What if your best hit already slipped through your screen?
Originally published on LinkedIn, March 26, 2026
I was talking to a founder whose company recently who had scaled their screening from 100s to 1000s to 10,000+. The logic was simple: more shots on goal should increase your chances of a breakthrough.
That’s true – if you’re screening for the right thing.
High-throughput doesn’t just increase your chances of finding a hit. It increases the efficiency of your filter.
But screens don’t just find hits.
They define what a hit is allowed to be.
Expensive automation doesn’t fix a bad filter.
It just scales it.