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Piloting

SkaFld OS is piloting. It is not generally available yet. Pilot access is set up with your team; there is no self-serve sign-up.

Home division: SkaFld.Elite

The innovationoperating system

Built for agencies, studios and corporate innovation teams.

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Every initiative, relationship, and dollar in one workspace, with our proprietary ideation methodology built in and an AI assistant grounded in your own work. Every division decides on one shared, tested standard. The SkaFld engine is the layer we're building them all on.

One record, signal to invoice

Follow one example record through the five stages it moves through in the workspace. The record is a sample; its figures follow the real formulas.

  1. First, intelligence.

    Research lands on the record before anyone forms an opinion.

    Example record

    Workforce AI pilot · Harbor County School District

    Intelligence
    Adjacent domainCommunity college credentialing
    Analogous domainMilitary after-action reviews
    Inverse domainPrograms that stalled, and why
    Stakeholder notesSuperintendent, 3 principals

  2. Then, decision gate.

    The Synthetic Balance Sheet scores it. The score sets the path.

    Example record

    Workforce AI pilot · Harbor County School District

    Decision Gate
    • Immediate value (asset)78
    • Future value (asset)91
    • Immediate cost (liability)34
    • Future cost (liability)29
    Balance
    77
    Executability Score
    82 Execute

  3. Next, execution.

    Contracts, folders, and tasks spin up from the same record.

    Example record

    Workforce AI pilot · Harbor County School District

    Execution
    • Partnership agreement signedDone
    • Shared folders and repository provisionedDone
    • Pilot cohort enrolledDone
    • Week 4 milestone reviewedDone

  4. Then, nurture.

    Partners see progress in the portal, drafted from the work.

    Example record

    Workforce AI pilot · Harbor County School District

    Nurture

    Portal update, sent to 4 partners

    Cohort one finished its first project. Two employer partners scored the work, and the week 6 review is on the calendar.

    Relationship sentiment, last five check-ins

  5. Last, closed.

    The invoice is paid and the books balance themselves.

    Example record

    Workforce AI pilot · Harbor County School District

    Closed
    Invoice 0142 · Paid$48,000
    DebitCash, $48,000
    CreditAccounts receivable, $48,000

Three plans, one record

SkaFld OS comes in three plans: for agencies, for studios and for corporate innovation teams. Each works from the same record. Founders, investors, schools and nonprofits have their own SkaFld products.

SkaFld OS for Agencies

For client services firms: pipeline, delivery, portals and margins per engagement

Deliver innovation work on a proprietary methodology, with the client portal, contracts, and billing on the same record as the analysis.

The modules they lean on

  • Ideation Methodology
  • Relationships & Pipeline
  • AI Assistant
  • Client Portal
  • Investment Pipeline
  • Portfolio Tracking
  • Finance
  • Automation

Eight modules, one record

Each module reads from the same relationships, initiatives, and documents, so the whole organization compounds with every project run through it.

What runs today

Every division decides on one shared, tested standard: the Synthetic Balance Sheet and the Executability Score. The SkaFld engine is the layer we're building them all on. What runs today: SkaFld VC computes the 0 to 100 decision balance, and the SkaFld OS workspace gates on the Executability Score and computes the Synthetic Balance Sheet currency valuation.

  • SkaFld Ideation Methodology

    A research-first method for deciding what is worth building, with workspaces for the Synthetic Balance Sheet, the Three Ledgers System, Pre-Mortem, and the cross-domain value dictionary. Every option gets an Executability Score from 0 to 100 before the Decision Gate.

  • Relationships & Pipeline

    A CRM that separates the organization from the initiative, so one partner can carry many programs. The pipeline runs on a Kanban board with revenue analytics, filtered by division.

  • AI Assistant & Smart Recap

    Specialist agents working over your documents and a knowledge graph of every relationship and initiative. It answers questions and turns call recordings from your notetaker into threaded recaps, with sentiment tracked across the relationship. Provider-agnostic.

  • Client Portal

    Clients, partners, and funders sign in with a magic link to see deliverables, documents, billing, and open requests. Status updates are drafted from the work itself.

  • Investment Pipeline

    An 11-stage deal pipeline with data rooms, screening scores, and committee voting, for studios and corporate teams that invest. Angels, networks and corporate VC use SkaFld VC.

  • Portfolio Tracking

    Ventures, programs, or pilots tracked by KPI, health score, and lifecycle stage, so everything in flight meets the same evidence bar.

  • Finance

    Double-entry bookkeeping underneath: invoices, bills, expenses, a chart of accounts, and journal entries. Overdue balances are flagged automatically.

  • Automation & Integrations

    Opening an initiative can provision its shared folders, code repository, and secrets configuration. Calendars and inboxes sync in, contracts go out for signature, and workflows trigger on the events that matter.

How the work moves

8 steps, from Intake to Learn.

  1. Intake

    Requests, leads and ideas arrive by email, form or Scout and become Opportunities.

  2. Frame

    Brief turns each into a standard write-up with tiered evidence.

  3. Decide

    Synthetic Balance Sheet and Executability gate; overrides are recorded with a reason.

    Uses the Synthetic Balance Sheet

  4. Initiate

    A gated opportunity becomes an Initiative with kind, owner, budget and plan.

  5. Deliver

    Tasks, documents, client portal and agents run the work; decisions land in the inbox.

  6. Bill

    Time, costs, invoices and margin per initiative, synced to accounting.

  7. Review

    Retro, outcome against the original Synthetic Balance Sheet, and a client health score.

    Uses the Synthetic Balance Sheet

  8. Learn

    Patterns, playbooks and methodology updates written back to the pattern library.

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