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Advisory partners for aligning governance, mission, and long-term financial returns.
"Without Mission Lock, success itself becomes a form of financial gravity, bending organizations away from their original purpose."
The latest thinking from New York Times bestselling author Eric Ries.
The best companies create outsized impact by investing in trust: Costco, HEB, John Lewis Partnership, Mondragon.
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, and it's quite a new phenomenon.
In his well-researched NYT Bestseller Incorruptible, Eric Ries surgically deconstructs the mechanisms by which these failures are perpetrated.
We help founders protect their mission for the long term: governance, business models, culture, and incentives.
Founders
Eric Ries
Janice Fraser
About Us
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.
Mission
Build 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
The founders, operators, and investors who train here take it with them. The work continues in companies they build, boards they join, funds they run, and practitioners they teach.
Our Services
Incorruptible Blueprint Implementation
Becoming Incorruptible is not just a legal implementation.
It's an organizational transformation with widespread implications, from strategy and revenue to performance management and investor relations.
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 in the organization.
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Let us help you lock in your mission.