v4 Part 4 and Template F
v4 Part 4 and Template F (30 min)
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WEEK 27 · Mon 22 Mar → Sun 28 Mar 2027
UNDERSTAND · PRACTICE · KEEP EVIDENCE
Read the week in plain language, refresh the foundations, follow each challenge step by step, and check what evidence to keep. Includes worked examples, answer keys and prompts for visual study resources.
Use this within your existing weekly blocks. Your learning completion and research evidence remain in your current tracker and week files.
START HERE · 2 MINUTES
STATUS
| Deliverable | Acceptance | State |
|---|---|---|
loop-audit-offer.mdBuild create + |
Rewrite the Loop Audit one-pager with scope, two-week effort assumptions, three candidates, one prototype and two preprints as proof. Acceptance: Finish the fixed-scope Loop Audit one-pager and personalized follow-ups for the three strongest qualified leads. | |
audit-outreach-drafts.mdBuild create + |
Prepare ten tailored messages for five engaged founders, three established companies and two fund contacts; respect the existing connection ladder. Acceptance: Every recipient has a verified role, relevant proof and a clear small ask. | |
discovery-kit.mdBuild create + |
Prepare a discovery agenda, qualification checklist, proposal template and three-call target with booked/held statuses. Acceptance: Current opportunities have owner, next action/date and delivery-capacity estimate. | |
study-notes.mdLearning create + |
Selected exact free resources; bounded lesson/exercise; separate solution; quiz and grading rubric; Peter's answers and gaps when executed | |
founder-paper.mdFounder papers create + |
Verified source and P11 digest; authentic question and connection sentence; access limitations | |
branding-pack.mdBranding create + |
Wednesday note, Sunday build log, X adaptation, figure/caption/alt text and the week's special asset; each claim linked to real proof | |
opportunity-actions.mdOpportunities create + |
Qualified target/role, source/date, ladder stage, next action, message/interview/proposal draft and actual status | |
evidence.mdEvidence & review open & edit ↗ |
Actual paths/URLs, versions, checks/metrics, preparation versus execution state and external receipts when applicable | |
review.mdEvidence & review open & edit ↗ |
Checklist, learning assessment, gate status, shortfalls, next actions and carryover |
These filenames are outputs to prepare during this week's execution; this scaffold does not claim they already exist. Drafts and measured results have different states. Technical code/data stay in the canonical project repository and are referenced from these coordinating files.
During preparation, future measured tables get column definitions, input requirements and run instructions with PENDING status. During execution, replace pending values only with measured outputs. Do not create realistic-looking fake evidence.
600 MINUTES MAXIMUM
Target. Rewrite the Loop Audit one-pager with scope, two-week effort assumptions, three candidates, one prototype and two preprints as proof. Stop when: Finish the fixed-scope Loop Audit one-pager and personalized follow-ups for the three strongest qualified leads.
No material for Monday — this is a pure build day. Need something to study instead? →
Target. Re-read v4 Part 4 and section 9.7; convert one scientific result into a bounded audit deliverable and one buyer question. Produce: One concise applied note, a worked decision/example and unresolved questions.
Do these in this order — the plan's own sequence:
Target. Prepare ten tailored messages for five engaged founders, three established companies and two fund contacts; respect the existing connection ladder. Stop when: Every recipient has a verified role, relevant proof and a clear small ask. Reserve the last 10 minutes for the optional Wednesday note.
No material for Wednesday — this is a pure build day. Need something to study instead? →
Target. Apply the culture filter and proposal economics to real leads; rehearse discovery. Last 30 minutes: a qualified prospect's scientific paper. Apply the Half 2 one-formal-study-block rule.
No material for Thursday — this is a pure build day. Need something to study instead? →
Target. Prepare a discovery agenda, qualification checklist, proposal template and three-call target with booked/held statuses. Stop when: Current opportunities have owner, next action/date and delivery-capacity estimate.
No material for Friday — this is a pure build day. Need something to study instead? →
Target. Resolve the earliest critical spillover or dependency. Prepare any long-form publication draft from existing figures here if needed. Sandbox only after commitments are met.
Optional, only if the day went well:
Target. 20 min build-log draft/publication when authorized; 5 min evidence/checklist; 20 min source-grounded gap review; 15 min next week's six physical actions.
No material for Sunday — this is a pure build day. Need something to study instead? →
Spare pockets, repo exercises and anything the plan lists without a day. Take them in this order when a day finishes early.
The model must turn these into exact physical actions using the observed files and available inputs. Each 90-minute block includes start/stop rituals. All calls, posts, debugging, reading and exercises consume this same capacity.
Half 2: Tuesday is the formal study block unless this is a selling/submission/decision week. Thursday supports applied review, partner work or the market task; do not add another full course.
