A design studio worktable with drawings and material samples.
For founder led studios past proof of concept

Turn your
backlog into
an operating
system.

Six weeks to turn signed work into a 90 day operating system that protects the cash, the founder, and what comes next.

Explore the Intensive
6-week intensive Signed-work model Founder OS
The pattern

Booked
doesn't mean
healthy.

Strong years can still end tight. Cash arrives in waves, leaves in habits, and every big decision still waits on your gut.

The work can be proven while the machine behind it isn't.

The fit
01

The studio

Founder led.
Expert driven.
Seven figure signed work.

Proof
already exists.
02

The pattern

Strong years.
Tight endings.
Cash in waves.

Pressure
already exists.
03

The moment

A hire.
A lease.
A launch.
A new lane.

Decision
already coming.
The operating blueprint
The Offer & Roadmap Intensive
Signed work
What's coming
Money model
What it funds
Guardrails
What's safe
90-day roadmap
What runs
Founder OS
Who owns it

The plan gets assembled in six weeks. It runs long after.

What you walk out with
01

A money model
built on your
signed work.

Every project, deposit and install month mapped, so you can see which months carry the year and which months bite.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSep
DepositInstallFinal
Cash floor
02

Guardrails
with numbers
in them.

A cash floor, a coverage ratio, a draw ladder, and hire and lease gates. Rules you set once, so each decision stops being a fresh negotiation with yourself.

Cash floor$ ________
Coverage________ x
Owner draw$ ________
Hire gateopen / closed
Lease gateopen / closed
03

A 90-day
roadmap and a
Not Now List.

What runs, what waits, and the trigger that reopens each closed window. Light enough to actually run.

Now90 days
Run
Not now
New hirereopen at $____ cash
New leasereopen at ____x cover
New offerreopen after ________
04

Founder OS v0
and a
Decision Log.

What only you can do, what leaves your desk, and every major decision written down with a date, an owner, and a rule attached.

DecisionOwner · trigger
Hire PMFounder · $____ floor
New leaseFounder · ____x cover
Launch lane 02Team · core stable

Your numbers. Your rules.
Your operating system.

Built in your brand. Designed to stay after we're gone.

Money model
90-day roadmap
Decision log
Founder OS
The install
01Intake + kickoffTalk
02The intensive dayDecide
03InstallBuild
04InstallTest
05InstallRun
06InstallHandoff

One call, four questions to start. You talk, I take everything else away with me. The intensive day is prebuilt before you arrive; you never watch a blank page. You correct and decide, six decisions, logged.

One focus per week · one working session per week · something finished after every call

The system around the system
01Offer Suite BlueprintYour revenue lanes, defined.$2,500
02Draw & Comp ScenariosOwner pay against real cash.$2,000
03Proof PlanWhat gets shown and who owns it.$1,000
04Weekly + Monthly OSThe cadence that keeps everything alive.$1,500

These four pieces are what make the system stick after I'm gone. Your team knows what each lane is, how you get paid, how proof appears, and how to run the OS without me.

The off ramp

Two weeks
to know.

If you're not at least twice as clear on your next 90 days and the path to fixing your cash pattern after Week 2, stop there.

Keep everything we've built · pay only the first half · no hard feelings

Who runs it
Assad Siddiqi

This is CFO work without a CFO on payroll.

Assad Siddiqi · Founder / Operator

The work isn't bookkeeping and it isn't generic business coaching. It's an operator and finance lens applied to signed work, cash, founder decisions, and the next 90 days.

More about Assad →
The Offer & Roadmap Intensive

Six weeks.
One operatingsystem.

For founder led studios with proven work, real backlog, and consequential decisions coming next.

$15,000 · six weeks all in · 50% at start, 50% at Week 4 · 10 week extended track $20,000

Right now this system is re-architecting a seven figure design studio coming off its best year on record and heading into a cash tight quarter.

Start the conversation

A small number of Intensives at a time · or email assad@vicunaworks.com