Startup Suite — Five Modules for Founders

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Five diagnostic modules covering the structural questions that determine whether a venture succeeds: strategic clarity before building, hiring architecture, scaling fragility, AI automation sequencing, and co-founder alignment. Powered by Claude AI. Results within hours.

Free Fragility Snapshot: 12 questions, 5 minutes, immediate Claude AI output. No credit card required.

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S1 — Founder Blueprint
Strategic clarity before building the wrong thing
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S2 — Hiring Intelligence
Role architecture, candidate profile, screening criteria
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S3 — Scaling Fragility
Why growth is producing coordination overhead
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S4 — AI ROI Scanner
Automation sequencing before hiring
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S5 — Co-founder Cohesion
Divergence map across roles, decisions, equity
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Who the Startup Suite serves

Founders at every structural inflection point.

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Pre-product founders

The Founder Blueprint applies the same pre-investment diagnostic logic an institutional investor uses — before external capital is committed.

Pre-seed

First-hire founders

The Hiring Intelligence module runs the role architecture and candidate profile before the job description is written. The wrong senior hire costs £60,000-£150,000 in direct costs plus 6-18 months of lost momentum.

Pre-seed to Seed
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Growing founders

The Scaling Fragility Scanner identifies the specific structural mechanism producing velocity decline as headcount grows — across six startup-calibrated dimensions.

Seed to Series A
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Co-founder pairs

16% of startups fail due to founder disputes. The Co-founder Cohesion Diagnostic surfaces the structural precursors 6-12 months before they become operationally damaging.

Any stage
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Founders automating before hiring

The AI ROI Scanner identifies the highest-value automation opportunities ranked by time cost, error frequency, and strategic value — with specific tool recommendations and a hire versus automate verdict.

Any stage
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Founders considering exit

The Startup Exit Readiness module applies an acquirer's structural due diligence logic before the sale process begins. Auditable operations command 15-30% valuation uplifts.

Seed to Series A
Five Modules

One for every structural question a founder faces.

Each module runs immediately on completion. The Claude AI consultant is available within hours, seeded with the full report.

S1 — Founder Blueprint

Strategic clarity before external capital is committed.

"Six months of work. The Founder Blueprint applies the same pre-investment diagnostic logic a well-prepared institutional investor uses — before the investor sees it."

The Blueprint produces a specific verdict on each strategic component: problem clarity, market specificity, product differentiation, business model structure, team composition, and immediate priority. The output is sequenced and prescriptive. Evidence gating is applied throughout — unverified claims are marked explicitly and excluded from primary findings.

Problem clarity score with a specific explanation of the evidence supporting it
Steelman objection for each strategic claim — the strongest evidence-based counter-argument
The single most important constraint — named, with the specific action required
90-day priority plan — three sequenced actions connected to specific findings
Red flag summary — fundamental structural problems with the venture thesis, stated directly
Included in Founder OS
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Problem Clarity Score
4.2
Moderate — sharpening required
90-Day Priority Plan
Validate with 20 non-network customers before committing further development resource
Redefine target customer by behaviour, not by demographic — 'a CFO who has missed a compliance deadline' not 'CFOs at mid-market companies'
Price the product before building it. A letter of intent from one paying customer validates demand more effectively than any market research
The one constraint →
S2 — Hiring Intelligence

Role architecture and candidate profile before the job description is written.

"The hiring decision is irreversible for 6-12 months. The Hiring Intelligence module runs the architecture before that commitment is made."

Four layers: role architecture (should you hire this role at all, at this stage), job architecture (outcomes, decision rights, failure modes), candidate architecture (profile, anti-profile, disqualifiers), and screening intelligence (structured questions, work sample brief, reference guide). Optimism bias correction is applied — founders systematically overestimate hiring readiness.

Role verdict — whether this hire is the right structural priority at this stage
Job architecture — 30/60/90-day outcomes, decision rights, three most likely failure modes
Candidate anti-profile — the person who looks right but consistently underperforms in this role
Structured job description ready for publication
Screening questions and work sample brief specific to this role
Included in Founder OS
or £349 standalone per role Start now
Role Architecture — Head of Growth
Hire after two acquisition channels convert at £40 CAC or below.
The organisation does not yet have a repeatable acquisition channel. A Growth hire cannot resolve this structural gap.
If you proceed: the right profile is an operator who has built channels from scratch, not a strategist who has managed existing ones.
Anti-profile
Avoid the candidate who presents a 90-day growth strategy in the interview. Without a channel to execute against, the strategy is decorative.
S3 — Scaling Fragility Scanner

The structural mechanism producing velocity decline as headcount grows.

"70% of new ventures collapse in years 2-5 as scaling complexity compounds structural weaknesses. The Scaling Fragility Scanner identifies the specific mechanism."

Six startup-calibrated dimensions: Founder SPOF, Knowledge Concentration, Delivery Load, Co-founder and Team Dynamics, Growth Architecture, and Revenue Concentration. Produces a Startup Fragility Score benchmarked against founders at the same stage, an archetype identification from seven documented startup failure patterns, and a root cause analysis that distinguishes the structural driver from the presenting symptom.

