Accelerator Launch Strategy, for Monday

Scoreboard: goal vs. today

24 days to cohort start. The infrastructure shipped (heavy commits through 7/30 across workers.vc, GovKit, amebo, CRM) and the pipeline of people mostly exists in verbal form. The work of the next two weeks is conversion and scheduling: get the verbal yeses onto the wall, get the mentor asks sent, and get meetings, workshops, and events on real calendars.

The strategic read

• The wall lags reality, and that is fixable in days. Verbal commits exist for a second mentor, six founder teams, and Moka is joining too [SRC: Golda 2026-07-31; capture Moka's role when adding to the wall], plus 3 pool applicants on Wellfound. Each verbal yes is one personal invite link away from being a wall entry and an announcement. Conversion, not discovery.
• Mike Moyer is the unfired starting gun. Committed, picture and endorsement OK [SRC: Golda 2026-07-15], still unannounced. Announcing him is the single cheapest credibility event available, and it opens the "one announcement a day" cadence Golda already designed [SRC: Golda voice notes 2026-07-16].
• Mentors come from Golda's network by direct ask. "I can get mentors from my network if I ask people, I just need to do that." [SRC: Golda 2026-07-31] The scarce resource is her asking time. So the team's job is to make each ask cost five minutes: prepped list, prepped one-liner, scheduling link ready, follow-up owned by someone else.
• SF funder trip, second week of August. Golda plans to be in the Bay Area to line up funders (long shot, worth trying) [SRC: Golda 2026-07-31]. Needs: good events that week (scout running), warm intros queued before the trip, and the funder one-pager in hand.
• Ownership Economy Summit (Oct 1, NYC, ~40+ investors and funders) lands six days after the cohort ends. That is a natural demo day: graduate Sept 25, show real dashboards and real pies on stage Oct 1, make the funding ask with proof. The whole cohort can be run as preparation for that ten minutes.
• Mentors earn equity in the accelerator itself. So mentor recruitment IS the first funding round, paid in the same currency the program teaches. The pitch to mentors and the pitch to funders are the same pie.
• The intake machine leaks at the edges: the old linkedtrust.us/earnedgov wall is still live with a different, test-polluted roster and broken photos; walk-up acceptance depends on someone checking /admin/; no SMTP on the VM means no notification emails; org provisioning fires once with no retry. Any buzz push multiplies traffic into these leaks.

Three strategy options

The next two weeks: put it on calendars

The timeline is short. These are proposed slots to fill Monday; dates are suggestions, the shape is the point: every verbal yes gets a meeting, every audience gets an event before Aug 24.

Bay Area events scouted for the trip (web search, 2026-07-31)

Honest read: nothing employee-ownership or co-op specific is happening in SF that week (ESOP Association is Nov in Las Vegas; Ownership Economy is NYC). What exists is the general startup/VC circuit, and it clusters at the END of the window. If dates flex, Thu Aug 13 to Mon Aug 17 catches the two best rooms. Otherwise the trip earns its keep through booked 1:1s.

So it is not just Golda: how the team plugs in

Owner names are proposals to confirm Monday, not assignments. The principle: Golda does only what only she can do (the personal asks, the SF meetings, the decisions). Everything around each ask is carried by a teammate or an agent session.

Funding into the accelerator itself: four live paths

Board prioritization (Taiga: earned-governance-toolkit-accelerator)

Decisions only Golda can make (Monday list)

• Mentor ask level (the draft 1 to 2 hrs/month + equity recognition is unconfirmed) and advisor governance status ("board while advising" not settled).
• Funder money-path copy: what exactly a funder buys and how it is worded.
• Curriculum task shape: 5 module tasks or 14 rail-item tasks (blocks #21).
• Whether createClaim stores a display name so wall cards show real names (proposed, has an unauthenticated-naming risk).
• Evelyn Ting: publishable yet or not.
• Old linkedtrust.us/earnedgov pages: redirect to workers.vc, or keep and sync?
• Strategy blend above: yes, or a different emphasis.

Standing rules to encode (amebo claws / recurring checks)

• Daily: check held walk-ups in workers.vc moderation AND new applicants on the Wellfound page; accept-and-post is the cadence engine. Alert if anything sits unreviewed 24h. (3 Wellfound applicants waiting as of 7/31.)
• Daily: unanswered venture-interest rows (GovKit open-interest feed) older than 48h get flagged to the venture and to Golda.
• Weekly: per-team health digest from GovKit (tasks dropped, pie movement, last activity); stalled team = mentor nudge, not a dashboard silence.
• Weekly: invite chain audit: invites sent vs accepted; chase or retire stale invites. Also watch the known fragility that org provisioning fires once with no retry.
• Every announcement: consent check first (the consent copy already written), never name anyone unconfirmed.

Agent session prompts (copy-paste)

Each is a self-contained prompt for a Claude session on this VM. All obey: search abra first, use people's own words, nothing published or sent without human approval, no em dashes, consent before naming anyone.

