Proof Of Concept Checklist That Retires Technical Risk In 1 Week

One link, one proof of concept checklist — scope, success criteria, build, test, demo, kill-or-proceed call. Honest answer in 7 days, not 7 months.

A proof of concept (POC) is the 1-week scrappy build that proves the technology can work — separate from the MVP, which proves customers will pay. First-time founders confuse the two and end up shipping a POC as if it were an MVP, or sinking 3 months into a POC that should have taken 1 week. This proof of concept checklist combo wapin enforces the discipline: the proof of concept checklist scopes the POC to 1 week, defines pass / fail criteria up front, and forces a kill-or-proceed call at the end. The countdown block puts a date on the demo so the POC doesn't sprawl. The checklist has the lean POC sequence pre-filled — define the riskiest technical assumption, write the 1-page spec, build only what tests the assumption, demo to the founding team, vote kill or proceed. As a proof of concept checklist it works because the founding team sees the same scope, the same deadline, and the same demo on the same WhatsApp link. Run the proof of concept checklist once and the next POC will be cheaper and faster, because the proof of concept checklist holds the team to a 1-week ceiling.