For foundations and portfolio teams with ventures already in motion. We pinpoint what is blocking the next result, help founders act, and show what changed outside the venture.
OptionBack further?
OptionChange the approach?
OptionPause until there is stronger evidence?
The founder discovered that his offer was speaking to technical teams instead of the finance head making the buying decision. After reshaping the approach, he reported that three stalled pilots became paying customers.
“The biggest shift was working out who my customer really is.”
Comfort used customer economics to identify hospitals as a promising channel, then built an outreach list with AI. She reached out to 11 hospitals, closed four deals, and one hospital ordered 20 carriers before returning for 30 more.
“Before Threshold, most of our decisions were guesswork.”
After a coaching conversation about reaching institutions, Okello built a campus ambassador programme. He reported around 30 ambassadors across eight campuses and a 44% increase in collected revenue.
“I don’t have a board of directors. Threshold was like my board.”
Founder-reported progress from our 90-day Fast Track within an existing fellowship.
A venture with customers and a working offer, but uneven recurring revenue.
A detailed baseline of each venture’s stage, goal, traction and constraints.
Pinpoint what is blocking the next result.
Sprints and weekly coaching placed where the baseline says.
Assistants research, draft and track. Founders approve consequential actions.
Dated, attributable evidence from customers, funders or partners.
The sponsor decides on evidence, not narrative.
Six sprints each, placed where the baseline says.
Week 0 baseline · six targeted sprints · AI and coaching every week · Week 12 review · Month 6 check back. Routes shown are illustrative.
The next sprint, not a fixed syllabus.
Every sprint, hour and investment should buy down a specific uncertainty that stands between a venture and its next meaningful result.
Skills, then workflows, then selective agents.
A reusable method for discovery, offers and insight.
Account research, outreach drafting, meeting follow-up and pipeline review. Three real runs precede a repeatable workflow.
Supervised preparation and coordination as fellows become ready. Shadowing and human review precede an agent’s wider use.
Works with the tools founders already use; people approve external actions.
Build a priced offer. Put it in front of a real buyer.
Find relevant prospects. Send tailored outreach. Work the replies.
Fix scope, pricing or delivery. Ask for the next order.
Built for real portfolio work. Threshold brings programme delivery, founder coaching and AI workflow design into one engagement. Nihal and colleagues have run international venture programmes; Abhijit has built community learning pathways; Akshay and advisors Norm, Iris, Patrick, Varun and Rizwan add venture, design, technology and scaling expertise. Meet the team →
A proposed two-week, bounded engagement for a small selected group of your ventures. It shows how LIFT would work on your portfolio before you commission it.
Scope, fee and capacity agreed before launch. The preview is proposed after a first 60-minute conversation, and only if you and Threshold agree terms.
Why fixed: a founding cohort keeps delivery credible. Larger cohorts can be scoped after the first cycle.
No. The evidence may support adapting, continuing or pausing.
The human delivery model is ready. In the founding cohort, controlled AI workflows will be tested in live use. Founders approve consequential actions.
Our team is running a 90-day venture Fast Track within an existing fellowship. LIFT has not yet run a full cohort. The first cohort will test progression, time saved and decision usefulness at Week 12 and Month 6.
Relevant ventures, a decision-maker and useful relationships. Agree any venture funding separately.
Six criteria, scored 0–3. A hard disqualifier overrides the total score.