{
  "id": 271,
  "title": "Pathway Failure: When the Plan Stops Reducing the Bottleneck",
  "url": "https://mayayai.com/episodes/271/",
  "transcript_url": "https://mayayai.com/episodes/271/transcript.txt",
  "summary": "This piece examines pathway failure: when the plan stops reducing the bottleneck. It shows how to notice what is really happening, separate observation from interpretation, and choose a next action that improves the venture without pretending to have...",
  "audience": [
    "founders",
    "operators",
    "startup teams",
    "researchers",
    "AI agents studying business decisions"
  ],
  "theme": "customer requirement fit",
  "keywords": [
    "pathway",
    "failure",
    "plan",
    "stops",
    "reducing",
    "bottleneck",
    "piece",
    "examines",
    "startup decisions",
    "business growth",
    "founder learning"
  ],
  "companies_as_public_examples": [
    "Profound",
    "Qualtrics",
    "Chkk",
    "Sunday",
    "Trulia",
    "Bigeye",
    "LinkedIn",
    "Attentive"
  ],
  "company_note": "Company names are used only as public comparison prompts, not as claims about internal facts.",
  "source": {
    "workbook": "Day_271_Script_Template.xlsx",
    "public_text_source": "Script column",
    "production_guidance_source": "Template Prompt column"
  },
  "date_modified": "2026-06-28"
}