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# Frequently Asked Questions

> Find answers to common questions about the Fiftyknots platform

# Frequently Asked Questions

## Living Venture Decision Model - Feature as a Service

<Accordion title="How do I get started creating my Venture Decision Framework?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens when I submit a new venture idea for evaluation?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="How does the system know when to recommend killing a venture?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What's different about VSOS for corporate innovation teams versus venture studios?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens if my VDF quality drops below Grade B after an update?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="Can I see my portfolio health and upcoming governance reviews?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens if I cancel my subscription mid-year?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="How does graduation assessment work for ventures ready to spin out?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens when a subscriber's VDF quality drops below Grade B after a gate-driven update? The system flags the VDF for review but does not block gate execution - gates use the last valid VDF version.?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens when how does the system handle concurrent gate executions for the same venture? BullMQ queue ensures serial execution per venture via job deduplication with `ventureId` as the dedupe key.?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens when what happens if a corporate customer's executive sponsor is removed and no replacement is nominated within 30 days? CORP-KILL-001 fires, pausing all initiatives associated with that sponsor.?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens when a mid-cycle corporate event (strategy pivot, M&A) triggers an unscheduled portfolio review while a regular quarterly review is already scheduled within 2 weeks? The mid-cycle review takes precedence and resets the quarterly schedule.?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="What happens when what happens if a subscriber cancels their subscription mid-year? All data is retained for 90 days. Gate executions stop immediately. VDF and KG data can be exported as JSON before deletion.?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="Can I complete a facilitated interview (3 modules?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="Can I submit a new venture thesis (studio) or innovation initiative proposal (corporate) for AI-powered scoring against my organization's calibrated VDF?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="Can I trigger a graduation readiness assessment for a venture/initiative that has reached milestone maturity?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="Can I view my portfolio health?">
  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.
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<Accordion title="Does the system support VSOS subscription lifecycle (create, activate, renew, cancel, expire) with 3 pricing tiers (AI_ONLY $12K/yr, ACCELERATOR $36K/yr, VENTURE_STUDIO_PARTNER $72K/yr) via Stripe recurring billing?">
  Yes. System MUST support VSOS subscription lifecycle (create, activate, renew, cancel, expire) with 3 pricing tiers (AI\_ONLY $12K/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)
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<Accordion title="Does the system implement ICP-adaptive facilitated interview engine with 3 modules (21 questions) supporting 4 organization types (VENTURE_STUDIO, CORPORATE_INNOVATION, ACCELERATOR, HYBRID)?">
  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
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<Accordion title="Does the system 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?">
  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
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<Accordion title="Does the system implement 5 governance gates (Opportunity Qualification, Portfolio Allocation, Kill Control, Graduation, VDF Annual Refresh) as BullMQ-scheduled workers with per-customer cadence configuration?">
  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`
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<Accordion title="Does the system implement a 5-dimension scoring engine that evaluates venture theses / initiative proposals against customer-calibrated VDF weights and produces P1-P5 verdicts?">
  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
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