Method

Twelve weeks from a sentence to a company.

Four stages, each with a decision at the end that a person signs. Nothing advances because a model recommended it.

Stage 01 · Weeks 1–2

Concept

Flows read the market, the competitors and the money while the team writes the thesis. We end with the sharpest version of the idea and the three assumptions it rests on.

Market mapThesisThree assumptions

Decision — do we test it, and which assumption first

Stage 02 · Weeks 3–6

Test

Something real in front of real customers before a line of production code is written. Landing pages, priced offers, concierge delivery, whatever answers the assumption fastest.

Live testPricing signalCost to serve

Decision — build, reframe or stop

Stage 03 · Weeks 7–12

Launch

Product, brand and company built as one thing. The venture gets its own identity, its own entity and its first customers before it leaves the studio.

ProductIdentityEntity and cap table

Decision — who runs it from here

Stage 04 · Ongoing

Board

Launch is not the end of the engagement. We take a seat, set the reporting rhythm and stay accountable for the thing we built through the rounds that follow.

Board seatQuarterly reportingNext round

Decision — scale, sell or hand over

What the machine does, and what it never does.

The flows

Read, draft, prototype, test, measure, report. Twenty-six of them, running through the night without a queue.

The room

Sets the direction, reads the evidence, kills the weak ideas and signs what ships. Nine people, one meeting a day.

The line

Everything that reaches a customer was chosen by someone who can be asked why.

Start at stage one.

Two weeks to know whether the idea holds. Tell us what it is and who it is for.