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Minimum Success Criteria

Minimum Success Criteria is the one number a Startup must reach by a date to stay worth running: a Goal the Founder sets once.

At that date, the Startup perseveres or pivots on it.

Properties

PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
metricMetricrequiredThe Metric the number is measured in.
valuenumberrequiredThe number to reach.
bydaterequiredThe date it must be reached.
fermijsonThe Price, rates and volumes that show the number is reachable.
Inherited from Goal: 2 properties
PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
objectivetextrequiredThe qualitative outcome.
horizonstringOne of day, week, quarter, year, or three-years.

Object

JSON
{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/kilnbakery.com/minimum-success-criteria/minimum_success_criteria_1",
  "$type": "MinimumSuccessCriteria",
  "objective": "Example objective",
  "horizon": "day",
  "metric": "metric_1",
  "value": 1,
  "by": "2026-10-22",
  "fermi": {}
}

Relationships

  • The Minimum Success Criteria is set for one Startup: the one number that decides whether the Startup keeps running. setFor, inverse mustReach.

Verbs

  1. createCreates a Minimum Success Criteria.
    POST /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteriadoMinimumSuccessCriteria.created
  2. getReturns one Minimum Success Criteria by id.
    GET /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteria/{id}readNo Event
  3. listReturns Minimum Success Criteria, newest first, one page at a time.
    GET /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteriareadNo Event
  4. updateChanges the given properties of a Minimum Success Criteria.
    PATCH /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteria/{id}doMinimumSuccessCriteria.updated
  5. deleteDeletes a Minimum Success Criteria; its history is kept.
    DELETE /{namespace}/minimum-success-criteria/{id}doMinimumSuccessCriteria.deleted

Permissions

Which Access level may call each Verb. One-way Verbs wait their delay window.

Operationowneradminmemberviewer
MinimumSuccessCriteria.createYesYesYesNo
MinimumSuccessCriteria.getYesYesYesYes
MinimumSuccessCriteria.listYesYesYesYes
MinimumSuccessCriteria.updateYesYesYesNo
MinimumSuccessCriteria.deleteYesYesYesNo

Call it

Text
Add a minimum success criteria to QuietCopy with a metric.

Example

A bookkeeping Startup sets value: 8000 in monthly revenue from outside Customers, by its sixth month. Its fermi shows the path: 20 Customers at a $400 Price.