Money, reputation, conscience — the founder and operator decisions the Gita saw coming, worked end to end.
A founder sets the free limit not where the product stays healthy, but exactly where users hit a wall mid-task and pay out of frustration — and knows it. A worked reading on telling honest monetization from manufactured pain.
A composite founder dilemma: a competitor's insider offers to bring their old company's playbook, and the same disloyalty you'd benefit from is the one you'd fear in your own future hires. Run it through four lenses that actually bite.
A solo founder corrupts customer data at 11:40pm and drafts two status notes: the true one that names the bad deploy, and the softened one that survives screenshots. KarmaLens reads the decision through the eight lenses where they apply, showing the weighing without computing a verdict.
A founder drafts a glowing testimonial to 'save the client time,' the happy customer signs it with one tweak, and now it's on the homepage — technically approved, quietly authored by the person it praises. We score the gap between consent and authorship.
A founder quietly cut a leaving account a steep retention deal to save the logo. Now the loyal, full-price customer found out. We score the collision between honesty about the past and survival of the present on four lenses.
A composite founder knot: fire before the one-year cliff and save the equity, or let it vest and honor the handshake. We score the difference between a defensible reason and a convenient one — and name who pays for each read.
A solo founder is coached to perform certainty he doesn't have to close the round. KarmaLens runs the composite through four lenses — and shows why the mask raises the round but loses the crisis.
You advertised a no-questions refund to close early sales. Now a churn spike means honoring every refund empties the account that makes payroll. Two debts, one balance — a reading works through all four moves, using the eight lenses where they bear on the decision.
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.