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Venture design
Business model, agentic architecture and go-to-market written as one system — the venture's DNA.
The Studio
A company-building machine that is itself alive.
Living Scale Up designs AI-native companies, proves them industrially, then pairs them with elite CEOs and scales them. One engine. Same rails. Every venture.
The venture engine
Design. Prove. Launch. Scale.
Every venture runs the same engine. Most don't survive it — that's the point.
STAGE 01
Design
Venture DNA is written before a line of product exists — business model, agentic architecture, go-to-market. The problem is tested against the market and against our own skepticism, and the design is rewritten until it holds. The cheapest place to find the flaw is on paper.
TESTED ON PAPER FIRST
OUTPUT: VENTURE DNA
COST OF A REWRITE: A DOCUMENT
OUTPUT: VENTURE DNA
COST OF A REWRITE: A DOCUMENT
STAGE 02
Prove
Each design is built as a low-cost prototype and tested against a synthetic cohort — thousands of personas modelled on the real market — before the first real customer ever sees it. The cohort doesn't spare feelings. Neither do we.
SYNTHETIC-COHORT VALIDATION
VERDICT: REWORK OR LAUNCH
BEFORE ANY GTM SPEND
VERDICT: REWORK OR LAUNCH
BEFORE ANY GTM SPEND
STAGE 03
Launch
The company is born running. Shared rails — agents, payments, security, EU AI Act compliance — are inherited, not rebuilt from scratch. Day one, the venture has an operating core that most startups take years to assemble.
BORN OPERATIONAL
AGENTS · PAYMENTS · SECURITY
EU AI ACT ALIGNED
AGENTS · PAYMENTS · SECURITY
EU AI ACT ALIGNED
STAGE 04
Scale
An elite CEO takes command with real ownership. Cap tables are engineered for the Series A test, with a meaningful founder stake protected from day zero. Then the venture compounds.
FOUNDER-FIRST OWNERSHIP
ENGINEERED FOR SERIES A
BUILT TO COMPOUND
ENGINEERED FOR SERIES A
BUILT TO COMPOUND
The model
Six pillars, one studio.
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Proof before build
Ventures are tested against modelled customer cohorts to destruction before real customers do.
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Shared rails
Agents, payments, security and EU AI Act compliance — built once, inherited by every venture.
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CEO pairing
Elite operators take command of proven ventures — with real equity and a company already alive.
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Capital architecture
Cap tables engineered for Series A from day zero. Founders keep a meaningful stake. Investors get a clean machine.
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Swiss sovereignty
Engineered in the Alpine cluster with sovereign compute — compliance mastery as a feature, not a tax.
Radical candor
We don’t screen ideas.
We select problems.
Most studios show you their wins. We show you the discipline — and ours sits upstream of any funnel. We do not screen and select ideas. We select real-life problems that AI-native capability can now solve, and we grow a company to address each one. Fewer ventures, chosen harder, each traceable to a problem someone actually has.
VENTURE LABSTANDARD
DESIGNPROBLEM-LED
VALIDATIONSYNTHETIC COHORT
RAILSSHARED · INHERITED
LIVE IN PILOT1 · BUDDYLEADER
STATUS: ALIVE ▊