WHAT TO WATCH, READ AND RUN
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In the plan's running order: each card says which block it belongs to and what has to come before it. The seven-day plan lists the same cards under the day that owns them.
v4 Part 4 and Template F (30 min)
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Tuesday · after v4 Part 4 and Template F
Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test (book, paid, ~130 pages; ch. 1-3 = 45 min)
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Saturday sandbox
David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford, The Trusted Advisor (book, paid) — the trust equation
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Saturday sandbox · after David Maister, Charles Green & Robert Galford, The Trusted Advisor
Alan Weiss, Value-Based Fees (book, paid) — why fixed price beats hourly; matches v4's rule
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Saturday sandbox · after Alan Weiss, Value-Based Fees
Stanford eCorner (ecorner.stanford.edu) — search talks on "customer discovery" and "B2B sales for technical founders"
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Saturday sandbox · after Stanford eCorner (ecorner.stanford.edu) — search talks on "customer discovery"
Bruce Booth's Life Sci VC blog (lifescivc.com) — how biotech investors think about runway and milestones; vocabulary for the "months of runway" pitch
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Y Combinator Startup School, "How to Talk to Users" (Eric Migicovsky, YouTube, ~20 min)
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Record a 60-second demo of each running on public data (v4 Template C) and link both in the one-pager
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A "loop calculator" notebook: inputs (cycle length, cycles/year, burn/month, days saved) → months of runway; screenshot it for the one-pager
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Borrow a summarisation recipe to turn discovery-call notes into a structured scoping sheet (never with confidential data in a cloud model without consent)
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READ FIRST
This week delivers the three concrete artifacts below and the supporting learning/branding/opportunity pack. The scientific or commercial outcome follows the preserved source brief, while the acceptance checks make its evidence testable. The career objective is to turn this work into something a scientist, hiring manager or buyer can inspect.
READ FIRST
Read v6 · Week 27 · Loop Audit offer, built on papers before Monday. It expands this week's one-row v5 brief into daily build steps and adds the Welcome analogy, Learn it (▶ core and + deeper sources), Run it (repos with a 20-40 minute exercise), the NotebookLM kit and the mentor check below. Standing v6 rules: resource rules, NotebookLM protocol, chapter anatomy. v6 adds depth only; it does not change a goal, gate, output or the 600-minute cap, so this specification still governs execution.
Act VI · Threads: $, R · Next gate: 28
Where this week sits. - ← From: v4 Part 4 (offers, pricing hypotheses), Part 9.3 ladder (founders at rungs 4-6), weeks 1-26 (all proof). - → Feeds: week 28 (first invoice), week 29-30 (delivery), week 32 (second audit or pilot proposal), week 39 (fund package), week 40 (decision). - ⟳ Returns in: every commercial conversation for the rest of your career: the one-pager evolves, the logic stays.
Goals. - 🎯 This week: offer one-pager rewritten with preprints as proof; sent to 10 (5 founders who engaged, 3 established companies, 2 funds); 3 calls booked. - 🏁 Next milestone: Gate 28 (first invoice, any amount). - 🌟 Final: a sustainable consulting practice or a fractional role (week 40 decision).
The plan (from v5 Part 7, expanded; gate and output unchanged).
v5 row: 27 | Loop Audit offer, built on papers | v4 Part 4 offers, re-read | Offer one-pager rewritten with the two preprints as proof; sent to 10 (5 founders who engaged, 3 established companies, 2 funds) | 3 calls booked - Goal: three conversations about a paid audit. - Tue (study): re-read v4 Part 4 (offers and "sell weeks, not savings"), v4 Template F (one-pager) and The Mom Test chapters 1-3. - Build: Mon: one-pager v2: problem in the client's words, what the audit delivers, two weeks, fixed price hypothesis, proof (two preprints, instruments, DOIs), what it does not do. Done when a founder friend reads it in 60 seconds and repeats it back. Wed: 10 personalised messages (Part 9.6 template adapted). Done when sent and logged in
OPPORTUNITIES.csv. Fri: discovery-call script (10 questions, Mom-Test style: past behaviour, not opinions) and a scoping sheet. Done when both fit on one page each. - Sun: L-Sun: the offer, stated plainly, with the proof links. - Only one thing: the 10 messages sent.
Mentor check. "I can explain the Loop Audit in 30 seconds without the word AI, and three people want to talk about it."
OPEN WHEN NEEDED
READ FIRST
Material: Re-read v4 Part 4 and section 9.7; convert one scientific result into a bounded audit deliverable and one buyer question.
Produce: One concise applied note, a worked decision/example and unresolved questions.
Understanding check: The note directly supports this week's experiment, collaboration, delivery or career action.
During preparation, write one worked example connected to the week's actual task, one exercise with a separate answer key and five questions. Peter supplies answers; score explanation quality and flag misconceptions in QUESTIONS. Numeric/scientific conclusions require actual data or explicitly synthetic teaching values.
