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    Your standard. Founders who meet it.

    You keep your curriculum and your criteria. Founders prepare against them beside Facilitate's own curriculum, and everything they make builds a record they own. When they apply, you see their readiness in your own words, from work they have already done.

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    Founders ready for you

    Your team, with ours

    Your curriculum and your criteria go in the way you word them. They sit beside Facilitate's own curriculum, and neither replaces the other.

    1. 1Your curriculum comes in as it isYour curriculum and your criteria go in the way you word them. They sit beside Facilitate's own curriculum, and neither replaces the other.
    2. 2Founders prepare against itFounders work through your curriculum and Facilitate's own: discovery, a canvas, a pitch, documents, an interview. Each step ends in something they can show you.
    3. 3Their work becomes a recordTheir own first answers, the coaching they took or turned down, and their scores all land on one record. It belongs to the founder, and it grows as they do.
    4. 4You see readiness in your termsWhen a founder shares their record with you, it is laid out against your criteria. You read your own standard, in your own words, with the work behind every answer.
    5. 5Admit with confidenceYou decide what ready means and who meets it. Every answer comes with the work behind it, so your decision rests on what a founder has done, not on one good afternoon.

    6. Founders ready for you

    How your curriculum fits.

    Facilitate has its own curriculum, and founders work through it. Yours is integrated beside it, so the same work answers your criteria in your wording. Pick a criterion to see where its evidence comes from.

    What ready means to you

    Where the evidence comes from, on a founder’s record

    • DiscoveryWhat the founder learned from the people they want to serve.
    • The canvasThe whole venture on one page: customer, problem, offer, money.
    • The pitchA recorded pitch, with a score for every part.
    • DocumentsThe deck, the one-pager and the first numbers.
    • InterviewsRecorded answers to the questions you already ask.

    In your curriculum this might read

    The founder knows whose problem this is, and can say how they know.

    Discovery
    The founder's notes from the conversations where the problem showed up, in their own words.
    The pitch
    The problem part of the recorded pitch, with its score and the coaching that came with it.

    • A real problem

      The founder knows whose problem this is, and can say how they know.

      Discovery
      The founder's notes from the conversations where the problem showed up, in their own words.
      The pitch
      The problem part of the recorded pitch, with its score and the coaching that came with it.

    • A named customer

      A first customer with a name, not a market with a size.

      Discovery
      The people the founder spoke to, and what they said they would pay for.
      The canvas
      The customer block of the canvas, and how it sharpened from one draft to the next.

    • A business model that could work

      The numbers add up well enough to test in the real world.

      The canvas
      The offer and the money blocks of the canvas, side by side.
      Documents
      A price and a first cash flow projection, worked through with a coach.

    • Early traction

      Something real has happened outside the founder's head.

      Documents
      A first invoice, a signed letter, a waitlist: whatever the founder can show you today.
      Interviews
      The founder, on record, answering “what has happened since you started?”

    • A team that can build it

      The people at the table can do the next six months of work.

      The pitch
      The team part of the pitch, and whether the ask fits the people there to deliver it.
      Interviews
      Recorded answers on who does what, and the first hire the founder would make.

    Sample criteria, for illustration. Yours go in as you word them, beside Facilitate’s own curriculum, and the same record answers both.

    Who is ready for you.

    You set the standard. The record shows who meets it, and what the others still have to show. Move the standard and watch who it includes. Nobody is admitted on a first impression.

    What ready means to you

    4 of 7 sample founders meet it.

    • R. O.Repairs and resells school laptops for families nearbyStill to show: early traction
    • A. M.Meal kits built around one neighbourhood's grocersEvidence on record for every criterion
    • D. L.Booking software for independent barbersStill to show: a team that can build it
    • N. B.Refillable cleaning products, sold at local marketsEvidence on record for every criterion
    • Not yet at your standard, and they can see what is missing
    • J. T.An app idea for student housing, still looking for its first userStill to show: a named customer, a business model that could work, early traction
    • S. K.After-school coding clubs, run by older studentsStill to show: a business model that could work, early traction
    • E. W.A tutoring marketplace for newcomer familiesStill to show: a named customer, early traction

    Sample founders, for illustration. A filled square is a criterion with evidence on the founder’s record; an outlined one is not there yet. The criteria and the standard are yours to set.

    What a ready founder brings to your door.

    Readiness here is not a badge we hand out. It is a record a founder built by doing the work, which you read against your own criteria.

    • Their own words first

      Every answer begins in the founder's own words, and you can see it as they first wrote it.

    • Coaching on the record

      The coaching a founder took, and the coaching they turned down, sits beside the work. You see their judgement, not only their result.

    • Read in your terms

      The same work answers your criteria and Facilitate's own curriculum. You never translate someone else's standard.

    • Shared by their choice

      The record belongs to the founder. You see it because they chose you.

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    A major campus-linked accelerator connected to Canada's largest university runs its cohorts on Facilitate. Founders move from ideation canvas to investor-ready pitch inside one workspace, and program staff see progress without chasing it. The accelerator keeps its identity; the platform carries the work.

    Your first ninety days.

    1. Days 1 to 30Your curriculum goes into the platform, in your words
    2. Days 31 to 60Founders work through it beside Facilitate's own
    3. Days 61 to 90Admit against a record, not a first impression

    Tell us what ready means to you.

    Bring your curriculum and the criteria you admit against. We will show you how they sit beside Facilitate's own curriculum, and what a founder's record looks like when it is read in your terms.

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