Money, reputation, conscience — the founder and operator decisions the Gita saw coming, worked end to end.
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, the eight lenses used as instruments where they fit, honesty and non-harm openly in tension — and a committed call that names the one sentence you have been rounding down to fine.