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Nexum · How it works

One case, from filing to standing.

The whole journey on one page: what you do, what the house does, and what exists when the report is delivered. The left side of the line is the house’s work; the right side is yours. Choose your case’s shape below and the stations adjust.

YouThe house
Act I · The examination
  1. 01 · You

    File the case.

    Register and open your workspace. Build the record section by section, with AI alongside — or bring what you already have: documents, numbers, an existing plan. Everything you write is yours.

    A pre-launch case files its reasoning: the problem evidence, the substitute in use, the delta, the smallest version worth building.

    At filing: the house’s confidentiality undertaking already stands, and your submission is content-hashed — a provable record of what existed, when.

  2. 02 · The house

    One analyst takes the case and frames it.

    The analyst reads the whole record as a system — each answer against every other, each claim against the evidence behind it — then files the analytical frame: how the business makes money, what it depends on, where it is most likely to break, and what would test each point.

    The platform holds the draft locked until the frame is filed. Every finding that follows answers to it.

  3. 03 · You

    Answer what the record can’t.

    A channel opens between you and your analyst: up to five questions, put directly, answered in your own words. Your answers join the case and are cited in the findings — an ambiguity that matters is resolved by asking you.

  4. 04 · The house

    The machine works under the frame.

    AI holds the entire record in view at once — every answer, claim and figure cross-referenced continuously against the frame. The frame directs the machine. The four places that carry judgment — the verdict, the keystone assumption, the fragility ranking and every falsifier — accept only the analyst’s hand.

    To anything else, the platform returns “analyst input required.”

  5. 05 · The house

    A second signature.

    A second reviewer, uninvolved in producing the report, reads the record and the report and signs before delivery. Reviewers are analysts of the house. Fellows read the register; they do not sign verdicts.

    The person who built the argument is never the only person who approves it.

  6. 06 · You

    Receive the report.

    Inside fourteen days: eight sections, the findings register, every material claim carrying what would prove it wrong, the keystone divergence, and an exit on every finding — the event that resolves it, dated when it occurs.

    A Standard report closes on the keystone you named, set beside the one your record implies.

After delivery · The record

Only house events move an entry.

Every examined business holds an entry in the register the house maintains. Two dates live on it, and they do two different jobs — that separation is what keeps the register honest.

Your updates

Keep the entry visibly alive.

Progress notes, demos, self-reported news — they show the work is moving and they never move its rank. Position can’t be farmed with keystrokes.

House events

Give the entry rank.

ListedThe entry exists — the founder chose to be seen.
ExaminedThe instrument has been through the record; the findings’ shape is on the entry.
CurrentA house event within the last 180 days. Currency lapses; delivery restores it.

What the register shows is yours to decide.

Two choices, made by you:

Published · Confidential

Published, the entry is indexed and searchable. Confidential, it is excluded at the database level — invisible to everyone but you and your desk.

Named · Blind

Named shows the company behind the findings. Blind shows the work and the findings’ shape with a descriptor as the display name. You choose when you consent to publication; an entry is one or the other, never both.

Around the record · The bond

An introduction happens once, by consent, on the record.

Fellows read the register. When one of them wants to meet the founder behind an entry, this is the whole path — five steps, and the last one is the point.

01A Fellow asksA Fellow requests an introduction to your project — with their purpose stated to you, in their words.
02You see whoTheir name, their standing, what they’ve done — before anything moves. Nobody reaches you without context.
03You decideConsent, and contact is exchanged. Decline, and it costs you nothing — a decline that carried a price would make consent meaningless.
04The platform steps outThe conversation is yours. The house takes no part in it and no fee from it — a seat costs the same whether a Fellow makes zero introductions or twelve.
05Permanent recusalA Fellow who reaches for a founder can never evaluate that founder again, in any setting. The bond and the judgment never sit in the same hands.

Founders answer the cohort’s questions in the open, and every project carries its Q&A thread — on the record, attached to the work, permanently. Trust here is built where everyone can read it.

That’s the whole machine. The next case it reads could be yours.

The examination in full — the finding form, the six types, the two question sets — is laid out on the examination page. Filing starts from one question.

Begin the examinationThe instrument, in full →

Standard $500 · Advanced $1,000 · delivered within two weeks

Founding price for the first fifteen examinations, Standard or Advanced.