You have a decision in front of you. It is real, it has consequences, and you have been "thinking about it" for two weeks. You have read four threads on IndieHackers, asked two friends, made a Notion doc of pros and cons, and still feel undecided.

This is the Overanalysis Loop. It is the single most common pattern Lumina detects in solo founders, and it is almost always invisible to the person inside it.

The mechanism is simple. Every new piece of information creates more uncertainty, not less, because you can always find a counter-example. Reading about how a competitor failed makes you afraid. Reading about how another competitor succeeded makes you feel behind. The data moves. You do not.

The cost compounds. While you are researching, the market moves. Your runway shortens. The window for the decision you were originally considering closes. And the decision you face next month is harder, with less optionality, than the one you were avoiding.

The exit is not more research. It is a forced decision under a deadline you commit to publicly. Tell someone. Write a date. The deadline does not need to be arbitrary — it can be a real consequence (the contractor's quote expires, the co-founder's patience expires, the market window closes). What matters is that it is binding.

The one move: pick a date, write it down, tell a person, and stop researching after that date. The decision will not feel "ready." Do it anyway. Most founders report that the decision made under deadline is not worse than the one they spent three months on — and the months they got back are worth everything.

Lumina's free analyzer can tell you in 60 seconds whether you are in the Overanalysis Loop right now. It names the pattern and gives you one concrete move.