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I’ve Made $1.5M Worth of Mistakes. So I Built This

After losing more than $1.5M to bad decisions, I built the tool I wish I had years ago. Meet STRATmind — the decision engine I needed most

🚀 I Built STRATmind to Stop Making $1.5M Mistakes

Let me be honest with you.

In the past year alone, I lost over $1.5 million.
Not to fraud.
Not to the market.
To my own decisions.

The kind of decisions that feel smart at the time.
That you hope will work out.
That seem logical — until they aren't.

These weren’t rookie errors. They were strategic moves in crypto, business experiments, investment bets, and failed hypotheses. Each one felt like a coin toss I thought I could win.

But here’s the problem:

I’m not a chess master.
Neither are you.
And we shouldn’t have to be.

The Cost of Bad Decisions

Mistakes don’t just cost money — they cost time, momentum, energy, and confidence.
They delay the results we’re chasing.
They push our goals further out of reach.

Every time I got it wrong — and I’ve done that more times than I’d like to admit — it wasn’t because I was lazy or uninformed.
It was because I missed a critical factor,
didn’t consider enough outcomes,
or relied too heavily on gut feeling.

Sound familiar?

So I Built STRATmind

Not for “users.”
Not for some grand market.
I built it for myself.

Because I needed a system that could think with me — and sometimes, for me.
A second brain that wouldn’t get emotional.
A strategic assistant that could help me:

  • See blind spots

  • Break down complex decisions

  • Stress-test risky ideas

  • Avoid devastating errors

That’s what STRATmind is.

What It Does

STRATmind is a platform built to sharpen your decision-making across high-stakes areas like:

  • Business
    → Evaluate whether your next move makes sense — before you commit.

  • Y Combinator
    → Evaluate your startup based on Y Combinator's methodology, analyzing market potential, team strength, and overall strategy. At the end, you'll receive a 10-point score and see where your startup ranks among others.

  • Investment
    → Analyze trade-offs, risks, and outcomes before deploying capital.

  • Growth
    → Analyze your project and its departments to identify opportunities for growth and improvement. Get insights on potential strategies, innovations, and optimizations that can help scale your business effectively.

  • Sun Tzu
    → Assess your business decisions using Sun Tzu's strategic principles. Identify weaknesses, anticipate risks, and optimize your approach with time-tested military strategy applied to business.

This is not just a “tool.” It’s a safety net. A thinking partner.
A product built from pain.

Why It Matters

We live in a world of uncertainty.
And the people who win — the founders, operators, solopreneurs, investors —
they win because they minimize mistakes, not because they’re always right.

The less you f*ck up, the faster you win.

That’s the core principle of STRATmind.

Built by a Founder Who Hates Losing

If you’ve ever felt the sting of regret from a decision gone wrong,
If you've ever said, "I should’ve thought that through..."
If you're building something and want fewer detours, fewer costly lessons, fewer sleepless nights...

I made this for you.

This is just the beginning.
But it’s real. It works.
And it’s already helping me make better calls — every single day.

🔥 Bonus: Get Your Startup on the Top 100 Leaderboard

There’s one more thing I’m incredibly excited about...

The STRATmind Top 100.

It’s a real-time, AI-driven leaderboard that showcases the highest-rated startups evaluated by our Y Combinator Model — and you can get listed there for free.

If you're building something and want to put your idea to the test, here's what you get:

  • A full YC-style evaluation based on founder strength, market, traction, and more.

  • A public profile of your startup with your score, description, and social links.

  • The ability to gather votes from other users to climb the rankings.

It’s not just vanity. This is:

  • Proof of validation.

  • Credibility in front of investors.

  • Visibility for your idea — beyond your inner circle.

Want in?
Submit your startup for analysis through the Y Combinator Model, opt-in to the Top 100, and share the link with your audience. Let them vote, explore, and back you.

Every upvote moves you higher. Every new viewer is a chance for new partnerships, intros, and investor attention.

You’ve already taken the risk of building something.
Let the world see it. Let STRATmind help it grow.

Out of curiosity, I ran my own startup through my Y Combinator model… and it gave me a 4 out of 10 😂

Fair enough — no traction yet. I intentionally made it super strict.

Explore STRATmind: https://stratmind.ai
Docs & Models: https://docs.stratmind.ai

Mistakes are expensive. STRATmind is cheaper. 🧠

You can also:

  • ✅ Invite your team and collaborate with shared access

  • 🗂️ Create multiple projects or departments to organize decisions

  • 🔁 Track and revisit past evaluations to see how your thinking evolves

  • 🚀 Try everything for free — no credit card needed

Hop in, test it out, and see how it feels to make sharper decisions — in business, investments, or strategy.
It’s built for people who are tired of guessing. Just like I was.

👉 Start here and try it now.


See you in your inbox,
The WanderYak Team 🐂💨