How the advisor works

A few behaviors hold across every skill. Knowing them makes the plugin predictable — and explains the moments where it deliberately slows down.

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One question at a time

Every conversational flow asks exactly one focused question, never a wall of forms. This is a hard rule in the plugin’s design: single questions keep you thinking instead of pattern-matching your way through a questionnaire. Expect idea elaboration, script drafting, and survey design to feel like a real conversation with a co-founder, not an intake form.

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Propose before write

The advisor always shows you what it’s about to save and gets your confirmation first. Status changes to hypotheses are confirmed per item. The one deliberate exception: the competitor watch pass applies its batch of updates directly and gives you a recap to review, because confirming twenty small refreshes one by one helps no one.

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Bias-isolated analysis

The moments that require judgment — analyzing an interview, assessing hypothesis states, reassessing your plan — don’t happen in your chat. They run as separate analysis passes that read only the files and reason from evidence alone. Why that matters: if you just spent ten minutes excitedly pitching your new angle, an analyst living in that same conversation would inherit your enthusiasm. The isolated pass can’t be swayed by it — it sees what customers actually said, not how you feel about it. When one of these passes runs you’ll wait a moment longer, and it’s worth it: the verdict is closer to what a skeptical outsider would conclude.

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Research runs on the live web

Competitor discovery, market research, and hypothesis research dispatch a background researcher that searches the real web and reads the actual pages — review sites, communities, directories — rather than answering from memory. Consequences worth knowing:

• Findings carry confidence flags, and single-source claims are marked as such.
• Every research run is saved to startup/research/ with a dated filename, so expensive work is never repeated and you can always check what a conclusion was based on.
• Results are only as good as the public web — a stealth competitor with no footprint won’t be found, and that absence is reported honestly rather than padded.

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Voice input is a first-class citizen

The plugin assumes you’ll think out loud. Dump long, unstructured voice notes — the messier the better — and the advisor organizes them into artifacts. It also assumes transcription garbles proper nouns: when a competitor name or technical term looks misheard, it asks you to spell it rather than guessing.

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Nudges, never blocks

The plugin has opinions — interviews before surveys, distribution before building, hypotheses before scripts — and it will tell you when you’re skipping a step. But prerequisites are soft: it challenges once, and if you push back, it helps you do the thing you asked for. Convention checks on files work the same way — a gentle note if something’s off, never a refusal to save your work.

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Privacy: no telemetry, ever

The plugin doesn’t phone home. Nothing about you, your idea, or your files is sent anywhere automatically. The entire feedback mechanism is this: at four milestones (first competitor landscape, first interview analyzed, first MVP plan, first market brief), the advisor may offer an optional, anonymous feedback link — each offered at most once, ever. Saying “stop asking” turns all future offers off for good. The only thing the link carries is a milestone tag, and only if you choose to submit.

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