Our vision is to increase startup teams’ cohesion and interaction - psychological safety: Empowering teams to self-manage and monitor their spats, disputes & founder conflict, in real-time

1. By developing a toolkit to self-manage our
teams’ spats, disputes, and founder conflict
des@spatz.ai | spatz.ai | Desmond Sherlock
OUR MISSION:
Is to create an AI that predicts and increases
the probability of a startup team’s success.

2. OUR
VISION
To increase startup teams’ cohesion and
interaction - psychological safety:
Empowering teams to self-manage
and monitor their spats, disputes
& founder conflict, in real-time.
“65% of startup teams
fail due to founder conflict”
Prof. Noam Wasserman
THE FOUNDER’S DILEMMAS

3. POOR DECISION-MAKING SKILLS
When founders disagree we can get
defensive and misconduct will occur on
occassion. With little or no recourse to
manage our spats, disputes and founder
conflict, poor decision-making is inevitable,
we feel, causing most startups to fail.
NINE OUT OF TEN
funded startups are failing!
THE
PROBLEM
F#*k You

4. To use the SPATZ Code of Misconduct app to object to misconduct
during a disagreement. And if challenged, we use the SpatzAI & Founder
Network to independently review any unresolved founder conflict.
OUR PROPOSAL

5. By using the Spatz app we can build the data
from our spats, to help investors predict the
probable success of each team.
Monitor Ability to be Accountable
SPATZ AI & ML DATA
• Of 124 Spats, 55 (44%) will go to a Dispute
• Of 55 Disputes, 10 (8%) will go to a Conflict & reviewed by SpatzAI & network
• Of 10 Conflicts, 3 (2.4%) will go to a vote by Spatz AI + network
• Of 3 votes taken, 1 person (.8%) will resign or be dismissed
Initial Predictive Spatz Data:

6. 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+ 60,000+ 250,000+
STARTUP ACCELERATORS STARTUPS FOUNDER TEAM MEMBERS

7. COMPETITION
Kim Scott Amy Edmondson Tim Clark
App, Network & AI Tech Tools ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
Code of Misconduct ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Independent peer review network ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Self-management focus ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Fucus on startup founders ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Monitor spats, disputes & conflicts data ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Most authors of organization psychology offer
leadership workshops and internships for their programs
but do not self-managed systems, data driven applications.

8. 1. DESMOND SHERLOCK
CEO
Co-founder & CEO at TRIPCOVER
Author of Rethink Perfect
Industrial Designer
We 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

9. BATCH TEAMS PLAN
TO BE COMPLETED BY THE END
OF THE PROGRAM
FIND CO-FOUNDERS
- Psychology Research Assistant
- AI & ML Data Scientist
✓
FIND TEST SUBJECTS & TEST
10 accelerators
30 test startups
30 control startups
✓
FORM COMPANY
Setup up not for profit organization
Business plan completed
✓
CREATE TECH
Spatz Code of Misconduct app
Spatz Peer Review Network setup
Spatz AI setup
✓
DATA
Data to be ready to be crunched
AI and ML setup
✓
We will contact some 50 high-profile startup
accelerators to encourage 10 of them to use the
Spatz app as part of our spats data collection research
program. Sharing the data with the accelerators, and
acting as a contracted researcher, on a startup team’s
probable success.
ACCELERATOR RESEARCH

10. Desmond Sherlock
Spatz.ai
des@spatz.ai
Toolkit to self-manage our team spats,
disputes, and founder conflict
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