MI6'S VENTURE OPERATING SYSTEM - APPLIED DIRECTORY TO YOUR BUSINESS
Your business should work without you.
Venture Design Studio (VDS) is a dedicated 1:1 partnership — not consulting, not coaching. Mi6 embeds its proven methodology live in your venture. The outcome: a business that's transferable, sustainable, and sellable — whether you ever want to exit or not.
WHY VDS EXISTS
Your business needs you.
That's the problem.
77% of the entrepreneurs we've interviewed describe feeling stuck or not moving forward. Not because they're not working hard — because the venture is founder-dependent, and the founder is the ceiling.
The model isn't clear.
The business has grown, but the underlying logic hasn't been stress-tested. What's actually driving value — and what isn't — is unclear.
The systems aren't built.
The knowledge lives in your head. The processes live in your habits. The business can't run — or be sold — without you in it every day.
Growth has stalled.
The ceiling looks like a market problem. It's actually structural. You can't grow past yourself — and you're already in everything.
Exit options are limited.
Whenever that day comes — 2 years or 10 years — the business isn't transferable yet. That limits your options before you've even started looking.
A fractional hire addresses one function. VDS addresses the whole venture — the model, the systems, the growth engine, and the path to a business that works without you at the center of it.
WHO IT'S FOR
Three ways in.
One underlying problem.
The Builder
You've built before. Now you're building the next one. You need a co-founder level partner who brings methodology and execution capacity from day one — not someone to outsource to while you figure it out alone.
The Operator
You've got revenue. You've got a business. But the business needs you to run it. Growth has hit a ceiling you can't see past. The ceiling isn't the market — it's the fact that the business doesn't work without you.
The Exit Planner
You want out — not today, but in 3–10 years. The problem isn't finding a buyer. It's that the business isn't transferable yet. The institutional knowledge lives in your head. VDS moves it into the system.
ENGAGEMENT TIERS
Choose your mode.
The methodology is the same.
VDS engagements start at $2,500/month. Choose the mode that matches where you are and how deep you want to go
Tier 1
Do It With You
$2,500/month
You drive. Mi6 is the co-pilot. Bi-weekly sessions, frameworks applied live in your venture, async support between sessions. You do the work — with methodology that's been stress-tested in real businesses behind you.​
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✦ AREA 81 membership included
Tier 2
Do It For You
$5,000/month
Mi6 takes the wheel on specific workstreams. We build, execute, and deliver — not just advise. Weekly sessions. Hands-on execution capacity inside your business.
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✦ AREA 81 membership included
Tier 3
Do It As You
$7,500 - $10K/month
Co-founder level partnership. Mi6 is embedded in the venture. Equity participation. Reserved for ventures where deep, ongoing partnership creates the most value.
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✦ AREA 81 membership included
Month-to-month. 30-day cancellation. No lock-in.
THE OFFER
One month. Nothing to lose except the problem you came in with.
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Engage VDS for one month. Mi6 applies its Venture Operating System directly to your business — your model, your growth, your path to a venture that works without you at the center of it. Work a full month with a dedicated partner and live methodology. If after 30 days you don't believe this is the most valuable thing you're doing for your business, cancel. No penalty. No pitch to continue.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
The methodology. The partner. The system.
Venture Operating System (VOS)
Mi6's proven methodology, applied live in your venture across business model design, venture development, and growth.
ACTIVE CLIENTS
The work is live.
Every engagement is different. Same methodology. Here's what it looks like in practice.
DO IT AS YOU - TIER 3
Exit Entrepreneur
Experienced entrepreneur who sold previous business to Private Equity. Now building a new venture two sided marketplace for farmers and consumers. Co-founder level partnership from day one.
DO IT WITH YOU - TIER 2​​
Active Entrepreneurs
​Active entrepreneurs in need o regular sales leads while making the business transferable, sustainable, and sellable — without owner at the center of everything.
DO IT WITH YOU - TIER 1
Active Entrepreneurs
A 43-year family business. Focusing on revenue growth, operational systems, and exit optionality — on the owners' timeline.