A 30-day live-in founder residency forty minutes from the world’s factories. Company building, China sourcing mastery, and a full daily longevity protocol — in one building, with the same forty people, for a month.
The last decade of building happened on a laptop. The next one happens on a factory floor. Hardware, consumer products, wearables, robotics, diagnostics — the interesting companies now have a bill of materials, and a bill of materials means somebody has to go and stand in the room where it gets made.
Almost all of those rooms are within a two-hour drive of one city. Shenzhen makes the majority of the world’s consumer drones. Huaqiangbei will sell you any component on earth in an afternoon. The tooling shops, the injection moulders, the PCB houses, the assembly lines — they are dense, they are fast, and they are cheaper to visit than to email.
So we put founders inside it. Thirty days, one building, forty people. Mornings are for deep work. Afternoons are for learning how manufacturing actually works, then going and doing it. Evenings are for the people you’ll still be building with in five years.
And because thirty days of hard building destroys most people, we built the recovery in rather than bolting it on. Cold plunge, sauna, gym, programmed training, real food, tracked sleep. Not a perk. The reason the work holds up.
We credit the live-in founder community model to the people who proved it works. What we’re adding is a location with a supply chain attached — and a body that survives the sprint.
Silent deep-work blocks. Founder pods of five. Weekly demo nights. Capital and customers who come to the room instead of the other way round.
The Manufacturing Academy. 1688 vs Alibaba, OEM/ODM, MOQs, tooling, NNN, AQL, freight, customs — taught in the morning, practised on a factory floor by Thursday.
Cold, heat, light, load, sleep, food, measurement. Daily. A biohacker kit in every room as standard, not as an upgrade you pay for.
Huaqiangbei. The Canton Fair. Guangzhou. Hong Kong in fourteen minutes. Mountains, temples, and the fastest-moving place on earth.
Indicative. Cohort schedules are published before each intake.
One number, paid once, covering the room, the food, the training and the programme. No upsell tiers, no à la carte wellness, no surprise line items on the way out.
Engineered, not expensive. The building is good because it works, not because it’s luxurious. Every pound goes into the things you touch every day — the plunge, the kitchen, the desk, the people in the room.
Pilot pricing is being validated against real quotes before it is confirmed. We publish what we get wrong.
Strategy, market research, brand system, project plan and legal architecture — twenty-seven documents, shared by name with a short list of people. If you have an access code, use it. If you should have one, ask.