Material: Apply the culture filter and proposal economics to real leads; rehearse discovery. Last 30 minutes: a qualified prospect's scientific paper.
Produce: One concise applied note, a worked decision/example and unresolved questions.
Understanding check: The note directly supports this week's experiment, collaboration, delivery or career action.
Use the prompt pack: P1 explanation ladder, P2 concept-to-project bridge and P3 quiz. Coding practice belongs within the allocated study/build block. Where the source asks for a favorable scientific result, substitute an honest measured comparison as explained below.
Select one verified founder/scientific-lead paper relevant to this week's domain. Use P11; save the question, method, numerical result with context, data workflow, three author questions and one connection sentence in founder-paper.md. Keep abstract-only access limitations explicit. On source weeks with no study, prioritize the commercial/submission task and log any skipped digest.
OPEN WHEN NEEDED
Branding: Draft offer announcement grounded in evidence; update About to include audit clients and continue a distinct recruiter CTA.
Opportunity action: Compare employment and consulting signals using the v4 culture filter; commercial outreach does not replace active applications.
Use career asset contracts. Publish at most the agreed cadence; one figure and one supported number or admitted failure can support multiple drafts. In long-form weeks, prepare a 1,500–2,500-word article from existing evidence within the build/buffer allocation. In release/demo weeks, prepare a 60-second script: problem, input, command/action, result, limitation and proof link.
Verify individuals, jobs and affiliations at execution time. The GridX list and v4 company map are research seeds, not current facts. Do not reveal named company weaknesses or employer/client confidential information. Keep drafted/sent/replied/booked/held statuses separate. The planning request alone does not authorize external messages or publication; honor explicit authorization in the execution session.
OPEN WHEN NEEDED
Prices are inherited hypotheses, not market facts. Flag that a 20-hour audit consumes two entire 10-hour weeks; scope and delivery dates must reflect Paper 3 commitments.
Apply the root scientific evidence contract: provenance; meaningful independent splits; no future-data leakage; baseline comparison; actual denominators/uncertainty; failed cases; human review where required. State whether data are simulated, public experimental, synthetic or partner-provided.
Keep source gates intact, and log scope/time conflicts in review. Missing people, money, access or results must not be replaced with invented evidence. Reduce optional polish first. A specific essential external dependency stays pending while independent preparation continues.
READ FIRST
This is an enabling week. Its deliverables feed the next scheduled gate: 28. Complete the acceptance checklist below; do not promote reputation from a draft.
READ FIRST
Expanded minimum derived from the source goal: Finish the fixed-scope Loop Audit one-pager and personalized follow-ups for the three strongest qualified leads.
Operational first step if stalled: open loop-audit-offer.md, write the required inputs and produce the smallest checkable example in ten minutes. If a more urgent missing gate dependency controls the week, use the source minimum above.
If the full week does not fit, use P14: retain one gate-critical deliverable and one directly supporting study exercise; record what is skipped versus moved. Do not mark the original full gate passed merely because the minimum was completed. After a missed week, reforecast from actual evidence and avoid a second unexamined lost week.
OPEN WHEN NEEDED
In review, state exactly what exists, what was verified, what Peter can now explain, which external events remain pending, where the canonical code/data live, and the next file/function or draft paragraph to touch. Link each fact to evidence. Carry scientific assumptions, split definitions and rights constraints forward explicitly.
OPEN WHEN NEEDED
Prepare Week 27 of this LABLOOP execution plan.
Read execution-plan/specs.md, execution-plan/DECISIONS.md,
execution-plan/GATES.md and
execution-plan/weeks/week-27-loop-audit-offer-and-pipeline/specs.md, commitment.md, evidence.md and review.md.
Read prior prerequisite reviews and inspect actual repository/data state.
Use v5 as the governing sequence, the v6 Week 27 chapter
(LABLOOP-Master-Plan-v6.md) as the deeper walkthrough, and v4 only for
retained details.
Produce the full local preparation pack and the exact week-specific files named
in the artifact table. Give me a bounded lesson with exercises/answer key,
daily physical actions, technical runbook or draft, branding drafts and
career/commercial actions. Keep the total to 600 minutes.
Separate prepared artifacts from measured results and my learning completion.
Verify sources and do not invent metrics, citations, papers, people or outcomes.
Do not execute external communications, publication or spending unless the
current session already authorizes the specific action.
Finish by updating evidence/review and TODAY with the next physical action.
