We believe that most team conflict start out as a minor spat. With little or no in-house procedure to resolve minor infractions in organizations, most team members simply choose to try ignore minor infractions & let them go. We want to fix this.

1. des@spatz.ai | spatz.ai | Desmond Sherlock
A startup toolkit to fix founder conflict

2. “65% of startup teams
fail due to founder &
team conflict”
Harvard Professor, Noam Wasserman
THE FOUNDER’S DILEMMAS
OUR VISION
To radically increase the decision-making skills of startup teams,
and reduce the appalling failure rate.

3. OUR MISSION
Create a toolkit that supports startups
to resolve founder-team conflict, in
real-time. Then collating the data to
enable investors to predict future
team successes.
“Build a culture of stopping to fix problems
to get the quality right the first time.“
The fifth principle of the Toyota Way

4. NINE OUT OF TEN
startups are failing!
THE
PROBLEM
Conflict is not easy to
resolve & without an
agreement on how to, it’s
best to avoid it.
This avoidance results in
compromise, poor
decision-making, & the
failure of the startup.
NO EXPLICIT
AGREEMENT
CONFLICT
AVOIDANCE
Mistreatment and
conflict in startup teams
is inevitable. And So is
conflict avoidance.
FOUNDER
CONFLICT
1 2 3

5. THE SPATZAI AGREEMENT
When a team member speaks up with something novel, and encounters
friction, she can verbally caution the offender for any unfair pushback.
If the caution is acknowledged they move on with the discussion.. or
If the caution is challenged or ignored, she
can later use the SpatzAI 3-Step App, to
document & resolve their Spat or Dispute.
Any unresolved Conflict is posted
automatically on SpatzAI Founder
Network to be reviewed by our peers.
or or and
post

6. Using the Spatz app we can build the data from the RESOLVED and UNRESOLVED results of team
spats, disputes, and conflicts. The SpatzAI can machine learn from these data to help accelerators
and investors predict the probability of a team’s success.
COLLATING TEAM RESOLVED & UNRESOLVED STATUS
SPATZ AI & ML DATA
124 TOTAL INITIAL SPATS - EXAMPLE ONLY
1. SPATS 124 75 Resolved (60.5%)
2. DISPUTES 49 35 Resolved (28.2%)
3. CONFLICTS 14 10 Resolved (8.1% )
4. NETWORK VOTES 4 3 Resolved (2.4% )
5. UNRESOLVED 1 1 Unresolved(0.8%)
PREDICTED SPATZ DATA FOR 1 TEAM DURING PROGRAM
(49 Unresolved)
(14 Unresolved)
(4 Unresolved)
(1 Unresolved)
(Recommendation made)

7. Our initial focus is market researching startup teams in accelerators programs and remotely.
• All participating team members will form the SpatzAI Founder Review Network.
Use the opportunity to start to gain data from the team meetings and on zoom calls.
Generally research the moderating toolkit effects and usage.
OUR MARKET – B2B
7000+ 100,000+
STARTUP
ACCELERATORS
STARTUP
TEAMS (annually)

8. *FREE FOR ALL ACCELERATORS’ FIRST BATCH OF STARTUP TEAMS
BUSINESS MODEL - B2B
REVENUE
# ACCELERATORS
200 = @5000 TEAMS $100,000
SaaS COST TO ACCELERATOR
$500/up to 40 TEAMS/YEAR
$19/TEAM/BATCH-PROGRAM
or
YEAR
$500,000
1000 = @25,000 TEAMS
2022
2023

9. DESMOND SHERLOCK
Co-founder of Tripcover.me (10 years)
Co-founder of Pablow Inc. (6 years)
Author of: Rethink Perfect - and the Art of
Moderating Our Own Disputes. (2012)
Industrial Designer
THE TEAM
Psychology Research Assistant AI & ML Data Scientist
To Be Announced To Be Announced

10. Contact: Desmond Sherlock
Website: Spatz.ai
Email: des@spatz.ai
Blog: Object123.com
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/tripcover
Disclaimer: The information contained in this pitch
is speculative and needs to be tested and should only
be used in agreement will all team members.
Thanks for watching
our presentation.