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 — 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.