In 12 weeks you'll hold signed evidence your business works — or a documented reason to stop.
For tech professionals earning $125k+ with capital committed and a first move already made. A cohort of 15 runs Insight-Driven Iteration inside the Founder's Workbench — with live weekly coaching from David Linhardt.
You're earning $125k+ and stuck in golden handcuffs. You have an idea, maybe a prototype and five customer conversations — and an ambiguous result. You don't need more inspiration. You need to know, on a deadline, whether this is real.
Four concrete things. Nothing vague.
A cohort, on a clock
15 founders run the full method together, on fixed dates. The deadline is the point.
Weekly coaching with David
90 minutes a week of live group coaching, plus 1-on-1 time on your specific situation.
The instrument
The Founder's Workbench holds every experiment, insight, and decision — and the AI Sensei.
Six founders beside you
A small pod in the same fight — customer discovery, MVPs, first sales. Accountability that lasts.
Insight-Driven Iteration
Three phases of validation, each broken into experiments. Run a test, capture the Customer insight, then proceed, pivot, or kill — until you've earned a business model that scales.
Concise, testable, and honest about what "success" requires. Every experiment in the program moves one term of this equation from assumption to evidence.
The Fundamental Thesis
Every experiment and insight rolls up into one shareable, investor-ready document: what you believe, the evidence behind it, and the decision it points to. It's the artifact advisors and investors actually want to see — and the thing most founders can never produce.
See how the Workbench builds it →They describe a program, not an app.
"FounderDojo helps you block out the noise. It helps you focus on what really matters to make your startup successful."
"I owe 100% of my success to FounderDojo. Whatever else you're thinking about doing, stop and sign up. It will save years of your life."
"FounderDojo taught me how to listen to Customers. Now I know how to get insight from Customers and use it to improve my business."
Who this is for — and who it isn't
Not everyone qualifies. That's deliberate. The standard is what makes the room worth being in.
First SenseiDavid Linhardt — 14-time founder
Ex-Amazon, ex-P&G. I left the corporate hierarchy, started a business in my house with $5K, and learned the hard way that a startup is nota smaller version of a big company. It's fundamentally different.
I've founded fourteen startups and now run a studio applying this exact validation process. In the program, I coach every cohort personally.
Read the full story →If you bring the heart, we can teach you the skills.
The next cohort seats 15 founders. Applications close September 19, 2026. Review takes about a week.