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The team should always keep the first solution until the final pitch.

A team refuses to pivot because it has already spent many hours building the prototype, even though customer evidence contradicts the problem assumption. What is the strongest criticism?

The team is protecting sunk effort instead of responding to evidence.

Customer evidence is less important than technical effort.

More development time automatically makes the original assumption correct.

Ignore the result and return to the original idea.

A team's experiment used an inappropriate sample and produced mixed results that cannot support a clear decision. What should the team do?

Classify the evidence as inconclusive and run a better targeted test before forcing a gate decision.

Ask AI to choose the more optimistic interpretation.

Declare a go decision because the test has been completed.

Whenever the technical prototype functions correctly.

When is a 'go/continue' decision most defensible?

When the team likes the idea and has already invested significant time.

When every possible assumption has been proven.

When evidence is sufficiently encouraging to justify the next stronger test, even though uncertainty remains.

The customer segment is narrow.

Which situation should create the greatest concern under the Ethical Risk dimension?

A system handling sensitive financial messages may give users false confidence that fraudulent content is safe.

The team has only three presentation slides.

A prototype uses simple colours.

Several relevant customers independently describe recent incidents and similar workarounds.

Which finding would provide the strongest early-stage evidence for a customer problem?

Five team members agree that the problem is serious.

AI generates a convincing explanation of why the market is large.

A competitor has an attractive website.

Everyone who uses technology.

Which customer description demonstrates the strongest Customer Clarity?

Businesses in Bahrain.

People interested in cybersecurity.

Busy micro-retail owners using digital payments and messaging who have recently received suspicious transaction-related messages.

A technical test that only assesses whether software can be built.

What is a venture gate?

A decision point where evidence is reviewed to justify continuing, changing or stopping a venture direction.

A financial forecast used after the final pitch.

A punishment used when a team has made mistakes.

Treat AI's go/pivot/stop recommendation as final.

Which use of AI is appropriate during Venture Gate 1?

Upload sensitive raw customer data without minimisation so AI can make a stronger judgement.

Use AI to challenge the venture across the gate dimensions, then verify the analysis against real evidence and make the human decision.

Ask AI to generate missing customer evidence.

A team believes customers will switch because its interface is easier, but it has not tested switching behaviour. How should this claim be classified?

Contradicted evidence

Assumption

Technical feasibility

Supported knowledge