Licensing & inquiry

The work is licensed. Not sold.

Foundership operates on a trust contract, not a transaction. The artifacts, the engagement formats, and the Institute's published canon are made available to operators and partner organizations through licensing — single artifacts, cohort orders, partner-branded co-editions, and Killhouse engagements.

Inquiry begins a conversation · not a transaction
Four paths

Four ways the work moves from us to you.

Path 01

Single artifact.

For the individual operator.
A founder, a leader, an operator picking up one of the practitioner instruments for their own work. The framework's most direct entry point.
Includes
  • Field Guide — printed monograph, v0.3
  • Deck — 52 cards in tuck case
  • Journal — 52-week sewn-bound
  • The 2025 book — Volume I of the canon
Retail-direct pricing through the Institute. Volume discount at three or more.
Path 02

Cohort order.

For the leadership team or peer group.
A leadership team, peer cohort, advisor practice, or operator network moving through the work together. Bulk artifact orders priced as a continuing relationship.
Includes
  • Bundled artifact orders, 5+ units
  • Optional facilitator briefing — 90 min, virtual
  • Direct-from-Institute shipping
  • Continuity terms for repeat cohorts
Cohort pricing scales with volume. Quote returned within 48 hours of inquiry.
Path 03

Partner-branded co-edition.

For the accredited distribution channel.
Co-branded edition of one or more artifacts, custom-imprinted for a partner organization's cohort, course, or community. Royalty-bearing license against an annual minimum.
Includes
  • Custom imprint + co-branded foreword
  • Print-and-fulfillment partnership
  • Royalty schedule against minimum guarantee
  • Annual renewal under trust-contract terms
Term sheet returned within five business days of inquiry. Active conversations: Ramsey · EntreLeadership · BRCC.
Path 04

Killhouse engagement.

For the founder-led leadership team.
Two-day on-site facilitated engagement. Five to twelve leaders. Matt Graham as sole facilitator. Five artifacts produced; ninety-day catalog returned.
Includes
  • Pre-work — Field Guide + Deck pulls
  • Two-day on-site engagement
  • Five artifacts walked out of the room
  • 30-day check-in + 90-day rendering
Engagement-scaled pricing against the $40K / day operator-training benchmark. Inquiry begins the conversation.
The process

Inquiry to engagement. Four moves.

The Institute does not sell from a public catalog with a checkout button. The work is too load-bearing for transactional procurement. Every engagement begins with a conversation — sized to the operator, the team, or the partner organization in front of us.

Step · 01

Inquiry

You send a note to the relevant Institute address. Name the path you're inquiring about and the scope of the work in front of you. Three sentences is enough.

Step · 02

Conversation

We schedule a thirty-minute call. The conversation is diagnostic — what you're trying to protect, what you've been carrying, what an engagement would actually need to do.

Step · 03

Terms

If the engagement fits, the Institute returns a proposal — scope, dates, terms, deliverables, trust-contract language. Plain English. No surprises.

Step · 04

The work

The engagement begins. The Institute holds the architecture; you do the work; the artifacts walk home with you. The trust contract continues past the close of the room.

Partners

Who the Institute works with. Selected by trust capital.

The Institute selects partner relationships the way the framework selects load-bearing carriers — by the trust contract that has already been earned in adjacent work. Not by reach. Not by audience size. By the partner organization's record of doing the work it says it does.

Active · operator cohort
Black Rifle Coffee Company

Veteran-entrepreneur cohort, BRCC seminar circuit, and the SLC consultation kickoff scheduled for late summer 2026. The operator-cohort partner. Killhouse and Field Guide deployment underway.

Cultivating · small-business cohort
Ramsey Solutions / EntreLeadership

The small-business founder cohort. Long-arc research partnership in scope through 2027 as the doctoral empirical work develops. Partner-branded co-edition conversations beginning.

Selective · operator-grade
Accredited channels by inquiry

Additional partner relationships entered selectively. The Institute does not accept distribution offers on reach alone; trust capital is the asset. Inquiry welcome from organizations with operator-grade audiences.

Academic · research
University partnerships

York St John University (MBA dissertation conferral, November 2026), University of Gloucestershire (PhD, commencing January 2027), Skagit Valley College (adjunct instruction, 2026 forward). The academic record of the framework.

Begin the conversation

Reach the Institute.

Inquiry

Send a note. Three sentences is enough.

Name the path you're inquiring about, the scope of the work, and a date you'd like a thirty-minute call. We'll return a meeting time within two business days.

The work is patient. Reach the Institute when you're ready.

Foundership has no quarterly close, no end-of-fiscal incentive structure, and no funnel-driven follow-up. Inquiry opens the relationship; the engagement closes when the work is done.