Mode 01
Pilot
We co-build a venture that solves your specific failure mode and run it as a paid pilot inside your operating envelope. You get a working product on real data; we get the conviction the venture is investable.
8–16 weeks · pilot scope
// For Corporates · The Studio
Pilot the unsolved problem.
You run infrastructure, industry, capital rails or commerce that’s getting harder to run. Some failure modes are too specific for the incumbent stack and too risky to build internally. Bring those to us — we co-build the venture that solves them, and you pilot it on real data.
Bring us a problem01 // What partnership means
“The best ventures we’ve built started with one operator who refused to keep working around the same problem.”
We don’t do innovation theatre. We don’t want a hackathon. We want the operational failure that’s been in your risk register for three years and keeps getting deferred.
Bring it to us with the data, the constraints, and a sponsor who can clear a 90-day pilot path. We bring the operator- founder, the build team and the conviction that the venture is worth backing past your pilot.
02 // Three engagement modes
Pick the depth that fits the problem.
- Mode 02
Co-development
Deeper than a pilot — we share IP, infrastructure or distribution to accelerate a venture into your category. Used when the problem maps across multiple operators and the long-term play is shared infrastructure.
6–18 months · structured agreement - Mode 03
Signal-sharing
Lighter touch. You share the failure modes you can't prioritize; we share the ventures and fellows we're tracking. No commitment beyond a quarterly working session.
Quarterly · no commitment
03 // Where we already work
Six opportunity spaces, six entry vectors.
Each POD is a live thesis with active fellows and pilots underway. If your problem maps to any of them, we already have the operator-founder and the conviction.
- POD 01Infrastructure IntelligenceIntelligence layer for critical infrastructureRead the thesis
- POD 02Decarb IndustryAI-native industrial decarbonizationRead the thesis
- POD 03Capital InfrastructureProgrammable economic infrastructureRead the thesis
- POD 04National ResilienceDigital & energy sovereignty infrastructureRead the thesis
- POD 05CommerceAI-native commerce infrastructure for the Middle EastRead the thesis
- POD 06OpportunisticHigh-conviction ventures outside core thesis podsRead the thesis
04 // How it actually works
From first call to pilot exit.
- 01
Bring us the problem.
30-minute call with a Studio partner. Describe the failure mode in operational terms — what breaks, where it hurts, what you've tried. We'll tell you within a week whether it maps to one of our active PODs.
- 02
Define the pilot.
Two-week scoping. We agree on the success metric, the data we need access to, the operational guardrails and the commercial terms. Output: a one-page pilot charter both sides sign.
- 03
Build alongside.
A Co-Build Fellow plus Studio operators embed with your team. Same Slack, weekly demos, shared scoreboard. We ship working software, not slide decks.
- 04
Convert or end clean.
At pilot exit you choose: convert to commercial customer, become a co-development partner, or walk. Either way you keep what was built for your operations, and we keep the conviction.
05 // Bring us a problem
What kind of problem are you carrying?
Pick the closest framing. Each one routes to a Studio partner who reads pilots in that lane. We respond inside a week.
- Operations
Reliability, uptime, predictive maintenance, cost-of-failure problems where the data exists but isn't read.
Bring us this problem - Procurement
Categories where you're paying for a service the market hasn't built yet, and you'd rather have it native.
Bring us this problem - Strategy
Adjacent platforms or verticals where you have unfair distribution but no internal mandate to build.
Bring us this problem