Day 31 · System complete
Thirty days. Seven atomic signals. Three real-pipeline candidates scored. A 10-org watchlist. A Monday rhythm. Alerts. A custom-weighted composite calibrated to your beat. An MCP integration that runs the whole thing from your editor. The next section is optional, three ways to scale the system if the manual cadence doesn’t fit anymore. Pick none of them and the system still works.
Commit velocity
The simplest acceleration signal, 14-day vs 90-day ratio.
Contributor diversity
The bus-factor signal, Gini coefficient at month -3.
Dependents graph
The hidden GitHub page, cheapest external-adoption proxy.
README freshness
The cheapest leading indicator, a README rewrite is a pre-pitch.
New repo creation rate
The platform-buildout tell, SDKs, CLIs, demos shipping fast.
Issue-to-PR ratio
Engagement vs shipping, 1.5+ healthy, 0.7- firefighting.
The composite + the fast version
Six signals → one score → 350+ orgs in 4 seconds.
Pick three real candidates
Three orgs from your own pipeline, one boring, one obvious, one wildcard.
Score candidate #1 end-to-end
The boring one, six signals, 15 minutes, one composite.
Score candidate #2, the obvious one
The startup you already liked, does the framework agree?
Score candidate #3, the wildcard
The unread one, where the framework earns its keep.
Compare all three, which signal carried the read?
Three composites side by side, and the signal you almost skipped.
Calibration, score a known recently-funded org
Pick a Series A from last quarter. What did the composite say at month -3?
Week 2 wrap, your first scorecard
Three composites, one calibration, one personal heuristic. That's a real artifact.
Build a 10-org watchlist
Ten orgs, one sector, scored once, queued for weekly recheck.
Set the weekly Monday rhythm
25 minutes every Monday, before email, the cadence that compounds.
Sector batch, 25 orgs in 25 minutes
When a sector heats up, sweep it broad before going deep.
Score-driven founder questions
Five questions, each seeded by a signal, sharper than 'tell me about traction.'
Score one portfolio company retroactively
Pick the worst-performing investment. What did the composite say at term sheet?
30-second pre-read for first meetings
One glance at the composite before you walk in, and you're already ahead.
Week 3 wrap, your operational system
Watchlist + Monday rhythm + sector-batch + question library + pre-read.
Set alerts on score moves
When does a score change matter? When commit velocity flips by ≥0.4.
The anti-signal, when 6/6 is wrong
Some orgs game every signal. Building your false-positive list is week 4 work.
Co-investor share template
Score → paragraph → ask. Three lines, one Slack message, one new co-investor convert.
MCP integration, running the framework from your editor
Six tools, one MCP server, zero context-switching out of your IDE.
Custom composite weights
Default is 1×6. Your beat probably needs 2× on one signal and 0.5× on another.
30-day retrospective, what the framework caught
Four weeks. Three candidates. One calibration. Ten watchlist orgs. What's measurable?
The Sunday digest as continuous practice
After Day 30, the rhythm continues, five orgs every Sunday, one composite per week.
Pre-graduation, which rung makes sense?
Free, €49/mo, or €1,997, match the rung to the actual usage pattern from the last 30 days.
Graduation, the Stack Slide and one quiet decision
Thirty days. Six signals. One scorecard. One operational system. One decision.
Stacked from least to most committed. Compare the standalone retail value of each rung against its price, the founding rate on the Dashboard is locked for life and never re-priced retroactively.
Rung 0
Free, forever
Five named startups every Sunday, applied, not theoretical.
Rung 1 · Most pick this
€49/mo
The 7-signal composite, computed continuously across 350+ startup orgs.
Standalone retail value of the components: €1,431.
Upgrade to Dashboard →Rung 2
€1,997 one-time
Pick one sector. We deliver the 40-page written deep-dive in 5 business days.
Standalone retail value of the components: €4,970.
Book a Sector Sweep →Then nothing changes. The seven emails are yours. The seven /challenge/[slug] permalinks stay live and indexed. The methodology is published CC BY 4.0 at ssrn.com/abstract=6606558 so you can re-derive every metric from public GitHub data indefinitely.
We charge for scale (the live engine across 350+ orgs and the custom Sector Sweep), not for the framework. If the manual version fits you, the manual version is genuinely the right answer.
If the Challenge worked for you, send the landing-page link to one other investor or analyst who’d use it.
That’s the entire ask. We don’t run an affiliate program, we don’t want incentives to distort whether someone tells a friend.
https://signals.gitdealflow.com/challengeChallenge curriculum: /challenge · Methodology: /methodology · Paper: ssrn.com/abstract=6606558
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