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Service 03 · Starting a venture beside your business

AI Venture Build

A new AI venture built on what your business already has: customers, data and distribution. Phased and gated, with your own customers as the first channel.

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Your situation

You hold what a startup can't buy.

You're a promoter or a next-generation leader at a family-owned or mid-market business, in India, the GCC or a diaspora network. Your business already has customers who trust it, data, and distribution.

What it doesn't have is a team that builds ventures, or a way to start one without distracting the core business.

What you get

A venture, and the evidence to back each step.

AI Venture Build · what you receive7 deliverables
  1. An asset map

    What your business holds that a startup can't.

  2. Market and opportunity

    Competitive gaps named, demand evidence, and a category decision.

  3. A venture thesis, ICP and positioning

    The ICP comes with its exclusions.

  4. Kill criteria

    Set before anything is built.

  5. A prototype tested with your real customers

    Reviewed against the kill criteria.

  6. The build and launch

    With launch creative, instrumentation for activation and retention, and a weekly metric review.

  7. A written go-to-market plan

    With a named owner on your side.

How it runs

Three phases. Each one earns the next.

Most corporate ventures fail on go-to-market and on interference from the core business, rarely on technology. So go-to-market is written into the scope, with an owner.

  1. Phase 1 · Venture thesis

    Is there a venture here?

    • Asset map, market and opportunity
    • Thesis, ICP with exclusions, positioning
    • Kill criteria, before anything is built
    GateA go or no-go recommendation for phase 2.
  2. Phase 2 · Prototype and validation

    Do your customers want it?

    • A prototype tested with your business's real customers
    • An evidence review against the kill criteria
    GateThe evidence clears the kill criteria, or we stop.
  3. Phase 3 · Build and launch

    Build it, and take it to market

    • The AI Product Build stages, applied to the venture
    • A written go-to-market plan with a named owner
    • Launch creative, instrumentation, weekly metric review
    GateGo-to-market has an owner on your side before launch.
Work

Ventures we built end to end

Our own ventures: thesis, brand, product and build. Our first client venture is in build. We'll publish it when it launches.

All ventures
How it's priced

Phase by phase, fees first.

Each phase is scoped and priced in writing before it starts, and funded phase by phase. You can stop at any milestone and pay only for the milestones completed.

A success fee, equity or revenue share comes only after launch, and only on top of fees. In regulated sectors such as wealth and finance, legal review comes before any equity or revenue share.

What we need from you

A decision-maker and a go-to-market owner.

  • A decision-maker

    Someone who can say go or stop at each gate.

  • Access to your business's customers and data

    They are the venture's first channel.

  • Funding phase by phase

    So each phase earns the next.

  • A named go-to-market owner on your side

What this is not

Not a venture you hand off.

  • Not this: An equity-only build.

    Instead: Full fees. Equity comes only with an established business, only after launch, and only on top of fees.

  • Not this: A venture build for a founder with only an idea.

    Instead: A venture for an established business, built on the customers, data and distribution it already has.

  • Not this: A venture without an owner.

    Instead: Your business owns go-to-market, with a written plan and a named owner on your side.

Questions

Before you book

All questions

Do you take equity?

Only when we're building a new venture with an established business, only after launch, and only on top of fees. We don't do equity-only builds.

What if it doesn't work out?

The kill criteria are set before anything is built, so a venture that doesn't clear them stops. You can stop at any milestone, and you pay only for the milestones completed.

How do payments work?

Milestone-based, as set out in your proposal, funded phase by phase.

Next step

Tell us what your business already has.

We reply the same business day.

From the Journal

What your family business has that no AI startup can buy

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Every venture needs to look like it works.

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