Your first venture

A new venture starts in the discovery phase, which asks whether a real problem exists and who has it. The framework’s first job is to keep you from overbuilding, so it begins by telling you what the venture needs now.


mentura system/need-now run --venture my-venture

Each record type comes back as one of these:

Status	Meaning
suggest now	Worth writing in this phase
coming soon	Needed in the next phase
held	Already written
hold back	Not needed yet; writing it now is overbuilding
layer off	Its layer is off for this venture

In discovery, the first suggestion is usually the problem record of the validation kit: the claim that a problem exists, with the evidence behind it. Read its layout first, which gives you the kit’s skills, references and template:


mentura purpose/validation/problem layout --venture my-venture
mentura purpose/validation/problem template

Then write the record and check it:


mentura purpose/validation/problem write --venture my-venture --input problem.json --derived-from interviews/notes.md
mentura purpose/validation/problem check --venture my-venture

mentura system/overview view --venture my-venture shows the venture at a glance.