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Venture design
Business model, agentic architecture and go-to-market written as one system — the venture's DNA.
The Studio
A company-building machine that is itself alive.
Living Scale Up designs AI-native companies, tests their assumptions, then pairs them with elite CEOs and scales them. One engine. Same rails. Every venture.
The venture engine
Design. Prove. Launch. Scale.
Every venture runs the same engine, with explicit rework-or-launch decisions.
STAGE 01
Design
Venture DNA is written before a line of product exists — business model, agentic architecture, go-to-market. The problem is tested against the market and against our own skepticism, and the design is rewritten until it holds. The cheapest place to find the flaw is on paper.
TESTED ON PAPER FIRST
OUTPUT: VENTURE DNA
COST OF A REWRITE: A DOCUMENT
OUTPUT: VENTURE DNA
COST OF A REWRITE: A DOCUMENT
STAGE 02
Prove
Each design is built as a low-cost prototype and tested against a synthetic cohort — thousands of personas modelled on the real market — before the first real customer ever sees it. Simulation helps challenge assumptions; it does not establish real customer demand.
SYNTHETIC-COHORT TESTING
VERDICT: PROCEED / REWORK / STOP
BEFORE ANY GTM SPEND
VERDICT: PROCEED / REWORK / STOP
BEFORE ANY GTM SPEND
STAGE 03
Launch
We pair the venture with a human leader and prepare its operating core, responsibilities and permissions for launch. Infrastructure, security and regulatory requirements are assessed for the specific venture.
PREPARED FOR LAUNCH
AGENTS · PAYMENTS · SECURITY
VENTURE-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
AGENTS · PAYMENTS · SECURITY
VENTURE-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
STAGE 04
Scale
The human leader uses operating evidence and the company learning record to inform decisions and support growth. Ownership and financing terms are venture-specific; a financing outcome is not guaranteed.
FOUNDER-FIRST OWNERSHIP
ENGINEERED FOR SERIES A
BUILT TO COMPOUND
ENGINEERED FOR SERIES A
BUILT TO COMPOUND
The model
Six pillars, one studio.
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Test before build
Simulated cohorts challenge assumptions. Real customers are still needed to establish market demand.
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Shared rails
Reusable operating components support venture design. Hosting, security and regulatory scope are assessed for each venture.
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CEO pairing
Experienced operators lead ventures with tested assumptions, defined responsibilities and ownership on venture-specific terms.
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Capital architecture
Cap tables engineered for Series A from day zero. Founders keep a meaningful stake. Investors get a clean machine.
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Swiss sovereignty
Swiss origin, with infrastructure requirements and operational responsibilities defined for each venture.
Radical candor
We don’t screen ideas.
We select problems.
Most studios show you their wins. We show you the discipline — and ours sits upstream of any funnel. We do not screen and select ideas. We select real-life problems that AI-native capability can now solve, and we grow a company to address each one. Fewer ventures, chosen harder, each traceable to a problem someone actually has.
VENTURE LABSTANDARD
DESIGNPROBLEM-LED
VALIDATIONSYNTHETIC COHORT
RAILSSHARED · INHERITED
FIRST VENTURE1 · BUDDYLEADER
STATUS: ALIVE ▊