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Six anonymized reads from the founding cohort. Real teams, real signals, names withheld until the cohort agrees to go public. First named case studies publish May 26, 2026.

◆ Live · First named studies publish May 26
Cohort read · AI-native Series A · 35 people
Team Operations leads Product Assessment by one stage. Capability is real; product reflects less of it. Closing the gap is the active cycle.
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Cohort read · Series B B2B SaaS · 80 people
Development Lifecycle ahead of Team Operations. Team Operations dimensions on Knowledge Management and Process & Iteration are the pacing constraint.
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Cohort read · AI-native Series A · 18 people
All three frameworks aligned at Stage 3. Compound Ready conditions met. The cohort case study runs through what changed in cycles 6 to 12.
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Cohort read · Series A health-tech · 25 people
Product Assessment ahead of Team Operations. Shipping AI-native cadence with team operations gap. Sustaining velocity past current cycle is the test.
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Cohort read · Series B SaaS · 120 people
Team-product gap closing cycle over cycle. Cycle 4 to cycle 14: composite score moved from 51 to 67. Pattern transition recorded.
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Cohort read · Pre-Series A AI · 8 people
Foundation stage across all three frameworks. Day 1 read: build context first, then operations. Cycle 1 plan ranks Spec & Context Quality as the move.
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The design-partner cohort gets six months free, founder-direct support, and first-look at every primitive. We are still selecting from Series A through Series C teams. If your read fits one of the patterns above, the door is open.

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What each case study will show

What you'll learn
from each study.

01
The starting pattern
The state DAC read on day 1: where the team sat across Team Operations, Development Lifecycle, and Product Assessment. Real stage numbers and the gap that was driving the work.
02
The top gap
The single dimension DAC named as the highest-leverage improvement. Which function it belonged to. Why that dimension was constraining everything above it.
03
The action taken
What the team actually did. The Linear tickets that came out of ◆ DAC-coach. The cycle commitments. The specific changes that moved the number.
04
The outcome
Stage change over 90 days. Score delta. Pattern transition if one occurred. Honest reporting, including cases where the gap didn't close and what was learned.

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