A New Cohort Experience from Raconteur
An invitation-only cohort for technical founders building category-defining companies. Five founders. Four weeks. Working directly with Christina Ra, who has spent fifteen years doing this work in-house and in private practice, to build the strategic foundation your breakthrough needs to win.
The Premise
Most early brand engagements skip past the strategic foundation. A cursory look at the landscape, then straight into visual identity and a website. The slow, careful work of understanding the category, sharpening the position, and building the long-term 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 distills the strategic work of a custom agency engagement into an accessible format for early-stage technical visionaries. We focus entirely on building a clear, defensible story that you can use to raise capital, hire talent, and go to market.
Why This, Why Now
Christina has done this work more than a dozen times in private practice, and many more in-house, across fifteen years building deep tech companies. Hands-on. In the trenches. Pre-seed through IPO.
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 breakthrough technology needs to become a market leader. 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 across audiences and time. What you are. Why now. Why you. Built to scale from the seed pitch to the IPO press release. The exact language your team and your investors can repeat.
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 and curated. 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.