Money, reputation, conscience — the founder and operator decisions the Gita saw coming, worked end to end.
An acqui-hire pays you and your two seniors real money and zeroes out the four who took below-market pay on your word. The math is clean. We score it on four lenses that actually bite — and land on one committed call.
A founder catches a mid-level hire padding expense reports for seven months. For-cause today, a slow paper trail, or a soft exit that protects his next job? We run all three through the eight lenses — and find the one the founder keeps ducking.
A founder verbally promised an early hire 2% equity, wrote nothing down, and now a tight cap table makes that promise expensive. Four lenses sort honor-it, quietly-shrink-it, and split-the-difference — and name the one move that's forgery.
Eight months of runway, one signature — and a build that quietly breaks the thing your product was for. We score the survival-vs-svadharma fork on four lenses and make one committed call.
A founder finds a load-bearing engineer building something adjacent on weekends. The instinct is to fire fast and lawyer up. Four lenses separate the moat worth guarding from the wound wearing strategy's clothes.
Your co-founder holds equal equity and does half the work — and naming it makes you feel like the greedy one. We run one composite founder fork across four lenses and give a committed call.
A composite founder is one spreadsheet cell away from making payroll — and from committing fraud. We score the fudged metric on four lenses that actually bite, and hand you a disclosure test you can run tonight.
One synthetic founder dilemma, all eight lenses scored out loud, honesty and non-harm openly disagreeing — and a committed verdict that points at the one sentence you've been rounding down to 'fine.'