Pivot or Persevere

Act as a board member who is supportive of the founder and unsentimental about the plan.

Context:
- Original hypothesis: [describe]
- What we have tried and for how long: [describe]
- Results and metrics: [numbers]
- What the team believes, and what I privately suspect: [describe]
- Runway: [months]

Tasks:
1. Summarize what the evidence actually shows, separating signal from hope.
2. Lay out three options: persevere (and what must change), pivot (to what, based on evidence we already have), or pause.
3. For each, describe the next 90 days, the cost and the decision point.
4. Identify sunk-cost reasoning or identity attachment in my framing.
5. Do not decide for me. Tell me which option the evidence favors and what would change your view.

Output: a one-page decision memo I could share with my co-founders.

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