A New Cohort Experience from Raconteur
An invitation-only cohort for technical founders. Five founders. Four weeks. Working directly with Christina Ra, who spent twenty years building breakthrough companies, fifteen of them in deep tech, much of it inside iconic brands in their earliest days, to build the strategic foundation your technology needs to scale.
The Premise
Most early brand engagements skip the strategic foundation. They look at the competitors, then go straight into visual identity and a website. The slow work of understanding the category, defining the position, and building the story gets compressed into a few slides. Or skipped entirely.
The Founders Series addresses this gap. It is a guided, four-week cohort program that adapts the strategic work of a custom agency engagement for early-stage technical founders. We focus entirely on building a clear, defensible story.
Why This, Why Now
Christina has done this work more than a dozen times in private practice, and many more in-house, across twenty years building companies, fifteen of them in deep tech.
Food systems, mobility, climate, applied science. The Founders Series is the first time this exact exercise is being offered as a cohort.
A structured engagement that produces the strategic foundation a new technology needs to scale. Three integrated outputs, built together.
A clear-eyed map of the landscape you're entering and a defensible position within it. Where competitors sit. Where the white space is. Whether the right move is to compete inside an existing category or define a new one.
The story that holds up. What you are. Why now. Why you. Built to scale. The exact language your team and your investors will use.
A practical plan for how the story moves into the world. Audience priorities. Messaging tracks. The sequence of proof points that build credibility. The early operational moves that turn a strategic position into market reality.
The Commitment
The cohort runs for four weeks. Live time investment is one hour every week. Focused, structured working sessions with the cohort and with Christina directly.
The rest of the work happens between sessions. There is homework. The frameworks, the exercises, the strategic thinking that produces a real foundation cannot be done in a meeting. What you walk away with is a direct function of the time you invest.
More on structure, pricing, and curriculum to come. Waitlisted founders will hear first.
Who It's For
Inaugural Cohort — Summer 2026
The first cohort is small. To be considered, send a note about what you're building, where you are in the journey, and why the timing is right. More on structure and pricing as the inaugural cohort takes shape.