From conversation to commitment
A 'yes' isn't evidence until someone gives something up for it.
Your job: turn an interested conversation into a costly, countable signal.
Help me make the ask Read `offer://current` and `competitive://current`. Draft an ask anchored to the customer's existing alternative, and list the three objections I'm most likely to hear — and how to disarm each. claude mcp add --transport http leanspark https://leanspark.ai/mcp Connect first →
What you get back
Turns your validated forces into a focused ask anchored to the customer's real alternative, then tracks what people actually commit — money, time, a signed yes — so "interested" and "committed" never blur. You make the ask to a real person and log what they actually gave up.
A drafted ask with the right next-rung commitment, and a tracker that scores your real commitment rate.
A great interview tells you a problem is real. It doesn’t tell you anyone will pay to solve it. For that, you need the other half of talking to customers: asking for a commitment — and watching what happens.
Talk is cheap, which is exactly why it’s a weak signal. The strong signal is the moment a customer gives up something they value — time, money, reputation — to move toward your solution. A meeting booked on their calendar. An intro to their boss. A deposit. A signed letter of intent. “That’s really interesting” costs nothing and means nothing. A fifty-dollar pre-order is worth more than fifty people saying “I’d totally use this.” A commitment costs something, and that’s what makes it evidence.
The commitment ladder. Escalate the ask. First, time (a follow-up, a referral). Then reputation (an intro, a public yes). Then money (a pre-order, a deposit). Each rung costs more — and each “yes” is worth proportionally more as evidence.