GO MOVE FORWARD
You have evidence worth acting on.
Use it to make the next commitment deliberately.
Continue independently or, where relevant, explore BUSINESS PROOF support for the next stage.
YOUR BUSINESS PROOF RESULT
The evidence is in. What does it support?
You’ve worked through the workbook.
You’ve tested the assumptions.
You’ve gathered the evidence.
The BUSINESS PROOF Engine has brought it together.
Now you receive one of three outcomes:
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Your evidence decides.
02 / YOUR BUSINESS PROOF RESULT
Not just a result. An explanation of what the evidence means.
GO | PIVOT | STOP is the headline.
The value sits behind it.
Your BUSINESS PROOF Result is designed to help you understand what drove the outcome and what deserves your attention next.
It should help you see:
- your strongest evidence
- the important constraints
- what the numbers are telling you
- the biggest issue requiring attention
- the next actions suggested by the evidence
Understand why. Then decide what comes next.
03 /GO
The evidence supports moving forward.
A GO means there is sufficient evidence across the critical areas to justify moving forward to the next stage.
It does not mean guaranteed success.
It does not mean every risk has disappeared.
And it does not automatically mean:
quit the job, borrow the money or make the biggest commitment tomorrow.
It means the proposition has earned the right to proceed.
The next decision can now be made from a stronger evidence base.
GO MOVE FORWARD
04 /PIVOT
Something is working. Something needs changing.
A PIVOT means there is meaningful evidence supporting parts of the proposition, but one or more important assumptions need changing, strengthening or testing again.
That could mean:
- the customer
- the price
- the offer
- the route to market
- the cost structure
- the business model
- the amount of capital required
PIVOT is not failure.
It means the work has exposed something important before the next commitment is made.
Use the result to understand what needs changing.
Then fix it.
Retest it.
And gather better evidence.
PIVOT FIX & RETEST
05 /STOP
The evidence does not currently support proceeding with this version.
A STOP means the evidence gathered through the Assessment does not currently justify making the next significant commitment to the proposition in its present form.
That does not mean:
you could never build a successful business.
It means this version has not produced enough evidence to justify increasing the risk.
That can be extremely valuable information.
If the evidence prevents you from committing significant savings, borrowing money, signing a lease, ordering stock or spending another year pursuing the wrong version of the idea, the result has done an important job.
STOP REASSESS & REBUILD
06 / A DECISION POINT
Your result tells you what the evidence supports now.
BUSINESS PROOF does not predict the future.
A GO does not guarantee success.
A PIVOT does not mean the business will fail unless you follow one prescribed route.
A STOP does not mean the idea could never become viable.
Your result reflects the evidence gathered through the Assessment at this point in time.
That gives you something more useful than blind confidence:
a stronger basis for deciding what to do next.
07 / BEHIND YOUR RESULT
See where the evidence is strong — and where it is not.
Your result brings together evidence across the commercial areas tested through BUSINESS PROOF.
Rather than leaving you with a single unexplained outcome, the result is designed to show you where the proposition is supported and where important constraints remain.
- STRONGEST EVIDENCE
- What currently gives the proposition support.
- CONSTRAINTS
- What is limiting the proposition or creating uncertainty.
- NUMBERS
- What the commercial figures are telling you.
- BIGGEST ISSUE
- The most important area requiring attention.
- NEXT ACTIONS
- What the evidence suggests should happen next.
08 / AFTER YOUR RESULT
The result gives you a direction. What you do next is still a decision.
09 / REDUCE UNNECESSARY RISK
The earlier you learn, the cheaper the lesson can be.
A useful result is not only one that tells you to continue.
Sometimes the most valuable evidence is the evidence that changes your plan before the consequences become larger.
Before you:
- leave the job
- invest the savings
- borrow the money
- sign the lease
- order the stock
- build the expensive version
- commit another year
find out what you reasonably can.
Test before you commit.
Evidence over enthusiasm.
Reduce unnecessary risk.
10 / BEFORE → AFTER
What changed once you had the evidence?
At the beginning of BUSINESS PROOF, you make your own prediction.
What do you think the result will be?
GO? PIVOT? STOP?
At the end, you can compare that belief with what the evidence actually showed.
The difference matters.
Because BUSINESS PROOF is not only about the final result.
It is about what you learned between:
“I think…”
and:“The evidence shows…”
YOU’VE GOT AN IDEA.
Now prove it.
Before you make the bigger commitment, spend £99 finding out what the evidence says.
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Your evidence decides.