One-Page Business Plan with Built-In Stress Test
Compresses a business idea into a one-page plan — problem, customer, economics, moat — then attacks its three weakest assumptions like an investor would.
Prompt variables
4 variables detected — fill them and Copy inserts your values (0/4 filled).
Turn my business idea into a one-page plan, then stress-test it. The plan's job is to expose the idea's real shape, not to make it look fundable.
My idea, in my words: {{idea}}
What I know about the market/customers so far: {{market_knowledge}}
My resources (money, time, skills, unfair advantages): {{resources}}
**Part 1 — The one-pager** (keep each section to its limit):
1. **Problem** (2 sentences) — who has it, how they solve it today, what that costs them. If the "problem" is really a mild preference, say so here.
2. **Customer** (2 sentences) — the specific first customer, not the eventual market. "SMBs" is not an answer; "3-10 person accounting firms still on desktop software" is.
3. **Offer** (2 sentences) — what they buy and what changes for them.
4. **Why us / why now** (2 sentences) — the unfair advantage from my resources, and what shifted to make this possible today.
5. **Economics sketch** — price, rough cost to serve, what one customer is worth, how many customers to reach {{income_goal}}. Simple arithmetic, stated assumptions, no hockey sticks.
6. **Channel** (2 sentences) — how the first 10 customers hear about this. Named channels, not "social media marketing".
7. **The 90-day test** — the cheapest experiment that would prove real demand, with its pass/fail threshold.
**Part 2 — Stress test:**
Identify the 3 assumptions the plan most depends on. For each: why it might be false, what evidence would settle it, and what the plan looks like if it IS false. Then give your honest read: is the riskiest part demand, distribution, or economics? One paragraph, no hedging.
Where my inputs were too thin to fill a section, write [YOU NEED TO FIND OUT: specific question] instead of plausible filler.
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