Corporate Graduation® Foundations
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Graduate your corporate past. Build your founder future.

The AI Studio that takes you from Corporate to Founder.

Turn 20 years of career capital into a founder business you own. It's everything we teach clients in the Corporate Graduation Program, inside one AI Studio you can take on a walk.

  • 10founder assets
  • 12months of access
  • $800$1,600 founding rate
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What an AI Studio is

One simple screen. Everything you need underneath it.

What you seeWhat's underneath
  1. AI CoachingBuilt on the method behind 170+ moves from Corporate to Founder. It pushes back, holds the order, and remembers you.
  2. FrameworkSpace → Self → System. The order underneath all of it.
  3. ModulesThe whole framework, broken into modules, one step at a time. Watch at your desk, or listen on a walk.
  4. Production EnvironmentWhere your 10 founder assets get built, then put to work in your real life: your week, your home, your first buyers.

A $20 chatbot gives you a screen with nothing underneath it.

What it's built to change

Four things change, in this order

Real changes you can feel, inside and out. Not more documents.

SpaceYour week

60 hours, run by someone else's calendar

Built to get it down to 30, with hours set aside for the build

SpaceYour home

Home gets the tired version of you

A whole new energy your family can feel

SelfWho you are

Waiting for permission to move

You see yourself as a founder, and move first

SystemWhat you own

20 years of career capital on someone else's books

A founder business: your IP, a priced product, and buyers

Where you are right now

Corporate is all you've ever known. The builder pull won't let go.

You're in one of these three spots right now, and you may have zero entrepreneurial experience.

Still inside

The 7am call. The 9pm call. A vacation spent half on your laptop.

Recently out

Everyone says enjoy the time off. You're losing your mind.

Building, but stuck

You started something. It turned into consulting, or it never caught.

What you've already tried

You've looked at all of it. None of it felt right.

Shinier Cage
New RoleNew CompanyNew Industry

The same job with a new logo on it.

Spreadsheet Exit
FranchiseBoring BusinessReal Estate

Someone else's idea, on your capital.

Rented Expertise
CoachConsultantFractional

The old job, with a client for a boss.

Every one of them hands you a business before you've built the person who'll run it.

No chatbot, course, or YouTube channel comes close.

Pieced together

No order. No memory. Written for anyone.

Built for this one move
Your corporate past
AI StudioCorporate Graduation® Foundations
Your founder future

Ask ChatGPT how to leave corporate, and you get a list written for anyone. It doesn't know the order, and it forgets you by Thursday. A $20 chatbot gives you a screen with nothing underneath it.

Foundations is built on the framework 170+ people used to make this exact move, for someone 20 years in, with a salary, a family, and a calendar someone else runs.

You're a builder. But you've been building for someone else for 20 years.

What you become instead

Founder/ˈfaʊn·dər/ · noun

Someone who owns an idea, turns it into intellectual property (IP), and builds scalable products.

An idea you ownIPScalable products

A consultant rents time.A founder owns an idea.

A founder turns 20 years of calls, patterns, and relationships into IP, the asset that works without you. Then scalable products on top of it. That's a one-of-one business.

The Corporate Graduation® Framework

Space. Self. System.

Space builds the life around you. Self builds the founder. System builds the business. In that order, the way 170+ people have done it.

  1. 1Space

    Your time, energy, and attention

    A boss, a calendar, and a quarter have run your time for 20 years.

    You run it yourself, with real hours set aside for the build.

  2. 2Self

    Your beliefs, identity, and view of risk

    Beliefs that keep you choosing safe.

    You make the bold move, and keep moving after it.

  3. 3System

    What you own

    Career capital sitting on someone else's balance sheet.

    Your category, your method, your product, and the engine that sells it.

Why Space and Self come first

Most people come for System. Space and Self are what make it possible.

Space 50% Built to compress your corporate week by half.
Self You like who's in the mirror. The founder gets built before the business does.
How it works

Your week inside Foundations

Log in on your phone or your laptop. Take a module, talk it through with the AI, and walk away with a finished piece of your business.

  1. 1 Set up in minutes

    Connect your Claude account and tell the guide where you're starting.

  2. 2 Listen to the module

    Every module plays like a podcast. Take it on a walk.

  3. 3 Talk it through

    Speak your answers. The guide pushes back and remembers.

  4. 4 Walk away with an asset, and use it

    Each step ends in a finished piece of your business, plus what to do with it this week. The guide checks back.

