Our mission: To increase startup team cohesion and interaction (psychological safety) by creating a toolkit to self-manage and monitor our spats, disputes and founder conflict

1. OUR
VISION
To increase startup team cohesion and interaction
(psychological safety) by creating a toolkit to
self-manage and monitor our spats,
disputes and founder conflict
“65% of startup teams
fail due to founder conflict”
Prof. Noam Wasserman
THE FOUNDER’S DILEMMAS

2. Toolkit to self-manage our spats,
disputes, and founder conflict
des@spatz.ai | spatz.ai | Desmond Sherlock
OUR MISSION:
To protect team members sharing
conflicting views.

3. POOR DECISION-MAKING
When founders disagree we can get
defensive and misconduct will occur.
With little or no recourse to manage
our spats, disputes and founder conflict
resulting in poor decision-making and
causing most startups to fail.
NINE OUT OF TEN
funded startups are failing
THE
PROBLEM
“65% of startup teams fail
due to founder conflict”
Prof. Noam Wasserman
THE FOUNDER’S DILEMMAS
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. We can monitor the data from our spats,
disputes, and founder conflicts to determine
the health of the startup 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 supplying their cohorts:
• Easier to add to a new company than retrofit an existing one
• Make it free and study the results before going commercial
MARKET SIZE
7000+ 60,000+ 250,000+
STARTUP ACCELERATORS STARTUPS FOUNDER TEAM MEMBERS
After our study with startups at
accelerators we will then market
the results to the corporate world.
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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 offer workshops and programs and internships
for their systems but not self-management application.

8. 2. DESMOND SHERLOCK
CHIEF
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
1. Need to Find 3. Need to Find

9. PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
SETUP THE NETWORK
NOT FOR PROFIT
COMPANY SETUP
MARKETING & SALES
TO FIND ACCELERATORS
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
& EXPERIMENTAL PLAN
We will be a Not For Profit organization and wish
to raise $100,000 for 10% of with a valuation of
$1,000,000. Next slide shows our spend plans.
THE ASK
$45k $10k $5k $40k

10. COHORT 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 apply to a high profile startup accelerator to
possibly be part of their next cohort and also to be
part of a potential commercial product that they can
use if successfully tested. Here is a list of what we will
have completed by the end of the their program.
ACCELERATOR BRAND

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