Atlas Venture Studio

Review and verdict

Recording continue, revise or stop with a memo.

When to review#

At the decision date — or sooner if the evidence is clear — you record a verdict. The platform shows the evidence; the decision is always yours, and nothing on the screen suggests one. When a live test passes its decision date, a red Needs you card and a due badge on the Review tab remind you.

The Review tab#

Everything needed is on one screen:

  • a scorecard: every metric with its value, target and Met / Not yet, plus offer-test hours against the cap;
  • each feasibility risk with its current status;
  • the verdict form;
  • Past reviews on the right, newest first, each with its verdict tag, date and memo.

Recording a verdict#

  1. Choose a verdict card. None is pre-selected.
    • Continue — demand is there; move towards a pilot.
    • Revise — change buyer, offer, price or channel and test again.
    • Stop — no demand; close the test.
  2. Write the memo: the reasoning, on this evidence. It is required. The structure in docs/review-memo-template.md is a good guide.
  3. Click Record verdict (it stays disabled until a verdict is chosen). Toast: "Verdict recorded". The review appears at the top of Past reviews.

You can record as many reviews as you like — a mid-test check and a final verdict, for example — and all are kept.

What a verdict does not do#

Recording a verdict changes nothing else. It does not pause, close or republish the experiment, and continue does not unlock demo or pilot hours while risks are open. Take those actions separately: Pause, resume and republish, Close and export.