AI-powered
See it work

AI coaching that knows this move, and knows you

It's built on the framework. It sets your next step, reads your work, pushes back when an answer is thin, and remembers all of it. Pick where you're starting to see a session.

Foundations
Space
    Space checkpoint
    Self
    Up next, after Space
    System
    Up next, after Self
    Your range of outcomes
    Space

    Self

    System

    Illustration of a session. The guide asks and remembers. The thinking stays yours.

    Remembers every sessionIncluding what you said you'd do.
    Holds the orderSpace first, then Self, then System.
    Pushes backA thin answer doesn't pass.
    ON A WALK BACK HOME AI-native, human-first

    Build on the move. Take the module on a walk, talk your answers through with the AI, and the work lands in your production environment, waiting at your desk when you get home.

    Motion, body, nature. You come out fluent in building with AI, wherever you are, and the thinking stays yours.

    Step by step

    10 founder assets, from your corporate past to your founder future

    Each one is a finished piece of your business that you put to work in your real life. The guide holds the next one until this one's solid.

    Hover or tap a phase to see its assets.

    1. 01
      Founder Operating BriefA week built around the build
      Space
    2. 02
      Founder Identity BriefBold moves, without waiting for permission
      Self
    3. 03
      Capital InventoryA clear count of what you're sitting on
      System
    4. 04
      Positioning BriefA category with your name on it
      System
    5. 05
      IP FrameworkA method people pay to learn
      System
    6. 06
      Product BlueprintA priced product, ready to sell
      System
    7. 07
      Authority PlanBuyers who find you
      System
    8. 08
      TrustWeb DesignRelationships that turn into buyers
      System
    9. 09
      Sales PlaybookConversations that end in a yes
      System
    10. 10
      Delivery EngineClients who get results and refer
      System
    Bonus · Block Removal

    You know the next move. Something stops you anyway.

    "What if I leave and it doesn't work?"Charge9
    "Who am I without the title?"Charge8
    "What will people think?"Charge7
    "What if the money runs out?"Charge9
    "I'm too far in to start over."Charge6
    "What if I'm not as good as I think?"Charge8

    Block Removal takes the charge out, one block at a time.

    Fears, stories, resistance, hesitation, and other people's opinions. Name one, find the belief under it, and take the brave action anyway.

    Name it→Rate the charge→Find the belief under it→Take one brave action→Rate it again
    Before8
    After3

    The fear doesn't have to hit zero. It has to get small enough that you move.

    The ones who stopped wondering

    170+ people have made this move with the framework

    ★★★★★
    "I never questioned the default path until I stepped into a room of people who had. That's when I stopped asking for permission and started making moves."
    Chris ThompsonImpact Investor · CEO, Career Free Agency
    ★★★★★
    "There are limitations within the corporate construct. And I would prefer to work without limitations."
    Kristin SargentCEO, Tech Startup Advisory Firm
    ★★★★★
    "After 30 years, I just resigned from corporate life. This gave me the perspective to treat it as a natural graduation."
    Frank MarinelloPresident, Real Estate Firm
    "Built and ran my own LLC, wrote and published a book." Jamie "For the first time in years, I feel like myself again." Steve D. "I've launched a business I'm deeply passionate about, built a pipeline." Brent "I feel less anxious, even while juggling more with my side business." Zeba K. "A level of clarity and calm I haven't felt in years, if ever." Trampas M.
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    Founding release week

    How the founding release works

    1. NowGet on the waitlistFirst name and email. No call, no payment. Founding bonuses come out over the week, and the waitlist hears first.
    2. Sun, Nov 22Waitlist linkFirst shot at 20 private sessions with a Corporate Graduation coach in December. When they're gone, they're gone.
    3. Mon, Nov 23Open to everyone$800 for 12 months. Renew at $800 as long as you never let it lapse.
    4. Mon, Nov 30Founding rate ends11:59pm ET. The founding rate is gone after that.

    More founding bonuses unlock through the week. The waitlist sees each one first.

    Product comparison

    Two ways to make the move

    Foundations runs on your timeline. You get the whole AI Studio and decide how far you want to take it. The Program is for people already committed to the outcome: human-guided, accelerated, with a team that reads your real work, peers making the same move, and two retreats a year.

