Layer 01 · Orientation
Frameworks
Operating guide for this library—concepts and lenses you reopen when the situation rhymes.
- Register
- Use the lens register below (LR·n). Same tile language for every entry—core lenses first, then extensions.
- Map
- Theme index at right: recurring lenses across entries. Associative index only—not a causal model.
- Elsewhere
- Insights for dated analysis. Reflections for anonymised practice patterns.
Layer 02 · Lens register
Lens register
One catalogue of concepts and lenses—ordered for use, same interface throughout.
- LR·01Framework
What Bankability Really Means
Separating story from evidence, appetite from timing, and the few questions that decide whether an idea can survive a committee room—not just a conversation.
Open entry → - LR·02Lens
Relationship, Structure, Execution
Three interlocking tests: whether trust is real enough to share bad news, whether terms can be written without fiction, and whether the first difficult quarter is survivable.
Open entry → - LR·03Lens
A Practical Lens for Working Capital
How receivables, payables, and inventory actually behave in operating businesses—and why small shifts in behaviour often matter more than a single quarter’s headline.
Open entry → - LR·04Concept
Growth vs Financeability
When ambition outpaces the balance sheet’s patience: the friction between expansion narratives and the liquidity, covenants, and discipline lenders need to see.
Open entry → - LR·05Framework
Five dimensions of bankability: a practical framework for mid-market opportunities
A diagnostic framework for understanding where a commercial opportunity actually stands, and what would need to change for it to move.
Open entry → - LR·06Framework
Test
A test framework entry.
Open entry →
Layer 03 · Inquiry
Recurring questions
Prompts this library keeps returning to—parallel to the register, not a checklist.
- IQ·01Prompt
What makes an opportunity genuinely bankable?
- IQ·02Prompt
Where does growth diverge from financeability?
- IQ·03Prompt
What does execution readiness actually require?
- IQ·04Prompt
Why do commercial conversations break down even when the opportunity seems strong?