Week 2, Apply · Day 14 of 30
Day 14: Week 2 wrap, your first scorecard
Three composites, one calibration, one personal heuristic. That's a real artifact.
Day 14 in one paragraph: By Day 14, you have something nobody else in your network has: a rolling 4-org composite scorecard with calibration. It is small but it is yours. Most professional sourcing systems were built from a smaller starting position. You will spend about five minutes, end with a concrete artifact, and the whole curriculum stays free at this URL permanently.
Where this day sits in the 30
Week 2 combines the atomic signals into a composite score and runs it against real candidate orgs. Day 14 of 30 sits 47% of the way through, in week 2, apply, one of four one-week phases. This day also carries a bonus exercise for anyone with extra time. Everything in this challenge is built from public GitHub signals, the same data that powers the weekly deal-flow feed, and the day's lesson is worth roughly €49 in equivalent consulting time by the anchoring we use across the curriculum.
Yesterday
Yesterday's calibration closed the loop on Week 2. Today you ship the artifact.
Why this signal matters
By Day 14, you have something nobody else in your network has: a rolling 4-org composite scorecard with calibration. It is small but it is yours. Most professional sourcing systems were built from a smaller starting position.
The 5-minute exercise
- 1Compile a single page: 4 orgs (3 candidates + 1 calibration), composite for each, delta vs gut, the signal that mattered most.
- 2Save it somewhere persistent, Notion, doc, repo. You'll add to it weekly.
- 3Send it to one trusted co-investor or analyst. Ask: 'What did I miss?'
- 4Schedule the Week 3 first session: 25 minutes on Monday.
What you’re filtering for
A scorecard you'd be willing to show to your most rigorous co-investor. If you wouldn't, refine the notes, the goal is artifact-quality, not perfect.
Edge case
If two of your three candidates scored identically (e.g. both 4/6), differentiate by the qualitative notes. The number compresses; the prose decompresses.
Bonus
The scorecard becomes the seed of your watchlist (Day 15). Same data, different framing, same orgs, but now with a 'next-touch date' added.
Tomorrow
Week 3 starts tomorrow, building the watchlist that turns these one-off scores into a continuous practice.
Checkpoint, Week 2 closes today
You’re 47% through. The full curriculum is permanent at every /challenge/<slug> URL - bookmark this page if you want to revisit the procedure later.
Common questions about day 14
- How long does day 14 take?
- About five minutes of hands-on work against the org you picked on day one. The reading adds another two or three. If you are short on time the exercise alone still delivers the day's point.
- Do I need any tools or paid data for week 2 wrap, your first scorecard?
- No. Every exercise in the challenge runs on public GitHub data and a browser. The feed that automates the same checks is available, but the curriculum itself is deliberately tool-free so the habit lands before the tooling.
- What if I miss a day?
- Every day is permanent at its own URL, so you can pick up exactly where you stopped. The sequence matters, each day builds on the previous one's artifact, but the pace is yours. Many people run the 30 days across six or seven weeks instead of four.
Curriculum: /challenge · Methodology: /methodology · Paper: ssrn.com/abstract=6606558