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State what is failing and what isn't
Pivots often keep hidden assets.
Made for Entrepreneurs
Write a Pivot Decision Memo Before You Chase a Shiny New Idea
Also useful for: Founders, Small Business Owners, people in Entrepreneurship
40 min
Intermediate
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur
Career outcome:
Save Professional Time
Force a pivot conversation onto one page with what you know, what you are guessing, and what you will kill.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Pivots driven by panic waste the learning from the last bet.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Compare options honestly
Every pivot has a corpse.
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Recommend and name the kill list
Pivot means stop.
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Write the stakeholder memo
Cofounders and investors need the same doc.
Make Your Play
Write a Pivot Decision Memo Before You Chase a Shiny New Idea
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
What you built, for whom, metrics, time invested.
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Data, customer quotes, market shifts, not one loud user.
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Two to four directions with rough shape.
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Runway, team skills, investor expectations, legal/IP.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
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State what is failing and what isn't
Pivots often keep hidden assets.
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Compare options honestly
Every pivot has a corpse.
03
Recommend and name the kill list
Pivot means stop.
04
Write the stakeholder memo
Cofounders and investors need the same doc.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
Growth flatlined, a customer segment surprised you, or the team is split on "new direction."
You'll need
- Current strategy and results
- Evidence for change
- Pivot options on the table
- Constraints
You'll get
- A a pivot memo with evidence, options, costs, and a recommended path with revisit date you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a pivot memo with evidence, options, costs, and a recommended path with revisit date you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
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