Run a company
born intelligent.
Not an idea. Not a deck. Venture 01 has its CEO. Venture 02 opens its founding-CEO mandate in September 2026 — a company that passed every kill gate we set for it, arriving with its agentic core already in production. It needs one thing: a leader.
Proof before you
bet your career.
A venture that passed its gates
Demand evidence from named buyers, a product in front of real users, unit economics against observed pricing — each a gate we were willing to fail it at.
A core already in production
Specific agents running specific operations before you arrive. We show you the live stack, the escalation rate, and what breaks — not a diagram.
A company that owns its business
At incorporation the product, brand, customers and data are assigned to the venture. The studio retains and licenses only the reusable core.
Ownership that tracks outcomes
A meaningful minority stake at incorporation, vesting against what the venture achieves rather than how long you stayed.
What ownership
do you get?
A meaningful minority of the venture at incorporation, fully diluted before external financing — and, more importantly, a company that actually owns its own business. A venture is wholly studio-owned while it is being incubated; at incorporation, when you are seated, the product, brand, customers and data are assigned to it. The studio retains and licenses only the reusable core.
Vesting tracks what the venture achieves rather than how long you remain in the seat, and there is defined protection if we stop the venture.
You get the complete terms in writing early — before you invest real time in this, not after. We publish them in full in September 2026, when the Venture 02 mandate opens, and the date is logged on /facts like every other commitment we make.
You will work directly with the founder, Fabien Lopez, who spent nine years running AI strategy and innovation at Deloitte Switzerland before founding the studio.
Operators,
not caretakers.
Check us before
we check you.
Every number we publish carries a named source and a date. When a claim fails that standard we withdraw it in public and log why. If you are going to bet a career on us, start with the evidence that makes us look worst.
The questions you
would rather not have to ask.
How much equity does a Living Scale Up CEO receive?
A meaningful minority at incorporation. We have decided the band and have not published it yet — deliberately. A CEO percentage quoted on its own cannot be interpreted: readers either mistake it for the studio's stake, which is the figure the industry usually reports, or subtract it and assume we hold everything else. Both are wrong. It publishes in September 2026 as a complete cap table — studio, CEO, option pool, reserved. Until then you get the whole thing in writing, early, rather than a partial page.
How does vesting work?
Against outcomes, not time served. A time-vested core with a twelve-month cliff, plus tranches releasing on gates defined in writing before you start — commercial launch, revenue, retention or growth, institutional financing — accelerating on Series A. Gates are set once and not moved afterwards.
What happens if you kill the venture I am leading?
You keep everything vested, with no clawback. You receive a cash bridge. You get first look at the next mandate before it opens externally. And we say publicly that the studio stopped it and why — you do not spend two years explaining a decision our gates made.
Who owns the IP?
It moves in two stages. During incubation, before the company exists as a separate entity, the studio owns 100% of it — that is what "Living Scale Up owns BuddyLeader's IP" means, and it is true of every venture before a CEO is seated. At incorporation the venture-specific IP is assigned to the new company: product and codebase, brand, domains, customer relationships, customer data, and any model trained on venture data. The studio retains the reusable operating core and licenses it on terms that survive our exit. The full lifecycle is on /facts.
Which venture is on offer?
Venture 01, BuddyLeader, has its CEO — Jonas Cosendai. Venture 02's founding-CEO mandate opens in September 2026. We move only when three things line up: the right operator, the right business opportunity, and the right technological maturity. If one is missing we delay the mandate rather than open it, and we will say so here.
Why join a studio instead of founding my own company?
If you can raise on your track record and want maximum ownership, you probably should found your own — we will not out-argue that. We compete on four other things: elapsed time to a company that already works, an operating core and Swiss compliance substrate that takes months to build alone, validation evidence gathered before you commit your career, and colleagues. The strongest objection to our model is peer-reviewed, and we publish it ourselves.
What happens after I apply?
Fabien reads it — there is no screening system — and replies within five working days, including the noes. Then mutual diligence, in which we expect to be examined as hard as we examine you: validation evidence, the live agent stack, the cap structure, the terms. If that process makes you less interested, it worked correctly.
Do I need to be in Switzerland?
Realistically, EU/EFTA. Swiss third-country work permits are capped at 8,500 for the entire economy and have been frozen for three consecutive years, subject to a labour-market test. We would rather tell you that now than in month four. The role is based on Lavaux with remote flexibility.
Bring one to life.
Send a track record, a point of view, and why this venture. Fabien reads every one personally and replies within five working days — including the noes.