# My AI Startup Stack workbook
VERSION HISTORY: 2026-10-14 EDT | chatgpt_codex | startup-completion

Idea / customer / industry / technical ability / currency and monthly budget / stage / funding / location / team / needs:

1. Customer advantage: Current task, baseline time, desired result, five interviews, success threshold.
2. Ecosystem: Separate model, cloud, software, education, community and investment resources.
3. Cost: baseline = model + storage + hosting + seats + support + taxes. Credits cover only confirmed eligible charges before expiry. Never subtract advertised maxima.
4. Software: Two candidates, seat/API distinction, account-history exclusions and unresolved questions.
5. Help: Source-backed support route, one architecture question and response evidence.
6. Learning: Resource, prerequisite, task to demonstrate, expected artifact and feedback.
7. Launch: Consent-based five-interview plan, pilot owner, stop condition and conversion measure.
8. Scale: Tenfold workload, latency target, failure fallback, billing owner and export test.
9. Compare: Score known criteria 0-5; weights 30/25/20/15/10; preserve UNKNOWN and report coverage. Never compare partial and complete totals as final rankings.
10. Apply: Gather accurate public company facts and verified referral; submit yourself through official page.
11. Stack offers: For each offer record account, service, expiry, allowed combination and written confirmation.
12. Stack architecture: Complete all 12 roles in stack-worksheet.csv, including explicit gaps/fallbacks.
13. Capstone: Export profile, sourced resources, lesson deliverables, scored options, next actions and unresolved questions. Present a small customer workflow before selecting infrastructure.

Capstone rubric /100: customer and measurable pilot 20; sourced resource map 20; no-credit cost and expiry plan 20; restrictions/application evidence 15; 12-role stack plus fallback/export 15; next actions and explicit unknowns 10. Completion is a learning record, never provider acceptance or independent business viability certification.