Most startup advice optimizes for attention

Expendite optimizes for Outcomes

Founders in emerging and underdeveloped ecosystems face a distorted picture of how startups actually work. Online content feeds mythology. Accelerators reward narrative. Funding dominates the conversation regardless of readiness.

Expendite exists to correct that distortion

This fellowship is built around how founders think, decide, and execute under constraint. It prioritizes intellectual rigor, execution discipline, and global market realism over hype, visibility, or empty encouragement.

This is

• Judgment calibration

• Execution discipline

• Global Insight

• Market realism

• Real Work

This is NOT

• Accelerator/ Incubator/ Bootcamp

• Funding program or investor access

• Demo day or Validation theater

• Startup basics

• Certificate mill

• Motivational or Networking community

Domains of Focus

The fellowship does not follow a traditional curriculum.

Instead, it operates across a set of recurring domains that shape how founders think and execute in complex environments across industries. These domains may evolve across cohorts.

• Decision architecture and judgment under uncertainty

• Execution under constraint and limited leverage

• Signal versus noise in markets, capital, and feedback

• Timing, irreversibility, and second-order effects

• Founder cognition, pressure, and internal alignment

• Strategy formation in asymmetric and global contexts

These domains are explored through writing, discussion, and applied work.

How the Fellowship Works

The fellowship is designed as applied work, not passive learning. Participants engage with a set of proprietary frameworks.

Clear False Assumptions

A supplementary book providing clarity on common misconceptions

Applied Discussion

Live sessions are used for critique, clarification, and decision refinement. These are not lectures. Discussion quality matters more than participation volume.

Action Assignments

Participants complete structured assignments tied to real decisions in their company.

Tangible Artifacts

Each assignment is designed to produce a concrete artifact.

Reflection Loop

Decisions and outputs are reviewed to identify blind spots, misalignment, and execution gaps. The goal is judgment improvement, not approval.

Execute Decisions

Cultivate the essential mindset required to lead a startup through executing hard decisions

What You Will Produce

These artifacts are designed to compound beyond the fellowship. Participants leave the fellowship with tangible work products that reflect their thinking and execution quality.

These artifacts are functional. They are designed to be used. Depending on your focus, you may produce:

A founder white paper or structured position memo

A market entry or expansion strategy

Structured Data Room

A partnership or distribution framework

Decision logs and execution analysis

Constraint Analysis

Who Should Apply

This fellowship is intended for founders who:

• Are early-stage or pre-revenue

• Are primarily solo founders or small founding teams

• Are technically capable or intellectually driven operators

• Operate from emerging or underrepresented ecosystem

• Founders outside major startup hubs seeking global calibration

• Are willing to pay for rigor, not reassurance

This fellowship is not suitable for:

• Beginners seeking basic startup education

• Founders optimizing for visibility or personal branding

• Teams looking for funding guarantees

• Lacking commitment

Commitment & Expectations

8 Weeks of fellowship, with 5-10 hours of work per week.

There is no guarantee of outcomes beyond the quality of work you produce.
There is no promise of funding, exposure, or access.

There are no refunds. The fee exists as a seriousness filter to ensure engagement quality

If accepted, you will be expected to engage fully, think independently, and execute honestly

Price

$2000 (USD)


Payable only after acceptance.
Fee exists to enforce commitment to the process and outputs.
Accepted participants have a fixed window to confirm and pay.

Scholarships

A limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Scholarships are not need-based and are not framed as financial assistance. They are allocated selectively to high-signal founders operating in constrained or underrepresented environments where access, not ability, is the limiting factor.
Scholarship decisions are made during the application review process.
Scholarship may require additional work by fellows and stricter expectations.

Applications for Cohort I Are Open

Cohort size is intentionally limited

Applications are reviewed manually

Deadline Feb 7th 2026
Cohort Begins March 2026

Selection prioritizes seriousness, clarity of thought, and execution capacity.

Remote-first
Global cohort

For Committed Founders

Time-bound program
8 Weeks