From idea to a funded company, before you have a team.
Every deliverable a founder must produce now has an AI employee and a job behind it: validation, customer discovery, MVP testing, company formation, the cap table, the advisory board, and the pitch. You provide the vision; FRAIM runs the work.
The hardest part is not the idea. It is everything after it.
Solo and first-time founders stall on the dozens of deliverables between an idea and a fundable company. Most have never built a cap table, run customer discovery, or pitched an investor.
Too many firsts
Validation, incorporation, equity, IP, hiring, and fundraising are each first-time tasks with real downside if done wrong.
No team
No co-founder, no analyst, no counsel. You decide what to do next with no one to delegate to.
Easy to build the wrong thing
Without disciplined discovery and validation, months go into building something no one will buy.
An employee for every step, and the artifact to show for it.
Select a step to see the kind of deliverable FRAIM produces. Each one is a reviewable artifact backed by the evidence behind it.
Pre-commit a kill-or-confirm signal and test with real customers before committing engineering time. The plan fixes the decision rule in advance, so the result is honest either way.
| Signal | Target to confirm | Observed | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paid pre-commitments | ≥ 4 of 12 | 6 of 12 | Confirm |
| Slots recovered / week | ≥ 8 | 11 | Confirm |
| Manager weekly active use | ≥ 60% | 42% | Below line |
Decision: build, with onboarding reworked to close the activation gap before scaling.
Entity, EIN, cap table, founder and equity agreements, and IP assignment, clean and defensible before you raise. Here is the cap table the job produces, fully diluted with the new round modeled.
| Holder | Shares | Fully diluted |
|---|---|---|
| Founder A (CEO) | 4,200,000 | 42.0% |
| Founder B (CTO) | 2,800,000 | 28.0% |
| Option pool (reserved) | 1,500,000 | 15.0% |
| Pre-seed SAFE (converted) | 1,500,000 | 15.0% |
| Total | 10,000,000 | 100.0% |
4-year vesting with a 1-year cliff on both founders; pool sized for the next two key hires.
Develop an advisory board from your real network, interview candidates as they respond, and select deliberately. The shortlist ranks candidates against the gaps in your team.
| Candidate | Fills gap | Fit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Okafor, ex-VP Clinical Ops | Healthcare distribution | 9.1 | Offer |
| L. Tan, seed investor | Fundraising network | 8.4 | Offer |
| M. Reyes, RevOps leader | Pricing and GTM | 7.8 | Interview |
| D. Vance, generalist | No clear gap | 5.2 | Pass |
Scored on gap fit, relevant network, and availability; advisors mapped to a 0.25 to 0.5% equity grant on standard terms.
A narrative, a deck, and a timed delivery rehearsal so the pitch is both well written and well delivered. Here is the traction slide, the one investors read first.
Delivery rehearsed on the clock at 4:52 against a 5:00 limit, with filler-word and pacing notes returned to the founder.
The founder path, end to end.
Each step is a FRAIM job. FRAIM gates the next step on the evidence from the last.
Crystallize the problem
A testable problem and a narrow market.
Validate the idea
Should we build this, and for whom?
Customer discovery
Find prospects, run interviews, clear the first gate.
Validate the MVP
A kill-or-confirm signal before building.
Plan and price
A business plan and a pricing model.
Form the company
Entity, cap table, founder agreements, IP assignment.
Team and advisory board
Develop, interview, and select advisors.
Pitch and fundraise
Narrative, deck, and a timed delivery rehearsal.
What you walk away with.
Start the founder journey.
Bring the vision. FRAIM runs the work, from validation to the pitch.
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