Five seats · six months

I'm not hiring. I'm making founders.

Six months after leaving corporate, the practice was real: five of five clients entered at a four-figure milestone and expanded on evidence, twelve of twelve delivered milestones priced at or under $8,375, and one client grew a self-built prototype into $23.5K of production milestones. grade: measured — deal ledger What I can't hand you is my network or my scar tissue — that part you bring. So the only honest promise is this one: you could do better, worse, or the same.

The precedent, plainly: those months were worked alongside a second job — no map, no tooling, building the platform while running clients on it. You'd start with both.

Why this exists

I've hit the ceiling of me.

The demand in front of this practice is bigger than my hours, and what I do doesn't work as a job — it only works as an ownership. So I'm not hiring. Five people will build their own practice — their name, their clients, their revenue — bootstrapped by three things nobody handed me:

01 · The map

My books, open

Real SOWs, recorded sales calls, live pipeline, the full motion from first conversation to production-grade platform. Not a course. The actual artifacts, as they ran.

02 · The machete

My platform, in your hands

The same governed delivery infrastructure I run every engagement on — the gates, the evidence chain, the review pipeline. You start where I am, not where I started.

03 · Me, vested

Your deals, my name on the line

Every deal gets reviewed before it goes out. Every call gets prepped — and debriefed after. It happens on a defined weekly rhythm: one 90-minute live block, all five of us — wins and receipts, one deal in the hot seat, questions, commitments — with daily async coaching on the platform between blocks. The block never goes dark; the system is the product, and my live layer rides on top of it. And half my fee only exists if you win — with your outcome published on the public ledger either way.

Term sheet — Founding FivePlain terms · no fine print beneath
Seats5 — this offer closes when they're filled, not on a countdown timer
Term6 months, founder-paced
Entry$7,500 to enter
Success fee$7,500 — due when your practice signs its first $10K+ SOW. Entry deals are priced smaller than that on purpose — that's the method — so this fee only exists when the expansion ladder works. Never cross it, never pay it.
CadenceOne 90-minute live block every week, plus daily async coaching on the platform. The block never goes dark.
MeasurementTwelve dimensions, graded three times: week 1, week 12, week 23. Your delta publishes with your row.
AccountabilityYour outcome publishes on the calibration ledger — win or miss — graded like my own numbers. Rows FF-001 through FF-005 are already reserved. My failure would be public too. Price my incentives accordingly.
What you ownEverything. Your practice, your clients, your name — you leave as the Principal of your own practice. This is not a franchise and not employment.

Who this is for — I don't care what your business card says

  • The exec who won the game once — and found out the prize was just more game.
  • The blue-collar builder — underestimated by people they out-think, quietly building with AI after the shift ends.
  • The domain expert — who knows an industry's pain from the inside. The founders I learned the most from came from exam rooms and hospital floors, not boardrooms.
  • The marketing mind — who can smell real product-market fit through a wall.
1

You've built something real with AI that nobody asked you to build.

Obsession, not curiosity. A thing that exists because you couldn't not make it.

2

You can name one human who might pay you.

Your first client is already in your phone. If they aren't, this isn't your season yet — and that's a cheaper lesson free.

One email, read by me

What you built. Who might pay you. Why now.

Subject line "Founding Five." No deck needed — the filters above are the application.

[email protected]
The honest print, on top My results are mine — not typical, not a guarantee, not a projection of yours. They sit on the claims ledger with honesty grades, including the ones still marked "asserted." AI will keep compressing jobs; I can't stop that. What I can do is put the tools in five sets of the right hands — and stand there while you swing them. Better, worse, or the same: that part is yours.