FILE A PETITION three sentences is plenty
A petition is short — three sentences and a link to your work, usually. We are reading petitions in the order received. No fee. No referral. No deck. If you are seated, you will hear from the founder personally.
Tell us what you ship — and what twelve people are for.
No résumé. No deck. The petition asks plainly what you make, what is currently stuck, and what you intend to do with twelve serious people in a private room.
What we hold the room to — and why.
Who is this for?
Founders running their own products with their own money. Operators carrying P&L responsibility for a meaningful business. Artists running a serious paid practice. People who already ship, regularly, and want a higher standard than they currently have around them.
Who is this not for?
Spectators. People in the planning phase of their first thing. Serial cohort-collectors. Anyone whose theory of growth depends on someone else granting them permission. The petition surfaces this quickly — for us and for you.
What does a year look like?
Twelve months. Weekly meeting (one fixed hour, video). One private channel for between-meeting receipts. Two in-person convenings — one in Detroit, one elsewhere — for those who can travel. No homework beyond the standing format.
Is there a fee?
Stage I is offered without fee — a deliberate gift to the founding cohort, who help set the standard. Subsequent stages will carry modest annual dues, set by Stage I and disclosed publicly when announced.
How are seats decided?
The founder reads every petition personally. Seats are awarded for fit with the cohort's composition, the specificity and seriousness of the work, and the honesty of the petition. Strong work shown in lieu of a long letter is welcome.
What about confidentiality?
What is shared in the room stays in the room. Numbers, decisions, work-in-progress — none of it leaves the cohort. The roster is published; the contents of the meetings are not.
I'm not sure I'm a fit.
Petition anyway, in two sentences. If we are not a fit, we will tell you so honestly and quickly. We would rather read fifty petitions and seat twelve people well than gatekeep against the surprise candidate who reshuffles the rest.