The Founder Series
Every founder story you have watched was filmed after it was safe to tell. This one is filmed while it is still happening. Four parts per founder, made the way a streamer would make it, shot to a standard a platform could pick up.
There is no stage requirement. There is a story requirement. A kitchen table idea is read with the same seriousness as a Series A, and the ten are a mix on purpose. Ten seats. All ten spoken for. Season one is closed.
Season one · First episodes out now on The Founders Cut
The series is a commitment, and you might want proof before you make it. The First Cut is one founder story, filmed and finished by the same crew to the same standard, and it stands on its own even if you never take a seat.
Card in, date held. A scope note follows the same day, and if we cannot make your date work it comes straight back.
The full program
The four parts, how a season is designed, the training we carry for every founder, and the application itself. Leave an email and it opens now. The same list hears first about premieres and open seats.
No noise, a few notes a season, and one click gets you off the list.
Most founders film the moment. By then the story is over. We film the road, released as you build, so the moment arrives with an audience already watching.
The moment is yours to define, first doors or fourth company. Then a monthly cadence after, so the audience has somewhere to return.
You are a good fit if
The shape is decided with you first. Then we go and get it.
Every series is commissioned by its founder. Scale, cadence, and terms are set in the design session, scoped to your stage. Seats are not first come. They are chosen.
The hardest part is rarely the filming. Some of the most brilliant founders we meet go quiet when a camera turns on. The company is ready. The image has not caught up. Closing that gap is the work, and it starts weeks before we film.
Nobody is born ready. The series comes with the people who get you there, and the change becomes part of what the audience watches.
Begins weeks before production does. Celebrity trainer Marcus Gaudin, Tier X at Equinox and top 50 company wide, builds you to the date, virtual or in home. Speech and energy coaching as needed. By the first shoot day you move like the person the audience expects.
Image consulting first: how the person on screen should read, decided with you. Then the wardrobe, hair, makeup, and grooming that get you there, with a trial before the day and a standby artist on every filming day. The shoot is never the experiment.
Recovery massage on set by our own therapist, and a quiet corner when the day runs long. The founders who look composed in part four were looked after in part one.
Together, these are The Finishing School. Scoped per founder through the Rider, our intake questionnaire. Virtual or in person, and priced to match.
September 2026
Two evenings are in contract for September, in Southampton and New York, and we will name them the moment the ink is dry. The list hears first, before anything is announced anywhere else.
Previously
Hamptons Fashion Week · 22 August 2026
The 360, the photobooth and the team, all day at Shop and Sip with Propel Earth. Recap coming soon.
Your details, then one question. Answer it in two sentences. We read every application and reply either way.
The series is a commissioned production, an investment in the company you are building, scoped to your stage through the Rider. Season one is closed. Applications here are for season two.
If this is not the right time to apply yourself, recommend a founder who fits. If they take a seat, there is a referral fee with your name on it.
Season one is closed. If your moment is next year, join the waitlist and hear first, before anything is announced anywhere else.
A season is ten founders and a year of filming. The Montage is the shorter road to the same thing: six weeks coached, built around one full production day, so the progress and the stumbles exist afterwards instead of living only in memory. The session is $2,400. The cohort is $4,500 and begins 2 November.
It is also the one thing here you can give to someone else. Most founders will not book this for themselves, and someone noticed them before anyone else did. A gift is scoped with you, papered, and delivered with a card in their name.
Test us first
The First Cut. Your founder story, a studio session on camera, one finished film to your guidelines, every raw frame yours. $2,500, and twenty five percent comes off a first booking at checkout. Seats are separate, by application and approval only. If you are approved for one, what you paid is credited against the series.
One click, no form. It scrolls you to the details on this page.