/em:stress-test — Business Assumption Stress Testing

Command: /em:stress-test <assumption>

Take any business assumption and break it before the market does. Revenue projections. Market size. Competitive moat. Hiring velocity. Customer retention.

Why Most Assumptions Are Wrong

Founders are optimists by nature. That's a feature — you need optimism to start something from nothing. But it becomes a liability when assumptions in business models get inflated by the same optimism that got you started.

The most dangerous assumptions are the ones everyone agrees on.

When the whole team believes the $50M market is real, when every investor call goes well so you assume the round will close, when your model shows $2M ARR by December and nobody questions it — that's when you're most exposed.

Stress testing isn't pessimism. It's calibration.