Failure Patterns

Most startups fail for a small number of recurring, recognisable reasons. Orin maintains a library of these patterns — drawn from Indian startup data and sector-specific knowledge — and scans your current state against them overnight.

What gets detected

• —Fundraising patterns — raising too much too early, no investor-thesis clarity.
• —Team patterns — solo founder scaling past MVP, all-technical co-founder overlap.
• —Financial patterns — short runway against the next milestone, negative gross margin at revenue stage.
• —Product patterns — building without customer conversations, feature creep before a first paying customer.
• —Go-to-market patterns — enterprise sales before product–market fit, paid acquisition before organic validation.
• —Sector-specific — EdTech without an institutional channel, FinTech without regulatory clarity, HealthTech without data-protection compliance.

How to act on a flag

Each pattern comes with a severity, a confidence level, and a concrete intervention. When Orin flags a risk in your Morning Brief, it tells you what it sees and the single most effective next step — for example, recalibrate your raise, activate co-founder matching, or fix unit economics before raising.