Every signal entering Kallor is scored against all six lenses. No lens is optional. No signal bypasses the sequence. Kill threshold below 6/10 average. Max 3 concurrent active ideas.
Identifies where real structural pain exists in a market. Not inconvenience — genuine operational friction that costs time, money, or quality at scale. The more unavoidable and persistent the friction, the higher the score.
Maps the incentive landscape. If a powerful incumbent benefits from the current dysfunction, the problem persists by design — which also means a challenger who solves it owns the opportunity. Score high when the incumbent has structural interest in keeping things broken.
Traces the downstream consequences of the problem and the solution. First-order thinking produces obvious answers. Second-order thinking surfaces asymmetric opportunities — where solving one problem creates leverage across a wider system.
Identifies what can be collapsed, systematised, or removed entirely. The best opportunities take 12-step processes and compress them into 2. Score high when the compression is technically feasible and the market hasn’t done it yet.
Challenges every assumption in the category. Asks what happens if the prevailing logic is inverted. Most industries are built on assumptions that were once correct. Reversal finds where those assumptions have expired and a different model is now viable.
Surfaces what everyone knows but no one says in the market. The gap between public positioning and private reality. Score high when there is a significant, widely-known truth that the industry avoids acknowledging — because solving that truth is the product.
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