When the standard business models no longer fit, let’s design the architecture that does.
For organizations solving across multiple systems at once.
The challenge
You have a mandate, and you’re wondering how to fund it so the work stays true to its purpose.
There’s no standard answer. The nonprofit model, the venture model, the grant cycle and procurement each pull the work in their own direction. By the time you see how the funding shaped the work, the structure is often already set.
We design the financial architecture before that happens. Business model, capital structure, and governance as one integrated problem, at the moment when the structure is still in play.
Current work
Health infrastructure, the climate transition, digital infrastructure and the financial futures of civic organizations, much of it rooted in particular places and shaped with the communities who live there.
The approach
Complex challenges span multiple sectors and require many forms of contribution working in concert.
Hospital AI adoption touches health, employment, housing and equity. Energy transitions coordinate across power generation, buildings, manufacturing and mobility. These initiatives need grant funding for early development, procurement contracts for implementation, private investment for scale, scientific research and technical expertise, community resources and knowledge, and public infrastructure.
This includes
The vision
- Financing that fits the work.
- Governance that enables coordination instead of turf wars.
- What works in one place reaching others within months, not decades.
- Those closest to outcomes with the authority to respond.
Latest thinking
Open references
If you’re building something that the existing models don’t fit, get in touch.