Find the wedge.
Build the proof.
Share the upside.
First Wedge turns real problems into narrow wedges, ships prototypes, runs pilots, captures evidence, and decides — scale, spin out, or stop. One platform. Three connected arms.
Forms and ships AI-native companies. From wedge to spinout with capital, operators, and a working thesis on day one.
Build with StudioRuns internal AI pilots for teams inside real companies. Private workspace, evidence-first, scale or spinout at the end.
Bring us a problemThe network of builders, operators, designers, domain experts, local partners, legal, finance and fundraising who staff every wedge.
Join the GuildMost networks promise upside. We keep the ledger that makes it settleable.
Contribution is recorded, reviewed, and versioned as work happens — so when a wedge becomes a company, the question of who built it is already answered in writing.
Work is recorded as it happens
Every contribution — engineering, domain insight, customer access, GTM — is logged against a project, reviewed by an operator, and approved or rejected. Nothing is reconstructed from memory at the end.
Evidence decides, not enthusiasm
Interviews, prototype usage, pilot metrics, failed assumptions and risk findings are captured against the wedge they test, and reviewed together before the decision is signed.
Participation is versioned and human-approved
Ownership participation records are drafted from the approved contribution ledger, versioned, and signed off by a human. No automatic allocation. These are operating records, not legal instruments.
Every project ends in a named decision
Scale, spin out, continue, pause, or kill — recorded with the evidence reviewed, the owner, and the rationale. A wedge that fails still produces a playbook.
Ownership participation records are operating records that support later legal and economic agreements. They are not themselves legally binding ownership agreements.
The method runs on software we own.
Every wedge, project, sprint, pilot, evidence item, contribution and decision lives in one system with row-level access control and an immutable audit log. Enterprise data is private by default. Investors and evaluators receive scoped, revocable access to individual projects — never the portfolio.
The result is that formation gets cheaper each time we run it. The tenth wedge inherits the playbooks, the contributor network, and the operating record of the first nine.
- Step 01Framing
- Step 02Sprint
- Step 03Pilot
- Step 04Signal
- Step 05Decision
- Step 06Scale · Spinout · Stop
Build a company with us
Bring a narrow wedge, a real problem, or a working prototype.
Apply to StudioRun an internal AI pilot
Six weeks. Named workflow. Kill criteria and success metric agreed up front.
Start a pilotContribute to a wedge
Builders, operators, domain experts, local partners, GTM, legal, finance.
Join the Guild