How we work
Six stages. Permission to stop at each one.
The studio lifecycle is a set of gates. Advancing is a decision, not a momentum default.
Discover
Frame the buyer, the pain and the constraint. Output: a one-page thesis and a list of facts we do not have.
Validate
Talk to buyers or run a narrow test. Output: evidence to continue, reshape or stop.
Design
Operating model, product boundary, architecture and the legal questions counsel must answer. Output: a blueprint an engineer and a lawyer can both read.
Build
A first release with an owner, a security review proportionate to what it can lose, and instrumentation.
Launch
A named market, a support path and a measure that is not vanity traffic.
Scale
The founder team takes the operating system. Studio work continues only under a new scope. At month 48 the special studio protection ends.
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