OPU · Secondary Evaluation Lenses

Twelve lenses.Not twelve certifications.

The 12-skill package is retained as a structured self-assessment and review library. It can expose gaps across company-building surfaces, but it is not an external certification and cannot replace the two load-bearing OPU tests.

12 review lensesPhase-awareSecondary layer
How to read

Use the skills to widen the review—not to manufacture proof.

The primary OPU questions remain solo provenance and asset substance. These lenses help a reviewer inspect whether the broader company-building surfaces have been considered and where Phase 3 professionalization must enter.

01

Idea Validation

Does the case identify meaningful problems and produce testable architecture or product responses?

Tests: Does not prove commercial traction or novelty.
02

Business Model

Can selected assets connect to a plausible economic model or strategic buyer/partner need?

Tests: Does not prove revenue or valuation.
03

Resource Acquisition

How were scarce resources, tools and information assembled under the stated constraints?

Tests: Constraint is context, not value proof.
04

Go-to-Market

What routes exist from asset formation to pilots, partners, users or commercialization?

Tests: Phase 3 planning is not current traction.
05

Product

Which assets are products, modules, implementations, research systems or future convergence concepts?

Tests: Do not flatten mixed maturity.
06

Sales

What evidence exists of prior selling/market interaction and what remains to be rebuilt for Phase 3?

Tests: Phase 1 sales context is not Phase 2 solo proof.
07

Marketing & Brand

Can complex work be made legible without using recognition as proof?

Tests: Narrative quality is not technical validation.
08

Growth & Analytics

What measured operating signals exist and how are definitions, time windows and sources controlled?

Tests: Unreconciled metrics should not be promoted.
09

Operations

Can one founder externalize enough structure to coordinate work, documentation, review and future handoff?

Tests: Operational breadth is not credential equivalence.
10

Hiring & Team Building

Does the architecture make clear when solo formation ends and where Phase 3 specialists/teams enter?

Tests: Future team formation does not retroactively erase Phase 2 provenance.
11

Fundraising & Deal Architecture

Can the portfolio be routed into investable/partnerable units without forcing a single valuation narrative?

Tests: Investor interest is not proof of value.
12

Legal, Governance & Risk

Are patentability, privacy, security, disclosure, inventorship and compliance routed to qualified Phase 3 review?

Tests: Readiness is not legal completion or certification.
Primary hierarchy

Secondary lenses sit below the core proof chain.

1 · Claim boundaryWhat is eligible?
2 · ProvenanceWas it one-human formed?
3 · SubstanceIs the work strategically meaningful?
4 · 12 lensesWhat wider company-building gaps remain?