A CEO sent me a DM yesterday afternoon. Aviation learning platform. Wanted to talk about a partnership with my smaller aviation API (Rotatepilot — question banks, METAR decoder, airport lookups). Real founder, real platform, real intent. I had two options: Reply with my usual qualifying questions, schedule a 30 min call later in the week, do the meeting, agree on what to build, build it, send it for review, iterate. Build it now and send the link. I went with option 2. 90 minutes of work. The conversation flipped from "show me what this looks like" to "what's the commercial shape." Here's how, and why I'll do this for every inbound partnership conversation from now on. The DM that triggered this From the CEO of SkyX International (aviation learning platform, Public Beta on Product Hunt): "We are interested in your RotatePilot website, since it includes crucial tools that we think can help us develop a large selection of aviation tools. Your data bank (ATPL/PPL questions, API…) also fascinates us.…