Three phases, rarely in that order, and never open-ended: every phase closes with an explicit call to continue or stop. Here is the shape, the durations, and the gates.
Your strongest conviction about an emerging market, stress-tested against real signals: customer discovery, competitive landscape, internal asset audit, first-principles challenge.
The gate: Ends in a build/don't-build verdict backed by evidence — not a recommendation deck.
If the sprint confirms the conviction, Limineer operators embed inside your structure — your assets, your distribution, your institutional knowledge — at startup speed with external accountability.
The gate: Shared stakes, not rented frameworks. The venture takes shape with your team, not for it.
The venture gets its own team, its own revenue model, and its own reason to exist. We plan for the moment we step back from day one.
The gate: The goal is a company that stands alone — the best thing we can do is make ourselves unnecessary.
Commercial terms are shaped per engagement — scope, stakes, and structure differ too much between a vetting sprint and a spin-out for a rate card to be honest. What is fixed: every phase ends in a build/don't-build call, and stopping at a gate is a designed outcome, not a failure.
The first gate costs weeks, not quarters. That's the point.