1. Mentor ask prep from Golda's network (make each ask cost 5 minutes)

Goal: 8-12 mentors. Golda says she can get them from her network if she asks; your job is to make asking
nearly free for her. Wanted domains: supply chain, healthcare, logistics, marketplace, HR, real estate,
energy, plus coop/ownership experts.
Read first: /opt/shared/projects/Active/earnedgov/accelerator-mentors-request.md (the ask, still draft),
COPY-PRINCIPLES.md in the same dir, and abra read golda-writing-voice.
Do: search abra (abra who, abra search, abra names) and the CRM (odoo-cli) across her ~2000 contacts for
people matching those domains with warm history; web-search each for current role. Include
/opt/shared/projects/strategy/2026-June/06-14-26-earned-governance-targets.csv.
Produce: a ranked ask list of 15-25: name, channel she'd actually use (email/LinkedIn/text), warmth, why them,
their own words from our notes, and a 2-3 sentence ask drafted from HER voice samples, personalized, ready to
send or lightly edit. Mark every AI-drafted sentence. Batch into 3 sitting-sized groups so she can clear one
per calendar block. For each yes, the follow-up steps (invite link, calendar link, wall entry, announcement)
go to a teammate, not back to her. Send nothing yourself. Store the list in abra (scope linkedtrust).

2. Funder pipeline for the accelerator itself

Goal: money into the accelerator (stipend sponsors, pie backers, grants) by Oct 1.
Read first: /opt/shared/projects/Active/earnedgov/MAIN.md (funding facts, what money buys and does not buy),
2-27-program.txt, the targets CSV in /opt/shared/projects/strategy/2026-June/.
Do: for each funder-type target (Sorenson, Predistribution Initiative, Ownership Capital Lab, Shared Capital,
The Working World, Fledge, Spungen) establish current status from abra + CRM + web: open cycles, right contact,
what they funded lately. Check whether the Sorenson application has a reply owner. Identify 5 NEW funder
prospects from the web that fund employee ownership, coop conversion, or accelerators, with evidence.
Produce: a one-screen pipeline table (who, what to ask for, why now, owner) and a draft one-page funder brief
built only from sourced quotes in MAIN.md and 2-27-program.txt, AI-drafted parts marked. Send nothing.

3. Buzz and media cadence

Goal: one true announcement per day from Aug 4, each with consent confirmed.
Read first: COPY-PRINCIPLES.md (banned words, per-audience verbs: founders share a launch, mentors join,
funders back), consent copy in the same file, abra read golda-writing-voice.
Do: build a 3-week announcement calendar from real events only: Mike Moyer (confirmed publishable),
IntegralMass launching in the cohort, each new mentor/venture as they land. Target outlets: Co-operative News,
GEO, The Stakehold, Platform Cooperativism Consortium, Zebras Unite channels, plus 5 podcasts found by web
search that cover employee ownership. Also execute Taiga #22: prepare the Equity Matrix directory listing.
Produce: the calendar, per-outlet pitch notes using our sourced quotes, and draft posts marked AI-drafted.
Publish and send NOTHING without approval.

4. UX and intake leak pass

Goal: the funnel survives strangers before any buzz push. UX is the top priority; judge as a first-time visitor.
Do, checking the LIVE urls (nothing runs locally; repo /opt/shared/repos/workers.vc deploys on push to main):
(1) old pages linkedtrust.us/earnedgov/ and /commit/ still live with a stale test-polluted wall and broken
photos: propose redirect or fix, ask before changing anything on that VM; (2) "Demo Org - Try Things Here"
is publicly listed on workers.vc/ventures/: hide test orgs from public lists; (3) opportunities page is empty:
seed real asks (needs Golda's funder copy for the backing ask); (4) signed-out dash.workers.vc shows nothing:
one orienting line; (5) walk the /commit/ flow on mobile viewport; (6) wall abuse protection before buzz
(rate limit, moderation default) per the 07-12 UX review. Small fixes: implement, test live, commit and push.
Anything structural: report first.

5. Founder conversion and team formation

Goal: every verbal yes becomes a wall entry and a registered venture before Aug 24. Pipeline as of 7/31:
6 founders on the wall as individuals, verbal interest or commits from 6 founder teams, Moka joining,
3 pool applicants on the Wellfound page (ask Golda for the current list and the Wellfound access).
Read first: /opt/shared/projects/Active/earnedgov/MAIN.md, the venture-interest handoff in handoffs/.
Do: build one conversion tracker: person/team, status (verbal / on wall / venture registered / tasks live),
what is missing (venture page, pitch in their OWN words, invite link sent, mentor matched, call scheduled),
next step and owner. Prep each conversion call: the team's gap list plus the one question that gets their
venture page filled in their words. Check the ideas board has adoptable ideas for pool joiners.
Report and keep the tracker updated in abra (scope linkedtrust); contact no one directly.

