Sec 01 / Program

Work scoped to the constraint.

Deeptech companies do not progress through neat stages, so the work cannot be shaped like a curriculum. Engagements are built around what is rate-limiting in the company right now.

What it is not

  • A cohort with a demo day.
  • A fixed twelve-week curriculum.
  • Mentorship from the sidelines.
  • A standard term sheet applied to every company.

We work inside the company-building problem with the founding team.

Sometimes that lasts a week — a design review, a supplier negotiation, a test campaign. Sometimes it lasts years, from formation through the first production line. The shape follows the technical and industrial problem.

Tracks

Where the work usually starts.

01

Company formation

Working with scientists and engineers at the point where a result becomes a company: architecture decisions, founding team, IP structure, and the first technical plan that a customer and an investor can both read.

  • founding team
  • IP position
  • technical plan
  • first capital
02

Constraint work

Periods of concentrated work on whatever is rate-limiting: a design review, a yield problem, a supplier negotiation, a test campaign, a hiring gap, a qualification file. Scoped to the constraint, not to a calendar.

  • design review
  • test campaign
  • make / buy
  • hiring
03

Industrialisation

Moving from a working unit to a repeatable one: production process, tooling, supplier qualification, test coverage, unit economics and the capital required to build the first line.

  • process
  • tooling
  • supplier audit
  • unit economics
04

Deployment

Getting the system into the environment it has to survive, with a real operator and real integration — structured so a successful trial converts into a purchase order rather than a case study.

  • site access
  • integration
  • acceptance criteria
  • procurement

Surfaces we work on

  • Architecture
  • Product
  • Talent
  • Supply
  • Manufacturing
  • Qualification
  • Deployment
  • Capital

Build something difficult.