FAQs

The questions founders actually ask.

Short answers, no sales language. If yours is not here, the intro call is the fastest way to get it answered.

What exactly is SPECTRUM?

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One integrated FoodTech Scaling System: a proprietary playbook that defines the critical path, an AI platform (ScaleOS) that accelerates execution, experienced operators (ScalePartners) who work alongside you, and compensation partly tied to your milestones. Not a consultancy, not a tool subscription: one system.

Who is it for?

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Foodtech founders and CEOs with a controlled-environment ingredient, for example fermentation-based, who have raised first funding. Typically between seed and Series B: the stretch where technology is proven but scaling is not.

What happens in the intro call?

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A short conversation about where you stand: your stage, your open gate, and what is binding you. We tell you honestly whether a ScaleMap makes sense for you. No commitment, no deck, no pressure.

What is a ScaleMap?

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Your readiness across every critical dimension, scored from your own dataroom, plus the milestone gates and a 12 to 24 month roadmap. One document your team, board and investors can finally read the same way. It is a focused sprint, not a months-long consulting study.

Why not a consultancy, or a senior hire?

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A strategy boutique bills for time, delivers a report and leaves; we are operators inside your workspace, with upside tied to your milestones, at a materially lower cost than a boutique engagement. A senior in-house hire takes months to find, is expensive and risky, and is deep on one part of the puzzle. With SPECTRUM you get the whole bench from day one.

Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude?

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ScaleOS runs the same frontier models, but for this job it is far more accurate and relevant. It works from proprietary data a public model has never seen: a scored investor database, CDMO and manufacturing partner intelligence, and benchmarks from real scaling journeys. Its agentic workflows are designed by operators who have done this, briefed from your own dataroom, and some run for hours to produce a deliverable, not a chat reply. And a person validates the output before it steers a decision.

What happens with our data?

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Every company works in a private, encrypted dataroom, isolated by design. Your documents are never mixed with anyone else's, never used to train models, and every claim the platform makes cites the source it came from.

How does "real skin in the game" work?

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A relatively low fixed fee, plus upside linked to the milestones we agree on together. The exact structure depends on your stage and situation, and we put it on the table in the first conversation, not the last one.

Do you invest in the companies you work with?

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We are not a fund and we do not lead rounds. Our alignment comes from milestone-linked compensation, and our job is to make you fundable: readiness, evidence and a story your next round can verify.

Where do you work?

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We are based in Europe and work with foodtech ventures internationally. The platform is remote-first; the working sessions happen where they are most useful.

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