Venture studio software. Kill ideas early, and keep the record
FounderFold gives a venture studio an AI research bench and a shared method: more ideas sourced and scored with sources, most of them discarded with a written reason, and every project measured against gates the agents propose and your studio adjusts.
A studio’s edge is its kill rate
A studio wins by testing many ideas cheaply and stopping most of them before they cost a team. That only works if the evidence is checkable, the stop rules are written down before anyone falls in love, and the next search learns from the last one.
Idea funnel
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.Where the 412 ideas are now
- Discarded371
- On hold23
- In test14
- Accepted4
Why 371 ideas were discarded
- Competition128
- Small market74
- Compliance52
- Consultative sale41
- Operations33
- No detail recorded25
- Low attraction18
How FounderFold fits a studio
A research bench that cites
Research agents propose ideas against your thesis, with a score per criterion and a source for every claim.
Knock-outs before scoring
Your discard criteria run first. What fails is closed with its reason, so it does not come back next quarter dressed differently.
Comparable lifecycles across projects
Agents propose each project’s stages and gates from its business type and your studio’s profile, with the same gate logic, so partners can compare a three-week-old idea with a two-year-old company.
Tasks for agents or for people
Turn each project’s next step into a task for an agent or for a project lead, and apply the result you accept.
Lessons that update the thesis
Patterns from retrospectives become versioned changes to your criteria, logged with their reason.
Reports for partners
A portfolio PDF with a weighted pipeline value and its range, one to three pages per project, and the decisions pending.
Agents propose each lifecycle from a catalog by business type and your incubator profile; you approve it or change it. If your model is not in the catalog yet, they propose a new one.
Who uses it
Venture studios
Run each batch against your thesis and kill most ideas before they cost a team.
Company builders
Start from the lifecycle agents propose for each business type, adjust it once, and keep the same gate logic across every company you build.
Funds that build their own companies
Track the companies you start or back with the same stages, gates and reports.
Serial founders
Keep a portfolio of ideas honest with written kill criteria and numeric experiments.
Free tools for studios
Venture studio or corporate team?
The method is the same. A studio builds companies that stand on their own and answers to partners. A corporate team builds lines that must fit the company and answers to the board.
Run your studio’s next batch on FounderFold.
Early access is by invitation.