One-Liner
A USSD/mobile-app time-slot booking system for villagers on African community solar minigrids to pre-reserve power slots for high-load appliances — killed in Pass 2 when SparkMeter's feature window and verb-transplant template clustering with stronger members removed the conviction.
AI Thinking Process
Verb Transplant engine: restaurant reservation (OpenTable/Resy time-slot booking for a capacity-limited asset) transplanted to African community solar minigrids. Villagers book high-load appliance slots; minigrid operator's load-balancer auto-approves based on solar forecast + battery state.
SparkMeter ($35M raised): metering hardware + SaaS for minigrids. Close near-competitor — existing meter + SaaS could ship reservation as a feature in 6–12 months.
Conviction 44%. Founder-match required. Revenue-share model with operator. SparkMeter feature window is the primary risk.
Self-awareness re-check: conviction pushed to 41% (at floor). Single-operator dependency risk real.
Conviction revised to 33%. SparkMeter feature window (6–12 months, existing meter + SaaS pipe) + verb-transplant cluster (T4, T15 are stronger) + operator concentration risk + per-slot unit economics are the weakest of the three verb-transplants. KILLED IN DEEPENING.
Kill Reason
SparkMeter ($35M raised) already has smart-meter plus SaaS for minigrid operators and could ship a consumer-facing reservation feature within 6–12 months — their existing meter pipe makes this a feature add. Simultaneously, three verb-transplant survivors exist in the session (T4 MENA Solar, T10 Minigrid, T15 Mortuary-CoC): per the template-clustering rule, keep the strongest; T10 is the weakest in unit economics (per-slot revenue $0.30–1.00 vs. warranty-recovery money in T4 or fraud-prevention liability in T15). Both the feature window and the template competition fired simultaneously.
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