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What actually predicts execution (and what doesn’t)

Since ValidatorAI.com sees founders before they build anything, we can compare ideas that look ready with ones that actually move forward.

Here’s one pattern that keeps showing up…

False readiness vs true readiness

We score ideas on clarity, focus, and alignment.
👉 Intuitively, you’d expect higher scores to mean higher execution.

But execution doesn’t scale cleanly with scores.

Here’s what our data is showing right now:

FALSE READINESS VS TRUE READINESS
Execution after validation

High idea score (80+)
Executed: ████████  ~21%
Stalled:  ████████████████████  ~79%

Medium idea score (60–79)
Executed: ████████████  ~28%
Stalled:  ███████████████  ~72%

Low idea score (under 60)
Executed: ████  ~15%
Stalled:  ███████████████████  ~85%

Based on live analysis of validation behavior and next-step actions.

What’s surprising about this

The highest-scoring ideas are not the ones that move forward the most.

A large share of ideas that look great on paper still stall.

From the behavior we’re seeing, high-scoring founders often:

• keep refining instead of acting

• wait for certainty

• try to make the idea “complete” before taking a step

❗ Meanwhile, many medium-score founders move forward simply because they’re willing to act with imperfection.

The data: What actually correlates with moving forward

When we track what founders actually change, a few things stand out:

• Iteration after feedback:
  Founders who re-ran validation moved forward 30–33% of the time
  Founders who only read advice moved forward 23–29%

• Scope reduction:
  The single most common change before execution
  (1,300+ instances tied to forward motion)

• Feature removal / simplification:
  1,000 cases associated with execution
  Far more predictive than wording changes

• Speed matters:
  20–27% of founders who execute do so within the first 10 minutes
  Execution probability drops sharply after that window

What this means for you

If your idea already feels “pretty solid” but you’re stuck, the answer probably isn’t rewriting your idea until it’s perfect.

It’s usually:

• reducing scope

• choosing a narrow customer

• committing to a small next step

Confidence often follows action. It doesn’t really come in the planning stage.

It’s less about having everything totally figured out and more about your willingness to jump into the unknown. 

Which is scary, I know. But you can do this. 👍

Contribute to our data set

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Aron Meystedt

Chief Data Nerd at ValidatorAI.com

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