v1.0 within 90 seconds. If any of your answers lack clarity, the system will ask follow-up questions to ensure your framework is quality-certified with a Grade B+ or higher.
The system scores your thesis against your calibrated VDF across 5 dimensions and produces a verdict within 60 seconds. You’ll receive a P1-P5 rating (P1 = Advance, P5 = Kill) with evidence-linked scoring. If the thesis scores P1 (80-100), it’s accepted into your portfolio pipeline and a new venture record is created.
The kill monitoring system continuously tracks health signals like capital events, milestone completions, and experiment results. When predefined thresholds are breached (universal criteria or corporate-specific criteria), a kill review is automatically triggered within 24 hours. You’ll receive a verdict with confidence score and rationale for kill, continue, or pivot recommendations.
The system adapts terminology, scoring dimensions, and graduation paths to your organization type. Corporate teams see ‘Strategic Fit’ instead of ‘Wedge Clarity’ and ‘Resource Efficiency’ instead of ‘Capital Efficiency’. Corporate graduation assessments present 5 paths (BU absorption, standalone product, license, external partnership, scale in place) while studios get spin-out readiness scoring for fundraising stages.
The system flags your VDF for review but doesn’t block gate execution. All governance gates continue using the last valid VDF version until you improve the quality. This ensures your portfolio decisions aren’t disrupted while you refine your framework.
Yes, the VSOS dashboard loads within 3 seconds and shows your portfolio summary (venture count, stage distribution, capital deployed, concentration risk), the 20 most recent gate verdicts, and your next 5 scheduled governance reviews. You’ll also see your current VDF version, quality grade, and changes from previous versions.
Gate executions stop immediately upon cancellation. Your data (VDF, Knowledge Graph, venture records) is retained for 90 days and can be exported as JSON during that period. After 90 days, all data is permanently deleted.
The system scores 6 readiness pillars (Market Validation 25%, Economic Viability 20%, Product Maturity 15%, Team Readiness 20%, Independence 10%, Fundability 10%) against stage-specific benchmarks (Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A). If you score 70+ overall with all pillars above 50, you’ll receive a graduation-ready verdict with a recommended path and transition plan outline.
The system handles this scenario gracefully. See the feature documentation for details on how Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service manages this case.
The system handles this scenario gracefully. See the feature documentation for details on how Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service manages this case.
The system handles this scenario gracefully. See the feature documentation for details on how Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service manages this case.
The system handles this scenario gracefully. See the feature documentation for details on how Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service manages this case.
The system handles this scenario gracefully. See the feature documentation for details on how Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service manages this case.
Yes. As venture studio managing partner or corporate innovation director, you can complete a facilitated interview (3 modules so that I receive a personalized, quality-certified VDF v1.
Yes. As portfolio manager, you can submit a new venture thesis (studio) or innovation initiative proposal (corporate) for AI-powered scoring against my organization’s calibrated VDF so that I receive a scored, evidence-linked qualification verdict (P1 Advance through P5 Kill) with the opportunity either accepted into the portfolio pipeline or rejected with documented rationale.
Yes. As managing partner (studio) or innovation director (corporate), you can trigger a graduation readiness assessment for a venture/initiative that has reached milestone maturity so that I receive a structured readiness report with specific pillar scores, recommended graduation path, and a clear go/no-go recommendation.
Yes. As VSOS subscriber, you can view my portfolio health so that I have real-time visibility into my governance state and can prepare for upcoming reviews.
Yes. System MUST support VSOS subscription lifecycle (create, activate, renew, cancel, expire) with 3 pricing tiers (AI_ONLY 12K/yr,ACCELERATOR12K/yr, ACCELERATOR 36K/yr, VENTURE_STUDIO_PARTNER $72K/yr) via Stripe recurring billing Specifically: Subscription creation completes in < 5 seconds; Stripe webhook processes payment within 30 seconds; subscription status transitions follow ACTIVE -> PAUSED -> CANCELLED -> EXPIRED lifecycle; tier limits enforced (5/15/unlimited ventures)
Yes. System MUST implement ICP-adaptive facilitated interview engine with 3 modules (21 questions) supporting 4 organization types (VENTURE_STUDIO, CORPORATE_INNOVATION, ACCELERATOR, HYBRID) Specifically: Organization type detected from Module 1 Q1 response within 500ms; subsequent questions display audience-appropriate variant; clarity scoring computed per-answer (1-5 scale) without AI cost; probe engine generates follow-up questions via Haiku within 2 seconds when clarity < 3.0
Yes. System MUST generate a Venture Decision Framework (VDF) v1.0 from completed interview data with all 12 sections populated, quality-certified via 6-dimension hybrid validation pipeline Specifically: VDF generation completes within 90 seconds; all 12 sections contain content derived from interview synthesis; quality certificate generated with grade, score, and dimension breakdown; VDF stored in vsos_decision_frameworks with version “1.0.0” and section hashes for drift detection
Yes. System MUST implement 5 governance gates (Opportunity Qualification, Portfolio Allocation, Kill Control, Graduation, VDF Annual Refresh) as BullMQ-scheduled workers with per-customer cadence configuration Specifically: Gate scheduler creates jobs at configured cadence per subscription (monthly/quarterly/4-8 weeks/milestone-triggered/annual); gate executor loads customer VDF, retrieves KG+RAG context, calls governance agent, scores result, generates verdict and artefact; each gate completes within 120 seconds; audit trail records all gate executions in vsos_gate_executions
Yes. System MUST implement a 5-dimension scoring engine that evaluates venture theses / initiative proposals against customer-calibrated VDF weights and produces P1-P5 verdicts Specifically: Scoring uses customer’s VDF weights (5 dimensions summing to 1.0); risk profile adjustments applied based on VDF riskProfile setting; verdict maps score to band (P1: 80-100, P2: 65-79, P3: 50-64, P4: 35-49, P5: 0-34); hard override rules enforced (any dimension = 1 triggers escalation); scoring completes within 30 seconds