Startup Fragility Score (0-100) benchmarked against stage peers — with severity interpretation
Archetype identification from seven startup failure mode patterns
Root cause analysis distinguishing structural driver from presenting symptom
Founder action plan — three specific sequenced actions
Optimism bias correction applied — especially to SD1 Founder SPOF
Included in Founder OS
or £399 standalone Start now
Startup Fragility Score
74
HIGH FRAGILITY
Archetype Identified
The Indispensable Founder
The founder is the structural SPOF across 6 of 7 critical functions
The business cannot operate for four weeks without founder involvement
First hires are dependent on the founder for direction rather than operating independently
3 delegation actions to start this week →
S4 — AI ROI Scanner

Automation sequencing before hiring decisions are made.

"The highest-ROI automations are almost always the processes that are boring, repetitive, and consuming 5-10 hours of team time per week."

Identifies automation opportunities ranked by time cost, error frequency, scalability ceiling, and strategic value. Produces specific tool recommendations, not general guidance. Includes a hire versus automate verdict for every planned role — where automation is the more capital-efficient solution, the report says so directly.

Top 5 automation opportunities ranked by ROI with specific tool recommendations
Hire versus automate verdict for each planned role in the next 6 months
Three quick wins achievable in under one week with no-code tools
Estimated monthly saving — presented as a range with stated assumptions
Data protection note: verify GDPR and local compliance before implementing any tool processing personal data
Included in Founder OS
or £249 standalone Start now
Top Automation Opportunities
1. Lead enrichment — Clay + Claude API. 8 hours/week saved. Implement before hiring BDR.
2. Invoice reconciliation — Make + Xero webhook. 4 hours/week saved. Quick win: 2 days.
3. Client onboarding emails — Resend + Supabase trigger. 3 hours/week saved.
Estimated saving: £1,800-£2,800/month
S5 — Co-founder Cohesion

The divergence map between co-founders, produced from independent completion.

"16% of startups fail due to founder disputes. The structural precursors are detectable 6-12 months before the relationship becomes operationally damaging."

Each co-founder completes the diagnostic independently. The divergence between their responses is the primary finding. The report maps divergence across six dimensions, rates it by severity, and identifies the primary structural intervention. If only one co-founder completes, the report states this explicitly — the refusal is itself a structural signal.

Divergence map across role clarity, decision rights, equity perception, and vision alignment — severity-rated
Role clarity verdict — whether co-founders share a consistent model of who owns which decisions
Equity perception assessment — whether both founders consider the current structure fair
Primary structural intervention with specific implementation steps
Internal consistency checking applied within each co-founder's responses separately
Included in Founder Pro
both founders · or £249 standalone Start now
Co-founder Divergence — Decision Rights
Founder A3.1 / 10
Founder B7.4 / 10
Critical divergence — 4.3 points. The co-founders are not operating with the same model of who owns which decisions. This divergence is a structural source of friction that compounds at scale.
Primary structural intervention →
Founder OS

All five modules. Subscription-based. Progress tracked across time.

The subscription model reflects how founders actually use structural diagnostics — not once, but at every inflection point. The free tier provides genuine output, not a teaser.

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  • Fragility Snapshot — 12 questions
  • 1 dimension — SD1 Founder SPOF
  • Immediate Claude AI output
  • Full module access
  • AI consultant sessions
  • Progress tracking
  • Benchmark comparisons
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Founder Pro
£149
per month · cancel anytime
  • All 5 modules + S6 Exit Readiness
  • Unlimited Claude AI consultant sessions
  • Co-founder seat included
  • Independent co-founder completion
  • Divergence analysis included
  • Progress tracking and trend alerts
  • Full benchmark comparisons
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Why subscription and not per-module?
A founder at Seed stage faces different structural questions at month 1, month 6, and month 12. The Fragility Scanner run at 5 people tells a different story than the same scan at 15 people. Progress tracking — seeing how scores move as the structure is built — is only possible with persistent access. The subscription is the appropriate model for a diagnostic that compounds in value over time.
Why the free tier gives real output?
The free Fragility Snapshot runs 12 questions across the single highest-signal dimension — Founder SPOF. The output is a genuine structural finding with a confidence rating and a specific action. To see the remaining five dimensions, track progress over time, or interrogate findings with the Claude AI consultant, the subscription is required. The gap between free and paid is specific and felt immediately.
Accelerators and VCs

Structural diagnostics for every founder in the cohort.

Cohort licences provide all five modules to every founder in a programme, with anonymised aggregate Fragility benchmarking across the cohort and a structural health narrative for programme reporting.

£1,800 Up to 10 founders. All 5 modules. Cohort aggregate Fragility data.
£3,600 Up to 25 founders. All modules. Quarterly cohort structural health report.
£6k+ VC portfolio licence. Unlimited portfolio company access. Cross-portfolio benchmarking.
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Spring Cohort 2025
Regional Accelerator
18 founders
Portfolio Programme
Seed VC Fund
32 companies
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Founder Programme
University Incubator
12 founders
Average cohort Fragility Index
58
Controlled to Fragile band — typical for Seed cohorts
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