Hold review
Hold review decides each quarter whether a Live Startup keeps its investment, holds, graduates, sells, or goes dormant.
Outcome
| Part | This Process |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Each Live Startup ends the quarter with one recorded move: keep investing, hold, graduate, sell or go dormant. |
| Reads | Startup, Metric |
Accountable
Responsible: Strategist, Finance Lead.
Consulted: Product Lead, Engineering Lead, Marketing Lead, Sales Lead, Customer Lead, Operations Lead, Legal Lead, People Lead, Quality Lead.
Workflows
No Workflow automates this Process: the Roles above run it.
Who does each step
None.
Events
None.
Plays
No Play names this Process.
Controls
No Control names this Process or a Workflow of it.
Settings
None.
Failure
A failed step retries; when retries run out, the Action goes to the Founder.
Loop
| Step | Value |
|---|---|
| Hypothesis | Holding a default-alive Startup keeps it alive without new investment. |
| Measure | Default alive over 1q, at least 1 observations |
| Learn | The learn step reads the Readout, records Evidence and a Decision, and drafts the next Variant. |
Code
Turn on hold reviewEnable
Off until someone calls Process.enable. Process.pause stops new Actions; Actions in progress finish.
Example
A Startup has been default alive for two quarters with flat growth. Hold review keeps it Live with no new investment, and the Founder records the Decision with its next review date.