Our vision is to create an AI toolkit that moderates and monitors a startup team’s spats, disputes and founder conflict in real-time. Helping startup accelerators and investors predict, and increase the probability of a startup team’s success.

1. “65% of startup teams
fail due to
founder conflict”
Harvard Professor, Noam Wasserman
THE FOUNDER’S DILEMMAS
If true, then we think startup accelerators and investors
should be acting now to reduce this…

2. OUR MISSION
Is to reduce founder conflict, and
increase startup teams’ cohesion
and decision-making skills
ie. psychological safety.
To create an AI toolkit that moderates and
monitors a team’s spats, disputes and
founder conflict in real-time. Helping
startup accelerators and investors
predict, and increase the probability
of a startup team’s success.
OUR VISION

3. des@spatz.ai | spatz.ai | Desmond Sherlock
Welcome to…

4. POOR DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
When founders disagree we can get defensive
of our precious ideas, and poor behavior will
occur, on occasion. We think that with little or
no recourse to manage our spats, disputes
and founder conflict poor decision-making is
inevitable, causing most startups to fail.
NINE OUT OF TEN
startups are failing!
THE
PROBLEM
F#*k You

5. During a team’s decision-making debates, we agree to use the SPATZ Code of
Misconduct app to 1. Caution any poor behavior, in real-time. Such behavior as the
use of overly dogmatic language or getting personal. And if acknowledged we move
on, but if the caution/spat is challenged, then it gets escalated to eventually be
independently reviewed by the Spatz AI & Startup Network. (Three strikes….)
OUR PROPOSAL

6. By using the Spatz app we can build
the data from our spats, disputes or
founder conflicts to help investors
predict and increase the probability
of a team’s success.
MONITOR TEAMS’ ACCOUNTABILITY
SPATZ AI & ML DATA
• Of 124 Spats, 55 (44%) will go on to a Dispute
• Of 55 Disputes, 10 (8%) will go on to a Conflict,
to be reviewed by SpatzAI & peer review network
• Of 10 Conflicts, 3 (2.4%) will go on to a vote by
Spatz AI + network
• Of 3 votes taken, 1 person (.8%) will resign or be dismissed
INITIAL PREDICTIVE SPATZ DATA

7. Our initial focus is on startup accelerators and incubators,
supplying their batch of startup teams with the toolkit:
• Use the opportunity to start to gain data from the teams
• And generally study the toolkits effects and usage
OUR MARKET
7000+ 100,000+ 300,000+
STARTUP ACCELERATORS STARTUPS TEAMS FOUNDER TEAM MEMBERS

8. FREE FOR FIRST BATCH
Any startup accelerator can use for free on
their first batch. Then we charge as a SaaS fee
per team to the accelerators, incubators, and
to any investors interested in the data.
BUSINESS MODEL
$100/team/program
SaaS fee per team per batch
Accelerators/Incubators
$210,000 Revenue
1st Year
100 Accelerators
2,100 Teams

9. 1. DESMOND SHERLOCK
Co-founder of TRIPCOVER
and Pablow Inc.
Author of Rethink Perfect
Industrial Designer
We will have 3 founders of SpatzAI
1. Des Sherlock has been working on the workplace
design for some 17 years
2. Our psychology research assistant (need to find)
3. Our AI and ML Data Scientist (need to find)
THE TEAM
Psychology Research Assistant AI & ML Data Scientist
2. Need to Find 3. Need to Find

10. Contact: Desmond Sherlock
Website: Spatz.ai
Email: des@spatz.ai
Blog: Object123.com
Toolkit to self-manage & monitor team
spats, disputes, and founder conflict
Thanks for watching
our presentation.