Prove it before you go all in.
You're senior, well paid, and sitting on an idea you can't shake. The leap feels binary: quit the job and hope, or stay and wonder. There's a third way. Working with me one on one, the Sprint takes that idea and makes it clear, proven, and designed to travel, so you find out if it's real before you bet your career on it. You don't leap and hope. You prove it, then leap.
The idea you can't shake, in under a minute.
Why the smart move was never to quit and hope. The thinking behind the Sprint, start to finish.
You're probably stuck in one of three ways.
You won't quit a good job to gamble on something unproven, and you shouldn't. But that leaves the idea stuck in the same place it's been for months. Here's what's usually holding it there.
Most people don't fail because the idea was bad. They freeze on whether to build for home or the world, build before they have proof, and lock the product to one market without ever deciding to. None of that tells you whether the idea is worth leaving a salary for.
This isn't about launching in ten markets on day one. That's how startups die. It's about validating in one market while designing so the next one isn't a rebuild. So we go in order: define, validate, design to travel, and only then build, on a foundation that holds.
Stuck and unsure → clear and proven.
Take your idea from fuzzy to validated, with a prototype designed to travel from day zero. Enough to know if it's worth going all in on, before you do.
- A vague idea you can't quite explain
- Conviction, but no proof it's real
- Only ever pictured for home
- Nothing tangible to show
- A sharp idea you can explain in one line
- Real evidence from real people
- Designed to travel from day zero
- A prototype you can put in front of anyone
We do it in the right order.
Not build first. Build last, on a foundation that holds.
You leave with the tools, not just the ideas.
Every framework is yours to reuse on the next idea, and the one after that.
The sequence isn't a preference. It's what the evidence rewards.
Controlled trials of early founders find that those trained to test their idea before committing make sharper calls, kill weak ideas faster, and earn more than founders who build first. Studies of accelerators find the value isn't the money or the desk, it's structured method plus people holding you accountable. That's what this is. The global-design piece is the cheap insurance: the decisions that let a product cross borders cost almost nothing to make early and a fortune to retrofit later. Build last, on a foundation that holds.
Two ways in.
- Four weeks, one on one with Matt
- Get the idea sharp and prove it's real
- Every framework, worksheet & action log
- Direct access between sessions, your idea, one on one
- Eight weeks, the complete method start to finish
- Designed to travel from day zero
- A prototype you can put in front of anyone
- Warm intros where relevant
The decisions that make an idea global are cheap to get right now and brutal to retrofit later. A few thousand today, or a six-figure replatform later when a home-only build has to be torn apart to work anywhere else. Internationalisation is cheap to design in and brutal to bolt on. This is the cheapest these decisions will ever be.
Three things, unlocked on day zero.
You don't wait for week one to start. The moment you're in, these are in your hands, so you arrive sharp and already moving.
The real risk isn't the fee. It's another year of wondering.
Here's the honest cost of waiting. The idea doesn't go away, it just sits there, for another year. You get more senior, more comfortable, and the leap gets harder to make, not easier. Maybe someone else builds a version of it. Or you finally build it, but built for home only, and pay to retrofit later. None of that is the fee. So let's take the fee off the table entirely.
The 14-day, no-questions guarantee.
Start the work with me, do the first two weeks, and put the effort in. If it's not moving your idea forward, tell me within 14 days of your start date and I'll refund you in full. No forms, no friction, no hard feelings.
Money was never the real risk here. The real risk is spending another year not knowing. This is how you find out instead, and if it's not working for you, you're not out a cent. I carry the downside. All I ask is that you show up and do the work for two weeks before you decide.
The honest answers.
The work, one on one.
Here's what founders have said about working with me directly, and exactly what you'll walk away with. The 14-day guarantee below is how I put my money where my mouth is.
The feedback I received on my pitch was specific, honest, and immediately actionable. I left with a sharper message and a clearer sense of what I'm actually building.
With his business background, cultural understanding, and tech-savviness, he mentored me to establish my business in Japan and expand to Australia in less than a year.
I tried different coaches before but he is the best. I got a lot of insight every session. If you work with him, I promise you will develop some great outcomes.
Is this right for you?
I only take two founders per track, so I'm honest about who it's built for. Read both columns. If the left sounds like you, apply.
- You're still working full-time, curious, with an idea you haven't committed to yet. You don't need to quit to start. You need to know if it's worth committing to.
- You're early. Idea stage, or a little past it, with more questions than answers. That's the point.
- You want the idea sharp, proven, and designed to travel before you build the wrong thing.
- You think bigger than your home market, even if home is where you'll start. You just don't want to bake home-only assumptions in by accident.
- You'll do the work. Real conversations, a real prototype, one on one, with me holding you to it.
- You're already scaling, with a validated product and paying customers. You're past what this is built for, and that's a good problem to have.
- You want it done for you. This is us doing the work together, not an agency you hand it to.
- You're sure home is the whole plan, and happy there. Nothing wrong with that at all. This is for founders who've decided home isn't the ceiling.
- You want a guarantee of funding, or a finished business in a few weeks. What you'll leave with is a validated idea and a prototype you can put in front of anyone. A sharper, honest promise.
Build it properly, from day zero.
A short application keeps this to founders who are ready to do the work, so the time we spend is time well spent.
Two spots on Deep, two on Full. That's the ceiling. Working one on one means I can only take a handful at a time, so when the spots are gone, they're gone until they open again. This is how I'm running the Sprint for now, while my focus shifts to Japan.
Deep is $3,500 (or 2 × $1,750). Full is $6,000 (or 3 × $2,000). USD. Payment plans available, no surcharge.
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