Desired Future State
Carry forward the destination you are building toward. Change it only when the goal itself changes.
- 1-year DFS
- End-of-Fellowship DFS
- Metric That Matters and target
Weekly pre-work
Prepare the signal, not a status report.
Use what you already know. Update only what changed. Target 5 to 8 minutes before the meeting.
Current Reality
Update the freshest facts, actuals, dates, and sources. Include the stories the room needs to understand what changed.
Lead with facts. Label estimates. Leave missing data blank.
Accounting and response
Represent last week with the facts, then name what you learned and what you will do differently.
Last week, we said we would ____________________. The facts are ____________________.
Multiple facts and learnings are welcome.
Issue list
List the issues or questions most holding you back from your Fellowship goals. Bring more than one when useful.
A 10/10 UBM would leave us with ____________________.
Issue framing
Name the underlying question, why it matters now, the Fellowship goal it blocks, and a useful outcome.
Frame the question under the issue, not only the symptom.
Support needed
Give the room only the context it needs. Surface facts, unknowns, assumptions, tradeoffs, or a real co-founder difference.
- Think with me
- Challenge me
- Help me move
Founder Pulse
Use Rose, Bud, and Thorn to share what is working, what is emerging, and what is weighing on you. Add the candor cue only when it is useful. You can pass or ask to discuss something privately.
- Rose: what is working or giving you energy.
- Bud: what is emerging or you are looking forward to.
- Thorn: what is frustrating, blocked, or weighing on you.
- Candor cue: the hard thing you may be avoiding.