capx-ai/casa/casa-validate

casa-validate

The wedge. Prove there is real demand before anyone builds anything. This is the validation gate every new idea passes through, and its verdict personalizes everything after it.

If company-brain/profile.json does not exist, tell the founder to run /casa-start first and stop. (casa-start invokes this gate itself for an idea-stage company.)

What it runs (the validation playbooks)

In dependency order (see each playbook's frontmatter under playbooks/level-0/):

1. opportunity-scan (001): mine communities, reviews, search, trends for evidence

of demand. Parallel-safe with 003, 004.

1. problem-validation-interviews (002): Mom-Test discovery; problem evidence memo.
2. competitive-teardown (003): map competitors, pricing, gaps.
3. market-sizing-tam-sam-som (004): top-down and bottom-up; kill if the reachable

market is below threshold.

1. jobs-to-be-done-extraction (005): functional, emotional, social jobs.
2. red-team-thesis (006): steelman why this fails; set explicit kill criteria.
3. why-now-memo (007): the timing thesis.
4. mvp-scoping (018): the thin slice to build, with explicit non-goals.

On a GO verdict, beachhead-selection (008, the first play of the next level) picks the narrowest wedge with the most compounding.

Output

• A validation kit written to company-brain/ (evidence, sizing, beachhead, MVP

scope).

• A GO or KILL verdict against the red-team kill criteria.
• On GO, a confirmed business profile (type, traits, ICP, monetization) for the

router.

Rules

• Evidence required. An opportunity is not valid until at least three independent

signals from at least two channels support it. State confidence on every claim.

• No fabrication. If a required input (an API, a real interview) is missing, say

so and ask the founder rather than inventing data.

• The landing-page demand test and live waitlist are part of this wedge but

involve a real deploy and possibly paid actions; route those through explicit founder approval. For now, produce the kit and the verdict.

• No em-dashes, no emojis.