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Week 2 — Apply · Day 11 of 30
The unread one — where the framework earns its keep.
Yesterday
Yesterday the obvious one. Today the unread one — and probably the one where you'll feel the framework working hardest.
Wildcards are the asymmetric bet category. A pre-revenue, stealth-ish, or deeply-technical org is the hardest to read with a gut alone. The composite turns 'unreadable' into a number, and the number gives you a frame for the founder conversation.
A composite score that gives you a defensible reason to take a meeting (or not). 'Score 4/6, asking about hiring plan' is a stronger frame than 'feels interesting.'
A wildcard that scores 6/6 is rare but real. When it happens, the second meeting is almost mandatory — the framework just told you something nobody else has surfaced.
Bonus
The wildcard is where the composite generates the most diligence-conversation leverage. The score becomes the question, not the conclusion.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow: compare all three. We'll pull out the signal that pulled the heaviest weight across your candidates — it's usually the one you'd have skipped.
Curriculum: /challenge · Methodology: /methodology · Paper: ssrn.com/abstract=6606558