# README · Sprints — by Seed to Fruit

SPRINTS_

an experiment in assembling companies, by Seed to Fruit

First cohort opening soon. Invite-only.
phase : 01 / sprints
duration : 2 weeks
group : 8–12
cohort : 01
status : open
// thesis

Sprints brings together 8–12 people who have spent years inside a problem: engineers, designers, and ex-founders. For two weeks of intensive work. By the end, everyone in the room owns a piece of what gets built.

Office space

# 01 · Cohort 01 // cohort_01.toml

[teaching_kids_a_second_language]

// Can we build tools that help children acquire a second language the way they learned their first — through immersion, repetition, and play?

format = "Remote, full-time"
duration = "2 weeks"
group_size = "8–12 people"
sprint = "first_sprint"

# COHORT_01 · Meet your host

for two weeks, you'll build with:

Ahmed Mojtaba.

2x founder. Built Doctorbase, Earbit. Faculty at Conestoga, and program partner at DMZ.

Host portrait

# 02 · Equity for all // cap_table.json

Everyone who shows up gets a piece.

When a company forms out of a Sprint, the cap table is split four ways. The 2–3 founders who continue own the majority. The rest is held for the people and partners who made the company possible.

{
"founders": 0.85, // the 2–3 who continue
"seed_to_fruit": 0.07,
"host": 0.03,
"the_room": 0.05 // everyone who showed up
}
// activation

Equity only activates if a company forms. If no team continues, the whole thing dissolves and nobody gets anything. But if 2–3 people say "we're doing this," everyone who was in that room owns a piece.

// network

The people who don't continue become the company's most valuable asset: a small, dense network of operators and builders who already know the problem cold.

# 03 · Why Sprints

commit 01
99% of startups will fail.

Everyone says that most startups fail, and that's just the startup math. But is it? Or is it the predictable result of a specific way of assembling companies that almost nobody questions? We built Sprints to test that. It's an experiment in assembling companies.

commit 02
Right problem, right people, right time.

Almost everything else is secondary. Most accelerators will waste your time on: workshops, panels, pitch nights, and events. But the real work is in choosing the right problem, finding the right people, at the right time, and creating the conditions where a real company can emerge.

# 04 · How it works // build_company.sh

> 01
A problem is chosen.

Seed to Fruit starts by picking something that is worth working on: an industry, a problem, or an idea. Something like "How homes get built", or "Teaching kids a second language". Real, specific, hard.

> 02
A room is assembled.

We try to find 8 to 12 people who are the most relevant to the problem, people who know the industry in and out, engineers who've been hacking on it, founders who tried and failed, designers who've been thinking about it for years.

> 03
Two weeks, remote.

Conditions designed and engineered for something to emerge. The Host anchors judgment. Everyone works on the problem together, no pitches, no demo days, just the work.

> 04
A founding team is selected.

At the end, Seed to Fruit and the Host invite 3–5 of the strongest to form a company. Everyone else becomes a shareholder and part of the network around it.

exit code 0 — founding team identified
// note

Sprints is Phase 1. After the two weeks, the founding team that emerges goes into a 3-month residency to build the company. We'll talk about that later. For now, it's just sprints.