Decisions

Hockystick's founding complaint is the deal that dies of silence. The decisions board makes outcomes explicit: every deal ends in Invest, Hold, or Pass, and a Pass carries a categorized reason that the founder receives.

How it works

1. 1Submit a decision from inside the deal room, or track everything on the Decisions board.
2. 2Invest and Hold record the state; Pass additionally requires a reason category.
3. 3The board shows every deal across the lifecycle — Sourcing through Invested or Passed — with its current decision state.
4. 4Deals with no activity for 14 days are flagged stale, so nothing quietly rots at the bottom of a column.

Pass reasons

Pass reasons are categorized — Valuation, Traction, Team, Market, Thesis fit, Timing — so the founder gets signal they can act on, and your own pass history becomes analyzable across deals.

Key rules

• Submitting a decision is a confirm-first action — it is visible to the founder, so it always requires an explicit confirmation click.
• Decisions are recorded with actor and date in the deal record.
• Your portfolio page derives from decisions: a company appears there when its deal reaches an invested state.