Mission Protection for Venture-Backed Companies
Build a company that keeps its promises.
Advisory partners for aligning governance, purpose, and venture-scale financial returns. We help founders protect their mission for the long term at every layer: governance, business models, culture, and incentives.
“Without Mission Lock, success itself becomes a form of financial gravity, bending organizations away from their original purpose.”
Time and again, companies founded with strong ideals drift toward short-term thinking, extractive behavior, and mission abandonment.
It feels inevitable, because that’s how the so-called “best practices” are designed.
This is not fate.
Three Inevitable Challenges
Build Without Fear
The Incorruptible playbook protects founder vision and mission.
Financial Gravity
The pull that investors, markets, and major customers exert on the companies that depend on them. It reshapes your decisions and values, usually toward the short term. Because it’s predictable, you can build to withstand it.
Mission Drift
The slow slide away from what your company set out to do. It happens one reasonable compromise at a time, as new leaders, funders, and growth targets bring new defaults. Because it runs on defaults, you can choose better ones.
Broken Trust
The cost of trading lasting goodwill for quick gains. It looks like a win while eroding the foundation your company’s long-term value depends on. Because trust is an asset, you can learn to protect it like one.
Services
Advisory Partners for Founders and Investors
You know your mission better than anyone. We bring the frameworks, options, and hands-on help to make it last, from your first legal step through every stage of growth.
Talk With UsIncorruptible Blueprint Implementation
Becoming Incorruptible is not just a legal implementation. It’s an organizational strategy with widespread implications, from revenue to performance management and investor relations. It will never be easier to convert to a PBC than it is today, and if you’re not sure what that is, call us.
Mission Lock Ongoing Support
Protecting the mission isn’t a one-time project; drift compounds at every funding round, executive hire, and change in the business. We partner with leadership teams over the long term to predict, identify, and course-correct drift.
About
Our Ethos: We Only Help
We’re a cross-disciplinary team of founders, operators, investors, and transformation consultants, with experience across the lifecycle: from incorporation to scale, founding teams to boards. We craft useful, practical tools that make the Incorruptible promise accessible.
Mission
Advance the practice of creating mission-locked organizations so that humans and the planet can thrive.
Vision
A world where Incorruptible, mission-driven organizations are the norm, so that work, capital, and institutions serve human flourishing by design.
Our One Metric
By 2036: 10,000 organizations on the path to Incorruptible governance, structurally aligned around their mission.
Strategy
Be the best place on Earth to learn and practice the craft of Incorruptible governance.
Eric RiesFounder
Janice FraserFounder
Javier Fernandez
Rob Slifka