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HARNESS workshop

For founders, PMs, and operators with more good ideas than weeks.

From pile to portfolio, in three moves.

9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Coffee and gather at nine, three-hour working session through the morning, lunch and reflection through one. You arrive with a backlog and leave with a ranked portfolio, a one-page stress test, and a weekly rhythm your team can actually hold.

See the Summer 2026 tour Why HARNESS

Why HARNESS

Most teams do not have an idea problem. They have a pile problem. The doc has seventy bullets, three of them are real bets, and nobody can point to the evidence that says which three. Without shared evidence and a shared rhythm, the loudest voice wins on Monday and the same conversation repeats on Friday.

HARNESS is a working session, not a webinar. You bring the pile. We bring the method - four buckets to sort it, seven pillars to stress-test it, and a weekly meeting shape that keeps the portfolio honest. By the end of the room you have a one-page artifact your team can run from on Monday morning.

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Agenda

Doors at nine, three blocks across the morning, lunch and reflection through one. 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. One artifact you carry out the door.

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Doors, coffee, gather

Roll in, grab coffee, meet the room. We start the working session at nine-thirty sharp - arrive early enough to settle in.

  1. 9:30 - 10:15 AM

    1. Sort

    Dump the pile onto the wall and sort every line into four buckets - Bets, Bridges, Chores, and Cruft. No new ideas, no debate on merit yet. The point is a shared map of what is actually on the table.

    You leave with: a four-bucket map of your full backlog, agreed by the room.

  2. 10:15 - 11:45 AM

    2. Stress-test

    Take the Bets bucket through seven pillars - problem, customer, evidence, mechanism, moat, cost-to-truth, and reversibility. One page per bet. Where the page is thin, the bet is thin; that is the signal, not a verdict.

    You leave with: a one-page stress test per real bet and a ranked short list.

  3. 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

    3. Lock

    Lock the portfolio for the next quarter and lock the weekly meeting shape that keeps it honest - one review, one decision, one update. The rhythm is the deliverable; the portfolio is what it protects.

    You leave with: a locked quarterly portfolio and a weekly meeting agenda your team can run.

12:30 - 1:00 PM

Lunch and hangout

Lunch on us. Stay to network with the room, talk through what just landed, or compare notes with the facilitators. Head out whenever you're ready.

Bringing HARNESS to your team? Read the for-teams letter

Summer 2026 tour

Five stops. Seats per stop are limited. Luma RSVP pages go live shortly - this list is the dates and venues to hold.

Can't make a public stop, or want the room to be just your team? Bring HARNESS to your team and we'll schedule a private session.