The kill funnel — live count
0 generated → 0 shortlisted → 0 killed · 0 downgraded · 0 survived clean
⚑ The tribunal's pick
The Placement Stack — #1 + #2 + #3 braided: recruiters chase you, the floor pays by ~day 45, the video CV breaks the pile.
Why it wins: it's the only lane where your proven bug — cold contact that must be self-started daily — physically cannot fire, and where your edge (live shipped work) is visible to the buyer in sixty seconds.
CROWNED: THE PLACEMENT STACK (tap any card's crown to overrule)
The criteria that did the killing
Every idea faced these five. Most died on the second one.
1 · First rand inside 60 days
The only ranking metric. Not "good business" — money, soon.
2 · The bug test — the executioner
Three weeks of real data: daily self-started cold contact collapses in your hands. Any idea running on that engine died, however pretty. Ideas where someone else supplies the prospects, structure, or deadline survived.
3 · Distribution already exists
Your own locked rule — no path to buyers, no rank, no matter the moat.
4 · Runs on what you already shipped
SIGNAL, THE FORM, the phantom engine, the portfolio — assets, not fantasies.
5 · Verified gates
Checked live during the run: POPIA consent rules on cold marketing · Wise doesn't serve SA for USD receiving · solar installs fell 60–80% · BPO night-shift listings currently open.