OPEN WHEN NEEDED
v6 expands this row into a full brief, with the gate and output unchanged, inside v6 · Week 27 · Loop Audit offer, built on papers. The following is source planning text, not a claim of completion. Apply the explicit evidence corrections in this specification and DECISIONS.md.
| Week | Goal | Study (Tue) | Build (Mon/Wed/Fri) | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Loop Audit offer, built on papers | v4 Part 4 offers, re-read | Offer one-pager rewritten with the two preprints as proof; sent to 10 (5 founders who engaged, 3 established companies, 2 funds) | 3 calls booked |
WEEK FILES
State: UNCONFIRMED. Owner: Peter Ciancaglini. Specification
Start date: not set. End date: not set. Available hours: confirm (planned ceiling 10). Primary outcome: loop audit offer and pipeline. Minimum that keeps the next gate alive: Finish the fixed-scope Loop Audit one-pager and personalized follow-ups for the three strongest qualified leads.
loop-audit-offer.md: Finish the fixed-scope Loop Audit one-pager and personalized follow-ups for the three strongest qualified leads.audit-outreach-drafts.md: Every recipient has a verified role, relevant proof and a clear small ask.discovery-kit.md: Current opportunities have owner, next action/date and delivery-capacity estimate.| Day | Minutes | Physical action / outcome | Actual slot | Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 90 | Rewrite the Loop Audit one-pager with scope, two-week effort assumptions, three candidates, one prototype and two preprints as proof. | Not set | ☐ |
| Tue | 90 | One concise applied note, a worked decision/example and unresolved questions. | Not set | ☐ |
| Wed | 90 | Prepare ten tailored messages for five engaged founders, three established companies and two fund contacts; respect the existing connection ladder. Last ten minutes: optional note. | Not set | ☐ |
| Thu | 90 | One concise applied note, a worked decision/example and unresolved questions. Include relevant founder-paper work within this block. | Not set | ☐ |
| Fri | 90 | Prepare a discovery agenda, qualification checklist, proposal template and three-call target with booked/held statuses. | Not set | ☐ |
| Sat | 90 | Resolve critical spillover; long-form draft if due; sandbox only if done. | Not set | ☐ |
| Sun | 60 | Build log, evidence, gap review, next actions. | Not set | ☐ |
Peter's commitment / adjustments: pending. Reviewing model and date: pending.
Execution state: NOT_STARTED. Specification This file is a blank register with planned artifact names; none of the rows prove completion.
| Item | Path / URL / version | State | Verification / actual result | Verified by / date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| loop-audit-offer.md | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Pending: Buyer, deliverables, exclusions, acceptance, data needs and fixed-price hypothesis are explicit. | — |
| audit-outreach-drafts.md | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Pending: Every recipient has a verified role, relevant proof and a clear small ask. | — |
| discovery-kit.md | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Pending: Current opportunities have owner, next action/date and delivery-capacity estimate. | — |
| Learning exercise / Peter's quiz | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Peter's actual answers required | — |
| Founder paper digest | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Source/content and access checked | — |
| Branding pack | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Claims audited; drafted/public status distinct | — |
| Opportunity actions | Not created | NOT_STARTED | Drafted/sent/replied/booked/held distinct | — |
| Question / metric | Dataset, N and unit | Split / seed / config | Command or verification method | Output path and measured value | Uncertainty / limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Action / counterpart | Receipt or private reference | State | Next action / date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter's teach-back / quiz score: not assessed. Scientific assumptions and deviations: none recorded yet. Budget allocated / spent: not assessed / no spend recorded. Missing evidence and responsible owner: pending inspection.
Do not put API keys, source full texts with restricted rights, client data or invoice personal details in a public version of this register. Keep private evidence references private.
Review status: NOT_REVIEWED. Specification · Evidence
What Peter can explain or reproduce now: not assessed. Quiz / teach-back gaps: not assessed. Measured result and limitations: pending. Best evidence link for a scientist/recruiter/buyer: pending. What failed or changed, and why: pending.
Gate requirement: No standalone gate; check this week's acceptance criteria and next gate dependencies. Gate status: NOT_STARTED. Original target week: See next gate in specs. Actual completion date / forecast: not set. Missing external evidence: pending inspection. Blocks completed / 7: not recorded. Days with commits / 7: not recorded. Sunday build log / optional Wednesday note: not recorded. Founder conversations cumulative: not recorded. Earned evidence level and proof: not assessed. Consecutive lost weeks: not assessed.
Week-specific risk to revisit: Prices are inherited hypotheses, not market facts. Flag that a 20-hour audit consumes two entire 10-hour weeks; scope and delivery dates must reflect Paper 3 commitments.
Continue / recover / blocked: not decided. Retain as the minimum: Finish the fixed-scope Loop Audit one-pager and personalized follow-ups for the three strongest qualified leads. Skipped permanently with reason: none recorded. Carryover with owner, dependency and target week: none recorded. Canonical repository paths and versions: pending. Data permissions, split definitions or assumptions to preserve: pending. External action authorization that still applies: not assessed. Next physical action, exact file/function/paragraph: pending. Updates to root PROGRESS / LOG / TODAY completed: ☐
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