Manned Program · Embedded Venture Building
Turn a validated opportunity into a company with aligned product, commercial, and fundraising logic. A six-month embedded programme for founders who are past validation and need to build commercial traction, operating structure, and investor readiness around a real opportunity.
CHF 6,000 / month·3% equity·6 months
Why founders choose Build
Validation tells you whether there is a venture worth building.
Build is what happens next.
This is the stage where technical founders need more than advice. They need commercial structure, execution discipline, and direct help turning early evidence into traction, team design, and investor readiness.
Build exists to close the gap between a validated opportunity and a company that can operate, sell, and raise with credibility.
What usually breaks next
A validated market is not the same as a live commercial path. Build helps identify the strongest near-term opportunity and move it forward with focus.
Founders often have technology momentum but weak commercial infrastructure. Build helps create the basics that a company needs to operate: priorities, process, positioning, and decision rhythm.
Many early ventures hire too early, too late, or in the wrong order. Build helps define what capability is needed next and what should stay founder-led for now.
Investors do not fund ambition alone. Build helps turn customer evidence, commercial priorities, and operating structure into a more credible fundraising case.
Six months of focused execution
We start inside the venture: technology, team, customer logic, current traction, and the fastest credible path forward. The goal is to establish priorities, not create presentation theatre.
We identify the strongest first-customer opportunity and work it directly. That can include outreach support, meeting preparation, proposal shaping, commercial follow-up, and decision support.
In parallel, we build the commercial layer the venture needs next: go-to-market logic, pricing thinking, partnership structure, hiring priorities, and the first investor-facing narrative grounded in real evidence.
Expected outcomes
Build is designed to leave the founder with more than activity. The point is to leave with stronger company logic and better execution footing.
Pricing
Embedded support. Shared upside. Clear commercial terms.
Six months of embedded venture-building support
Six months of embedded venture-building support
/month + 3% equity · 6 months
Common founder questions
Build is priced at CHF 6,000 per month plus 3% equity. The commercial structure is agreed upfront before the program begins.
No. But founders coming from Validate enter Build with clearer customer and commercial evidence, and receive a CHF 2,000 credit if they proceed within 90 days.
It means direct, accountable involvement in the work that matters: weekly working sessions, async support between sessions, and hands-on input into customer conversations, commercial decisions, and investor preparation.
Next step
If the venture is past validation and now needs traction, operating structure, and investor readiness, Build is the hands-on programme designed for that stage.
Apply for Build
Start the process. We will assess fit after an intake call and confirm the next step.
Apply for BuildBook an intake call
30 minutes. Honest assessment of fit and stage.
Book an intake callBy the later stage of Build, the company should have stronger traction logic, clearer commercial priorities, and materials that reflect a more credible operating story. If fundraising is the next move, the handoff into Raise is direct.
No. Build is designed as embedded venture-building support. The work is tied to traction, structure, and execution priorities inside the company, not just advice from the outside.
No. Build improves the company's traction path, operating structure, and fundraising readiness. It does not promise a guaranteed commercial or financing outcome on a fixed timeline.
If fundraising is the right next move, the company can transition directly into Raise with materials and narrative already in place. If not, the founder leaves with stronger commercial structure and clearer next priorities.
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If fundraising is the right next move after Build, Raise provides end-to-end support to close the round — no upfront cost, no equity taken.
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