Best Kind Consulting · Founder / Pricing Coach
Informs the thesis. Not an active pursuit.
Does the firm match ICP v1.3? Boutique consulting, 3–50 employees, judgment-heavy delivery, hands-on buyer, actively scaling.
| Dimension | Read | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Firm type | Strategic pricing advisory — judgment-led work. | 2/2 |
| Team size | Solo + an EA. Below the 3-employee floor — disqualifies. | 0/2 |
| Core pain | Volunteered as a future risk ("if I were to get slammed"), not a current bottleneck. | 1/2 |
| Buyer | Hands-on founder doing all delivery herself. | 2/2 |
| Growth posture | Scaling upstream to Series A is forward-looking; pilot deferred to September. | 1/2 |
Is the pain live, costed, and ready to act on? Past attempts and trigger events tell us whether they’ll move.
| Dimension | Read | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Pain currency | Hypothetical — "if I were to get slammed." No live bottleneck. | 0/2 |
| Cost quantified | Nothing attached. | 0/2 |
| Failed attempts | Not explored. | 0/2 |
| Trigger event | Not surfaced. | 0/2 |
| Action commitment | Deferred to September. Lukewarm. | 1/2 |
“If I were to get slammed with a bunch of clients, the first thing that breaks is client delivery.”
“Let's pick this back up in September.”