Founders' Mondays - The Work Room: Mapping your Startup from Top Down

This week: Your Startup, Top Down

Over past Founder Mondays, we’ve explored the Business Engine: the customers you serve, the value you create, how it reaches the market, and what makes it sustainable.

This week, we’ll step back and look at your startup as a whole.

Using a simple business modelling framework, we’ll map your business from the top down, helping you identify what’s already clear, where the gaps are, and which assumptions deserve your attention next.

This is a practical working session with a short introduction followed by dedicated time to work on your own startup, with support and discussion throughout.

Whether you’re still refining an idea or already building, you’ll leave with a clearer picture of how the pieces of your business fit together.

Why we’re here?

Give serious AI-native founders in Singapore an edge so they keep moving from building to delivering.

Who it’s for?

Actively building (pre-MVP, post-launch, late-stage)

Want’s likeminded peers and structured problem-solving

Interested in at-least weekly cadence

Open to committing if the value is real

How the day plays out?

10am — Doors open

As we say in Singapore, OTOT.

12.30pm — Lunch & Social
BYOF. Meet your peers. Build real relationships over food.

1:30pm — The Work Room
From founder topics that broaden your awareness, to real-time problem-solving. This is where you build your founder muscle and keep moving

5pm — “Next move”

We roundup & wrap here.

The Work Room

We bring a veteran.

You come with something real: what you’ve done, what changed, what’s stuck.

This is your time to focus on being a founder, leader, business owner. Not just tech, not just AI, but running a business.

It could be: Pipelines. Product. Marketing.
Segments. Users. Traction. Flywheels.
Budgets. Teams. Funding. Pricing
Contracts. Taxes. Regulation…

Bring a problem, leave with a decision/direction/solution that’s yours. Follow-up next week.

Weekly Founder Topic

20-30 mins, talk or learning
Short session on a real founder topic, drawn from the room, or brought by someone who’s lived through it.

Founder Cases

2-3 cases, up to 45 mins each

Facilitated and collaborative problem-solving with your peers in the room.