Will AI Eat This Business?

The Verdict & Re-Score Tracker

Companion to "Building at four, five, six."

Date every score. Write the number, the date, and the three facts that drove it. When a trigger fires later, you will want to know what changed, them or you.

Score record

Idea	Score	Date	Three facts that drove it	Next re-check

Re-score triggers (re-run the full scorecard immediately when any fires)

☐ A platform you depend on changes its content, disclosure, or monetization rules
☐ A new model starts doing your core deliverable acceptably, not impressively, acceptably
☐ Prices in your niche start sagging and the cheap providers are winning bids
☐ A regulator or licensing body changes the rules that anchor your accountability layer
☐ Your own customer mix shifts toward buyers who cannot tell your work from the cheap version

Schedule

Standing calendar re-run (every six to twelve months)	Next date:
Platform-goodwill businesses: policy-watch recheck date
Trigger that fired most recently, and what changed

A re-score that comes back higher is not a failure. It is information arriving in time to matter: raise the accountability content of the offer, move more demand behind your own gate, or start the next business while this one still pays. The failure mode is drifting from a five to a seven without ever re-running the numbers, because you liked the answer the first time.

Acting on a changed number

New band	Move
Still 0–3 or 4–6	Keep building; log the re-check date
Rose inside 4–6	Raise the accountability content of the offer; move more demand behind your own gate
Crossed to 7+	Start the next business while this one still pays; pick from the 34 pre-scored alternatives