Strategic Readiness Platform

Stop building before you're ready to compete.

Most products fail not from bad execution, but from premature commitment. Product Vision Compass helps product leaders assess strategic readiness using battle-tested frameworks — before a single line of code is written.

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How It Works

Six questions. Three dimensions. One verdict.

Based on Henderson's 6 requirements, the diagnostic tests your strategic readiness across three dimensions — Insight, Direction, and Capacity — to determine whether you've earned the right to compete.

Insight

Do you understand the problem, the system, and the time-lags well enough to outmanoeuvre a rival?

Direction

Have you made the focused refusal that creates a real competitive position, or are you still trying to be everything?

Capacity

Do you have the resource slack and organisational will to stay the course when the plan meets reality?

Built On

Frameworks that cut through the noise

Henderson's 6 Requirements

The foundation of the diagnostic. Six criteria any competitive strategy must satisfy before committing resources.

MIST — Minimum Independent Sustainable Threshold

Every iteration must be independently sustainable using only capabilities you actually possess, for customers who actually exist, at economics that actually work today. Not 'when we scale.' Not 'once we add X.' Now.

Position-Posture-Moat

Where you sit, how you defend it, and what makes it structurally hard to take. All three must reinforce each other.

De Facto Strategy

What you actually fund and staff — not what the deck says. The gap between stated and de facto strategy reveals organizational truth.

Pro Features

Go deeper with Pro

The free diagnostic gives you the signal. Pro gives you the playbook.

Track Over Time

Save every diagnostic and watch your strategic readiness evolve. Spot patterns across initiatives.

Deep Guidance

After each answer, get expanded analysis grounded in MIST, Position-Posture-Moat, and De Facto Strategy.

PDF Reports

Export branded strategic readiness reports to share with leadership and stakeholders.

Know the why before you build the what.

Take the free Strategic Readiness Check. It takes 3 minutes and could save you months.