Two days to see what you can no longer see alone.
A collective diagnostic cabinet for 10 to 15 selected founders. No slides. No theory. Your company laid bare as a system — to isolate the single point that's really holding it back.
A day and a half won't be enough to learn the method. It will be enough to find your blocking point.
You are the only constant element of your company. That's why you can't see the breakdown anymore.
Technology evolves, customers change their minds, competition shifts, the team transforms. Everything moves — except you. By living inside the system, you end up confusing the symptom with the cause. The real problem stays where no one looks for it: in the founder's head, never formulated.
A company is a system. It doesn't break by a part — it breaks by an interaction.
Eight categories, thirty-four elements, interlocked like gears. A poorly resolved Target derails pricing, which derails go-to-market, which derails retention. The cascade is silent, and it's everywhere.
Foundations
Founders, purpose, vision, team, culture.
Value
Problem, competition, point of view, value proposition.
Target
Positioning, market segment, timing.
Product
Product vision, roadmap, entry barrier, experience.
Reach
Go-to-market, distribution.
Usage
Adoption, retention, monetization.
Playbook
Analytics, proof-driven management.
Scale
Financing, scaling up.
The right question is never "which gear is weak?" but "which one, once fixed, unlocks all the others?"
What this seminar is not.
You don't come to learn.
You come to diagnose your own company, with a method proven on hundreds of startups. What you leave with are conclusions about your case — not concepts.
The only material is your company.
No deck to follow. We work on your numbers, your deals, your real positioning. The room is a workshop, not a lecture hall.
It's a peer council.
Ten to fifteen founders at the same stage, who challenge each other without complacency and with a common language. No one is there to flatter you.
Two days, one single objective: isolate your limiting factor.
Map the system, locate the break.
We make your company readable, then we look for where it creaks.
- You score your 8 categories on three axes: explicit, coherent, proven.
- Your peers challenge you, question after question, to separate what you claim from what your evidence shows.
- You trace the interactions that no longer fit together — the hidden cascade.
- You formulate a first hypothesis: your limiting factor.
Put the hypothesis to the test, leave with a plan.
We verify that you're treating the cause, not the symptom.
- The cohort pressure-tests your diagnosis in session — no filter.
- We go from symptom to root cause, with two-level questions.
- We transform the conclusion into a testable experiment, not another answer.
- You leave with a continuous diagnostic ritual — to stop flying blind.
Four concrete things, on the evening of the second day.
Your limiting factor, isolated.
The single point constraining your growth today — named, formulated, shared.
Your riskiest belief.
The hypothesis on which everything rests, ready to be tested rather than assumed.
A continuous diagnostic ritual.
A cadence to re-score your system and detect drift before it costs.
A handful of peers.
Founders who now know your system — and who hold you accountable.
Small by requirement, not by comfort.
Peer diagnosis only has value if the peers understand each other. That's why each cohort is small, selected, and homogeneous in stage. You apply; I select.
Led by Pierre Gaubil
Founder of 34 Elements
Twenty years of entrepreneurship, business angel and General Partner in early-stage funds, including several years in California. Creator of the 34 Elements framework, tested on hundreds of startups in transformation. His method doesn't teach what to think — it teaches how to diagnose yourself continuously, like a doctor follows a patient over time.
Author of Startup Unlocked — The No-Nonsense Method to Fix What's Holding You Back.
Invest in clarity.
First 6 registrations
Regular rate
Includes 2 days of intensive seminar, all materials, lunches, and follow-up.
You know something is blocking. Come name it.
Sessions are intentionally small and by selection. Submit your application for the next cohort.