5b. Event and workshop ops (next two weeks)

Goal: the meetings, workshops, and events in the two-week plan exist on real calendars with invites out.
Slate to stand up (confirm details with Golda before anything goes out): founder conversion calls (7),
Golda's mentor-ask calendar blocks, mentor orientation call (week of Aug 10), a public "how earned equity
works" workshop, cohort orientation (week of Aug 17), launch-day plan for Aug 24.
Do: for each, draft the calendar entry, the invite text (from sourced words, AI parts marked), the attendee
list from the conversion tracker and mentor list, and the reminder + follow-up steps. Use per-person calendar
links where they exist. Nothing sends without approval; produce a ready-to-send packet per event.

5c. SF funder trip prep (week of Aug 10)

Goal: Golda is in the SF Bay Area roughly Aug 10-16 to line up funders. Make the trip dense.
Do: (1) take the scouted Bay Area event list for that week (in this doc / abra) and keep it current,
registration links included; (2) from abra + CRM, list every warm contact in the Bay Area worth a coffee:
funders first, then mentors-in-reach and allies; (3) draft a warm-intro request email for each bridge person,
in Golda's voice from her samples, marked AI-drafted, for her approval the week before; (4) assemble the
carry kit: funder one-pager (prompt 2), live dash demo path, the consent-checked names she may cite.
Produce one trip brief: events, targets, asks, open slots. Send nothing without approval.

5d. Step SF connector prep (Golda is attending, Aug 26-27)

Goal: Golda attends Step San Francisco 2026, Aug 26-27, The Midway, SF (stepsf.com), to line up funders for
the Earned Governance Accelerator (workers.vc, cohort starts Aug 24). Find the KEY CONNECTORS in advance and
prep work with them, so the two days are a series of arranged conversations, not wandering a venue.
Read first: abra read accel-launch-state-0731, accel-pipeline-0731, accel-sf-events-aug2026 (context);
/opt/shared/projects/Active/earnedgov/COPY-PRINCIPLES.md; abra read golda-writing-voice.
Do:
1. Map the room: from stepsf.com, Luma, Eventbrite, LinkedIn and press, list speakers, organizers, sponsors,
   track hosts, and any side events around Aug 26-27. Verify against the 2026 event, not older editions.
2. Find connectors, not just funders: organizers, moderators, community hosts, active angels, accelerator and
   fund-network heads, i.e. people who can each open several investor doors, especially anyone adjacent to
   employee ownership, impact, or future-of-work capital.
3. Cross-reference every name against abra (abra about, abra search) and the CRM (odoo-cli) for warm paths:
   who we know who knows them, and any of their own words in our notes.
4. Rank the top 10-15: name, role, why they multiply (whom they can intro), warm path or cold, suggested ask
   (a specific intro, co-hosting a small side gathering, a 15-minute slot at the event).
5. For each of the top 10, draft a 2-3 sentence advance note in Golda's voice from her writing samples,
   personalized, marked AI-drafted, ready for her to lightly edit and send 1-2 weeks out.
6. Practicalities: ticket/registration status and cost, side events worth booking, and a flag (do not solve)
   that cohort launch is Aug 24 and launch-week coverage needs a named owner.
Deliver one connector brief (file in ~/work, plus store the ranked list in abra scope linkedtrust,
cat by month). Send nothing, contact no one; everything goes to Golda for approval.

6. Weekly cohort health (run every Monday during the cohort)

Goal: no team fails silently. Read GovKit data via its APIs/commons feeds (never its DB directly):
per team, tasks dropped last week, pie movement, open unanswered interest, last member activity.
Flag: any team with zero activity in 7 days, any interest row unanswered 48h+, any invite accepted but
org provisioning incomplete (known once-only trigger fragility). Produce a one-screen Monday digest:
green/yellow/red per team, one suggested nudge each (to the team's mentor, not around them).
Store the digest in abra scope linkedtrust, cat by month.

7. Summit demo prep (start ~Sept 8)

Goal: the 10-minute Ownership Economy Summit slot (Oct 1, NYC, ~40+ investors/funders) lands the funding ask.
Do: build the demo script around REAL cohort dashboards (screenshots of actual team pies and task flows,
never mockups presented as real, per Golda's rule that a design is a spec the product must meet). Structure:
the why in Golda's words from 07-11-26-accelerator-framing-golda.md, one team's 4-week arc, the pie, the ask
(from the funder brief, prompt 2). Produce: script, shot list of screens to capture, the one-pager, and a
rehearsal checklist. All AI-drafted text marked; Golda's quotes verbatim.

AI-drafted (Claude Fable session, 2026-07-31). Sources: Taiga project earned-governance-toolkit-accelerator, live workers.vc and linkedtrust.us/earnedgov pages, git logs of workers.vc / govkit / amebo / crm-outreach-runner since 7/10, /opt/shared/projects/Active/earnedgov/. Nothing here is a decision.