Yail.ForgeAheadv1.0

Pitch your venture.
We'll pressure-test it.

Register, describe your idea or upload a deck, and ForgeAhead plays it back in plain English, sizes the market and asks the questions that matter. Attach supporting documents as they come to hand, and answer the assumptions it made once a run finishes — refining with you until it's ready to put in front of YAIL.

Discover

Validate

Build

Launch

Scale

Sample venture

Ardent

Card 4 of 7 · "Run 5 customer interviews" · due Friday

Start your first venture

A 60-second setup. Pick a track, name it, invite the team.

Pick a stage-gate template

SaaS · Marketplace · Hardware · Custom (5 stages, 7 cards each)

Name your venture

Codename works fine — change it any time.

Add a founder & an operator

Identity invites them via the org you've already configured.

Schedule weekly forge review

A 30-minute checkpoint that aligns with the gate cadence.

The five stages

Each stage opens with cards, closes with a gate review.

01 · Discover

Frame the problem & the customer.

Customer interviews, problem framing, market sizing, founder fit. Outputs a one-page brief.

02 · Validate

Prove demand before you build.

Smoke tests, landing pages, pre-orders, letters of intent. Gate: signal beats noise.

03 · Build

Smallest thing that solves it.

Scoped MVP, paid pilot, Yail.Tasks for delivery, Yail.Connect for integrations.

04 · Launch

Ship to your first 100.

Pricing, onboarding, support runbook, first 30-day retention. Gate: paying customers.

05 · Scale

Repeatable growth.

CAC/LTV, hiring plan, revenue forecast, governance. Promote out of the foundry.

Replay

Learn across ventures.

Retro any stage; mine patterns into your next playbook. Compounds with every run.

Pitch your venture.We'll pressure-test it.