Screen 3 / 6Conviction Timeline

Conviction compounds. It isn't granted.

Single-shot Red/Yellow/Green pretends conviction is a verdict. It isn't — it's a trajectory across multiple founder touchpoints. The shape of the curve is the signal.

Ethiack · cumulative conviction
+6Last touchpoint +1
4 touchpoints
Range −3 to +3 per signal
0+70-1Deck Read2026-04-22+2Founder Call · 45m2026-04-26+2Reference · 2 customers2026-04-29+1Tech Deep-Dive2026-05-02+1
Touchpoint 1
Deck Read
+2

Outcome metrics are sharp. 'Time-to-first-finding' beats vanity ARR.

2026-04-22
Touchpoint 2
Founder Call · 45m
+2

André answered the wrapper question without flinching. Showed the attack-graph internals on screen, not slides.

2026-04-26
Touchpoint 3
Reference · 2 customers
+1

One enterprise CISO renewed at 2.4x ACV. Second customer praised the false-positive rate (<3% per quarter).

2026-04-29
Touchpoint 4
Tech Deep-Dive
+1

Agent orchestration is real. Not perfect (queue contention >100 concurrent jobs) but addressable.

2026-05-02
★ Vani Kola's lens

"Conviction is built by repeated truth-telling under pressure, not by a single beautiful slide. The founders who survive a decade do because we trusted them after the third hard call — not after the first."

We instrument the third hard call. Pedro — your existing process collapses this into one line in a spreadsheet. We give you the curve.