New Built on how high-growth companies get unstuck

Cork finds the work that moves your company.

Your personal business mentor who knows how you work and what your business needs from you. Talk through your stream of consciousness, and let Cork filter the noise into high-leverage execution.

Set up in 3 minutes14 days free, no cardTalk, don't type

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Your battlefield

Seed · Founder & CEO
MRR growthRunway
Stuck loopMovingBest moveClosed
You, 2 min voice note
"…honestly I'm still the one closing every deal, and the two AEs we hired are just shadowing me. And the board deck is due Friday and I haven't…"
Best move today

Let Maya run Thursday's demo

Founder-led sales ceiling. You are the bottleneck in the one loop the stage needs most: repeatable sales.

Lead itMarketAndy Grove
Drop this week

Rewriting the onboarding copy yourself. Watch it, don't do it.

The patterns behind Cork come from the operators founders already read

Andy GrovePaul GrahamSteve JobsCharlie MungerRay Dalio
3 minof talking is enough for a first map
4 zonesTeam, Product, Market, Capital
1 movethe highest-leverage thing to do next

Getting unstuck should not take a weekend offsite.

No templates, no OKR software. You talk. Cork maps the loops you are in and picks the one move that matters.

  1. 1
    Talk it out

    Say everything on your mind about the business. Half sentences are fine.

  2. 2
    See your battlefield

    Every loop lands in Team, Product, Market or Capital, by how much you control it.

  3. 3
    Unblock the best move

    The real blocker, one action under 30 minutes, and what to stop doing.

Recording · 2:14

"…honestly I'm still the one closing every deal, and the two AEs we hired are just shadowing me. The board deck is due Friday and I haven't…"

Your battlefield
Next action · 25 min

Write Maya a one-page brief for Thursday. You sit in, muted.

Done when Maya has the brief and the demo is on her calendar.
Stop doing Taking every first call yourself.

Every loop has a place. Most of them are not yours.

Top half is your company, bottom half the world around it. The rings say what you can actually move.

Team. Hiring, delegating, the co-founder, the meeting that should be a decision.

Too busy to hire, understaffed to stopGrove
Every decision routes through youDalio

Product. Is there value, are we shipping it.

Roadmap thrash after every callJobs
Building for the loudest customerGraham

Capital. Cash, runway, investors.

Runway fogMunger
Fundraise eating the quarterDalio

Market. Fit, growth, positioning. Which game are we playing.

Founder-led sales ceilingGraham
Ten channels, none workingGrove
And three rings.Do it · only you can move itLead it · moves through peopleWatch it · outside your control

Same chaos, different best move.

Your role

Founder & CEO, technical co-founder, operator or executive.

Your stage

From finding the problem to scaling the operating system.

Your KPIs

The two or three numbers the business needs you to move.

Your patterns

The loops you fall into again, learned from every talk.

"Revenue is fine. Your Tuesday is not."
The founder Cork is built for

Start today. No cohort, no waiting list.

Founder

For founders who want their week back

14 daysfree, no card
  • Unlimited talks, voice or text
  • Your battlefield map, updated after every talk
  • Unblock any loop with five mentor lenses
  • Tuned to your role, stage and KPIs
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Teams

For founding and leadership teams

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  • Everything in Founder
  • One map across co-founders
  • A 1:1 session with a coach
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Pricing comes before your trial ends. Nothing is charged without your yes.

Frequently asked questions.

What is Cork?

Cork is a business mentor in your pocket. You talk about your work, Cork turns it into a map of the loops you are in, and tells you the highest-leverage move you can make next.

What is a loop?

A loop is anything that keeps coming back: a hire you keep postponing, a deal only you can close, a decision that lands on your desk every week. Cork marks each one as stuck, moving or closed.

Why talk instead of type?

Because the useful sentence is usually the fifth one. Speaking gets past the tidy version you would write down, and Cork does the filtering.

Where do the mentor lenses come from?

From the published thinking of operators founders already study, such as Andy Grove on management leverage or Paul Graham on doing things that don't scale. They are lenses, not endorsements, and none of these people are involved with Cork.

Is my data private?

Your talks are yours. They are used to build your map and nothing else.

What happens after 14 days?

You keep your map. We will tell you the price before your trial ends, and nothing is charged without you saying yes.

Something else? Email us.

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