Ventures and phases

A venture is anything a builder undertakes. Each one has a venture.json and moves through five phases. A phase ends when its exit criteria are met, and the owner decides when that is.

Phase	The question it asks
Discovery	Does a real problem exist, and who has it?
Validation	Will people adopt this solution and keep using it?
Beachhead	Can we win one segment repeatably, at a profitable cost?
Scale	How fast can we take the mass market?
Platform	What will others build on, so the venture can’t be displaced?

Each phase is also a route group: the routes the need-now score suggests in that phase.

Group	The phase asks	Routes
`(discovery)`	Does a real problem exist, and who has it?	5
`(validation)`	Will people adopt this solution and keep using it?	20
`(beachhead)`	Can we win one segment repeatably, at a profitable cost?	26
`(scale)`	How fast can we take the mass market?	25
`(platform)`	What will others build on, so the venture can't be displaced?	23

Time to ready

mentura system/time-to-ready run measures how long the venture took to be running, and how long each layer took to hold what the current phase needs.