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Startup Studio · Est. 2026 · New York

12 startups.
Built month to month.

One new venture every month, shipped to real customers. The ones that earn revenue get more fuel. The ones that don't get cut. No roadmap we pray over — a scoreboard we act on.

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01 / The problem

Most startups die waiting to find out they were wrong.

The usual playbook: pick one idea, raise on a story, spend eighteen months building it — and learn the hard way whether anyone actually wanted it.

THE BIG BET

Everything on one idea

A year and a payroll riding on a product nobody has paid a dollar for yet.

THE BLIND SPOT

Opinions over evidence

The call gets made in a conference room instead of in a market that can say no.

THE CLOCK

Too slow to matter

By the time it ships, the window moved — and the learning cost a year.

We do the opposite. Twelve small bets, one a month, each one judged by real customers — not by us.

02 / How it works

One month. One venture. One verdict.

The same loop, every month. Fast enough to learn, honest enough to act on what it tells us.

01

Find a real problem

We talk to operators before we write a line of code. No problem, no build.

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Ship in weeks

A working product in front of paying customers — fast, not someday.

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Sell it directly

Every build has to earn its first paying users. No free pilots that prove nothing.

04

Scale or shut down

Traction gets more fuel. No traction gets cut. The numbers decide — opinions don't.

03 / The portfolio

Twelve ventures. One scoreboard.

Live, building, or classified until launch. You see the status in real time — wins and shutdowns both.

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04 / The playbook

Six rules. No exceptions.

The operating principles behind every build. They don't bend for a favorite idea.

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Customers before code

Every build starts with operator conversations, not a spec document.

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Speed is a feature

Thirty days from idea to something a real customer can pay for.

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Numbers decide

Revenue and retention make the call. Opinions and roadmaps don't.

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Kill fast, learn faster

A shutdown is data. The lesson ships with the next build.

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Automate before you hire

If a process repeats, we automate it before we add headcount.

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Build in public, ship in stealth

We share the scoreboard. Each product stays quiet until it's ready.

Twelve shots. We keep the winners.
You watch it happen in real time.

Build 01 is live. Build 02 is in progress. Ten more to go.

06 / Work with us

Have a problem worth building for, or want to partner on a build?

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