    Corporate Graduation® Foundations$800 · on your own, at your own paceCorporate Graduation® ProgramHuman-guided, accelerated
    Framework & modules
    All of Space, Self, and System✓✓
    Every module, to watch or listen✓✓
    All 10 founder assets✓✓
    AI coaching
    AI coaching that remembers your work✓Full Founder Brain, trained on you
    People
    Weekly live sessions–✓
    Weekly accountability system–✓
    Monthly 1:1 time on your situation–✓
    A team that marks up your real work–✓
    Mentors, peers, and co-working–✓
    2 in-person retreats a year–Ticket covered
    Terms
    PaceYour own timelineHuman-guided, accelerated
    How you get inLimited releaseApplication + invitation

    Have questions on what to do?

    Who it's built for

    It's for you if

    • You want to build, not consult
    • You want to explore before going all in
    • You'll start this week and keep going on your own

    It isn't for you if

    • You want it done for you
    • You want a consulting playbook
    • You need a room holding you to it
    The founding release

    $800 now, for the founding release.

    Everything we teach clients in the Program, in one AI Studio. 12 months of access, every upgrade while you're active, and a hand in shaping it. Renew at $800 for as long as you never let it lapse.

    $1,600$800for 12 months
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    • Every module, watch or listen
    • All 10 founder assets
    • Every upgrade while you're active
    Your window · November
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    The first 20 buyers get 30 minutes 1:1 with a Corporate Graduation coach. The waitlist gets first shot.

    Foundations or the Program? See how they differ

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    The founding rate runs Monday, Nov 23 through Monday, Nov 30 at 11:59pm ET. All sales are final.

    Questions

    Who is Foundations for?

    Directors, VPs, and executives with 15 to 25 years of career capital who want to build something of their own. You do the work on your own, at your own pace, with the AI Studio holding the order.

    Who isn't it for?

    Anyone who wants it done for them, wants a consulting playbook, or needs a live room holding them to it. If you want people and accountability, the Program is built for that.

    What if I'm not sure I want to be a founder yet?

    Then Foundations is a good place to start. Space comes first, so you get your time back whether or not you leave, and you explore the founder path in a controlled, accessible way. When you're ready to go all in, the Program is the fastest path.

    How is this different from the Program?

    The framework is the same. The Program adds people: weekly live sessions, an accountability system, 1:1 time, a team that marks up your work, mentors and peers, and 2 retreats a year.

    Does Space apply if I'm not in a corporate job?

    Yes. Space is about running your own time, energy, and attention as a founder. Most people have never had to, wherever they're starting.

    How long does it take?

    It's self-paced, with 12 months of access. Go in order, and don't rush Space. Skipping it is why most attempts stall.

    Do I need to be technical?

    No. It runs in your browser and on your phone, and you can build by voice on a walk. If you can send a text message, you can use it.

    What do I need?

    A paid Claude account. The guide runs on it, so you control your own usage. Setup is the first thing it walks you through.

    Can I skip ahead?

    You can. The guide will coach you hard on why Space comes first, and it won't lock you out. Skipping Space is why most attempts stall.

    Will the guide do the work for me?

    No. It asks, pushes back, and makes you go deeper. The thinking has to be yours, or the work won't hold.

    Who sees what I write?

    We see how far along you are, so we can fix and improve the product. We also keep a masked copy of what you write, with anything that identifies you stripped out, to make the guide better for everyone. The full terms are in the member agreement you accept at checkout.

    How is this different from ChatGPT or Claude?

    A $20 chatbot gives you a screen with nothing underneath it. On its own, it answers whatever you ask, for anyone. The guide runs on your Claude account and adds one framework for one move. It holds the order, remembers your work, and won't let a thin answer pass.

    When does the founding release close?

    Monday, Nov 30 at 11:59pm ET. After that, the founding rate is gone.

    What happens after 12 months?

    Your access ends unless you renew. Founding members renew at $800, half the standard price, for as long as they renew without a gap. Let it lapse, and the founding rate is gone.

    Do I get updates?

    Yes. Every upgrade to the AI Studio and the modules, as it ships, for as long as your access is active.

    Do I keep what I build?

    Yes. Your work backs up to your own Google Drive or GitHub, and it's yours to keep after your access ends.

    Can I share my access?

    No. One person, one email.

    Can I get a refund?

    No. All sales are final, so take the time you need before you buy. If you have a question first, ask us on WhatsApp.

    Why a founding release?

    Because something you can buy any time is something you never start. The founding group gets the founding price, and when this release closes, it's gone.

    Matt Doan
    Built by

    Matt Doan

    I spent 15 years in management consulting, including at BCG, before building Corporate Graduation®. Since then, 170+ Directors, VPs, & Executives have made the move from Corporate to Founder with this framework.

    Foundations puts that framework in your hands, inside an AI Studio built on it.

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