Discovery Lens
F Pain Point Scan
Specific, urgent, and still unsolved — the kind of pain that converts
One-Liner
Automated GAAP-compliant Work-in-Progress schedule generation for construction-specialty accounting firms, replacing 8–12 hours per client per month of manual Excel work.
AI Thinking Process
Verbatim pain: construction accounting firms spend 8–12 hr/client/mo on GAAP-compliant WIP schedules in QuickBooks Online. Build automation.
structural adoption barrier (double weight in painpoint flavor): accounting firm bills hourly. The pain is the firm's product. Automation costs the firm revenue. Classic Pastor.
Kill appears positional — change customer. Pivot: sell direct to the contractor. Contractor pays $200/mo rather than $2K/mo in accountant hours. Contractor is the buyer.
Pivot kill: contractor doesn't have GAAP-compliance pressure directly — their accountant does. Contractor trusts the accountant's process. Won't switch tools without accountant blessing. Accountant blocks. Same Pastor barrier, one layer removed.
KILLED. Pivot fails. structural adoption barrier transmits across the principal-agent chain — the structural mismatch propagates even when the direct buyer changes.
Kill Reason
The accounting firm bills hourly for WIP schedule preparation — the manual hours ARE the firm's product. Pivot to direct-to-contractor failed: the contractor trusts the accountant's process and won't switch tools without accountant approval, which the accountant withholds. The structural adoption barrier transmits across the principal-agent chain.
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