An open letter to programme directors
An open letter
Dear programme director,
You ran a twelve-week programme. The founders helped each other more than the curriculum did — you know this, they know this, and the WhatsApp group where it happened is already losing signal. Within six weeks the best conversations are buried under logistics, memes and silence.
The knowledge those founders built together — the introductions, the answers, the patterns that worked — doesn't have a home. It's in a chat thread nobody will scroll back to, and the next cohort starts from scratch.
Every accelerator produces the same good answers to the same hard questions: how to negotiate a SAFE, how to run a first sales call, how to fire a co-founder. They are given once, to one cohort, and then they vanish. An archive that keeps every answer with its question, searchable, and there for the next cohort turns a twelve-week programme into a compounding asset. The knowledge your programme produces stops being disposable.
So this is what we are proposing: a room per cohort, carrying your programme's name and your rules, and an alumni room across cohorts. There is no fee during the Founding beta. It's infrastructure we'd like programmes to use, because the founders in them are exactly the people CHiiRO is built for.
What we'd ask is that the room is real — an actual cohort, actual founders, an actual programme. That you tell your cohort it exists and explain what it is. That you don't present it as something CHiiRO is paying you to do, because we aren't, and that framing would undermine both of us. And that you're honest with your founders about what CHiiRO is: early, small, and building.
No accelerator is using CHiiRO today. The infrastructure is built — communities, archive, join and removal controls, connection layer — but no programme has run a cohort through it yet. We're saying that plainly because you'd find out in the first conversation. The first programme to try it will shape what it becomes, which is either interesting to you or it isn't.
CHiiRO
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