Friends
Private boards
You convene the room. Same clock — 13 seats, about four weeks — but the roster is yours. Bring the people you’d actually take a company with.
You’re a director · Work on the business, not in it
Thirteen chairs. About four weeks. You vote, the playbook moves, and a secretary runs the room — calendar, listen, synthesize, guided chat or phone, next vote. You don’t operate. You direct.
This is the game. The room decides. The playbook writes the next chapter. Then the secretary makes the sitting actually happen — so thirteen people can direct a company without living inside the work.
AI is the synthesizer that makes the table work. It books the calendar, hears the room, folds the argument, then puts a motion back in front of you. You stay the director. It stays the staff that makes you dangerous.
You talk. You don’t fill a form. Meetings are recorded. The minutes keep three ledgers so nothing charming dies in the thread.
A season is short on purpose. Enough time to form a room, run the loop, and spin something up — not enough time to hide. Private boards lock the table with people you already trust. Open boards assemble strangers. Skill and temperament decide who sits.
Friends
You convene the room. Same clock — 13 seats, about four weeks — but the roster is yours. Bring the people you’d actually take a company with.
Strangers
Sit with people you don’t already share a company with. The mix is the sport. The work is still the season — not a pitch someone walked in with.
A chair can draft for skill mix the way a general manager builds a roster. The draft room arrives empty. No company idea on the table. You pay when you take the seat — not before.
Twelve boards on this strip — A through L — forming, spinning up, voting to keep, or already archived. Labels, not metrics. Anyone can watch the season move.
| Board | Form | Spin-up | Keep | Phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board A | Spin-up · mid-season | |||
| Board B | Keep vote scheduled | |||
| Board C | Form · assembling | |||
| Board D | Spin-up · late | |||
| Board E | Archived after form | |||
| Board F | Spin-up · early | |||
| Board G | Form · direction vote | |||
| Board H | Spin-up complete · parked | |||
| Board I | Form · first sitting | |||
| Board J | Spin-up · just opened | |||
| Board K | Keep · counsel review | |||
| Board L | Keep · formation path |
The fee is the chip you slide across the table. It gets you a chair, a season, and a weighted voice. Thirteen directors. One clock. The money is how you enter the game — not how you hide from it.
Private board or open board. Drafted or claimed. You pay when you take the seat.
Thirteen seats. A four-week season. Votes, playbooks, a secretary that makes the room run. If you want in — private board or open — write. There is no form.