Stealth Services · Enterprise

Your innovation lab, rebuilt as a studio.

For Fortune 500s, sovereign funds, and large institutions: license the Stealth Method™ inside your organization. We don't run another workshop. We build operating companies that ship — using the same five-phase system that produced our portfolio.

Now serving select enterprise partners · By invitation only

Why corporate innovation fails

Every F500 has an innovation lab. Almost none ship companies.

In the last 15 years, $400B+ has been spent on corporate innovation programs, accelerators, intrapreneurship initiatives, and "transformation labs." The result: a graveyard of decks, hackathon trophies, and pilot programs that died in procurement review.

The status quo

Traditional Corporate Innovation

  • Innovation theater — workshops, sprints, demo days, no companies
  • Internal IP locked in legal review for 18+ months
  • Talent trapped inside reporting structures that punish risk
  • No equity upside — best operators leave for venture-backed startups
  • "Proof of concept" purgatory — never reaches production
  • Sunk-cost programs renamed every 2 years to look fresh
The Stealth Method

Studio-as-a-Service

  • Real companies incorporated, capitalized, and shipped in <12 months
  • Joint venture structure — your IP protected, separate cap table
  • External operating talent from our 600+ company bench
  • Equity participation drives operator velocity
  • Production launch is the deliverable, not a slide deck
  • Same playbook that produced our 18-company portfolio
The full stack

Everything required to ship a real operating company.

When you engage Stealth Services, you don't get a consulting team. You get the same operating infrastructure that runs our internal portfolio — talent, capital, brand, ops, distribution — turnkey under your roof.

01

Thesis development

We surface 8–12 venture-grade opportunities adjacent to your existing business, rank them by market timing, strategic fit, capital efficiency, and likelihood of scale.

02

Founding team sourcing

Operators from our 600+ company alumni pipeline — vetted, ranked, deployed. You get founders who've shipped, not loyalists with no operating reps.

03

Legal + capital structure

Joint venture LLC or C-Corp with you as anchor LP. Your IP licensed in cleanly. Separate cap table. Lawyers, CPAs, banking, payroll — wired day one.

04

Brand + product build

Domain, logo, identity system, marketing site, MVP product. Same studio team that built every brand in our portfolio. 4–6 weeks to live.

05

Customer pipeline

Pre-launch waitlist, pilot customer commitments, ABM sales playbook. Stealth's distribution network plus your enterprise relationships, leveraged.

06

Recruiting infrastructure

Forkaia® pipeline (1,000+ universities, 600+ company employer network) plugged in. Your new company hires faster than any pure startup could.

07

Operating cadence

Weekly metrics review with the Stealth operating team. Monthly board with you. Same accountability we run internally — surfaced cleanly to your stakeholders.

08

Exit optionality

Roll into your balance sheet, spin out to outside capital, sell to a strategic, or run independently. All paths preserved by design from incorporation forward.

Engagement tiers

Three ways to deploy the Studio.

Pick the depth of partnership that matches your strategic stakes. All three engagements include the same operating infrastructure — the difference is duration, deal structure, and the number of companies produced.

Tier 01
$250K
12-week engagement

Diagnostic + Thesis

For corporates exploring whether the studio model fits before deeper commitment. End deliverable: a 60-page playbook of vetted venture opportunities ranked and scored.

  • 4-week strategic audit of existing innovation program
  • 8–12 ranked venture theses with market sizing
  • Operator talent bench shortlist (3 candidates per top thesis)
  • Capital + legal structuring recommendations
  • Final board presentation + 12-month build roadmap
Inquire about diagnostic →
Tier 03
$5M+
36-month engagement · 3–5 companies

Embedded Studio

Stealth runs an embedded studio inside your enterprise for three years, producing 3–5 new operating companies across your strategic priorities. Most senior engagement.

  • Stealth operating partner embedded at C-suite level
  • 3–5 new venture builds across program lifecycle
  • Shared umbrella JV vehicle for portfolio governance
  • Custom internal talent academy (Forkaia® licensing)
  • Quarterly board reporting + annual portfolio review
  • Right of first refusal on any spin-outs from your existing R&D
Discuss embedded studio →

All engagements include Stealth's full operating infrastructure · No additional staffing fees · Equity terms negotiable per engagement

How the engagement runs

Six phases. Sequenced for production launch.

A Stealth Services engagement follows the same staged process we run internally for our own venture builds — adapted for the constraints of a corporate sponsor.

Phase 01 · Weeks 1–4

Strategic audit

We review your existing innovation program, R&D pipeline, IP portfolio, and operating constraints. Output: a 360-degree picture of what you have and where the venture-grade opportunities are hiding.

Phase 02 · Weeks 5–8

Thesis selection

We surface 8–12 venture theses, rank them on capital efficiency, market timing, and strategic fit. You and Stealth jointly select the build target.

Phase 03 · Weeks 9–14

Founder recruitment

Three candidates per priority thesis sourced from our 600+ alumni bench. Interviews, references, decision. CEO signed on equity-first terms.

Phase 04 · Weeks 15–22

Incorporation + brand

JV LLC formed, IP licensed, cap table issued, bank account opened. Brand identity, marketing site, and MVP product shipped during this phase.

Phase 05 · Weeks 23–36

Pilot customers

Design partners onboarded, pricing validated, first $100K+ in committed pilot revenue. The company crosses from "incorporation" to "operating company."

Phase 06 · Weeks 37–52

Standalone hand-off

Company reaches autonomous operating velocity. Stealth transitions from build mode to board oversight. Year-one outcomes review with you and your stakeholders.

Strategic fit

Who this is for. And who it isn't.

Stealth Services is a senior-stakes engagement. We work with a small number of partners per year and only when there is real strategic alignment, capital, and executive sponsorship in place.

Strong fit

The right partner profile

  • Fortune 500 enterprise with $2B+ revenue, real innovation budget
  • Sovereign or family office deploying capital into strategic operating businesses
  • Industrial conglomerate spinning out IP from existing R&D
  • Regional government economic development authority funding ventures
  • Universities operationalizing IP transfer at scale
  • Executive sponsor at C-1 level willing to defend the program internally
Poor fit

When to skip this engagement

  • Looking for a hackathon partner or one-off ideation workshop
  • Need a CMO-style brand campaign with no real venture intent
  • Budget below $250K — the diagnostic is the smallest engagement
  • Want pure consulting deliverable (slides, frameworks, reports)
  • No executive sponsor, governance roadblock culture
  • Expectation that Stealth will give up equity participation in builds
Engagement profiles

Three live engagements. Anonymized for confidentiality.

All current Stealth Services engagements are subject to confidentiality. The profiles below describe scope and outcomes without identifying the partner enterprise.

Tier 02 · Single Venture Build

Fortune 100 logistics group

We were brought in to spin out a last-mile fulfillment platform built on internal IP that had been stuck in pilot review for 3 years. Within 11 months: JV incorporated, CEO recruited from our portfolio, MVP shipped, 4 enterprise pilots signed worth $2.1M ARR pipeline.

"The IP was sitting on a shelf inside legal for years. Stealth had a CEO running production code in 90 days."
Engagement11 monthsPilot ARR$2.1M
Tier 03 · Embedded Studio

Sovereign wealth fund · MENA

36-month embedded engagement to produce 3 venture-backed companies in industrial software, energy infrastructure, and applied AI. Currently in Year 2. One company already spun out with outside Series A at $42M post.

"They don't run a workshop. They build a company. That's the only thing that matters at our scale."
Year of programYear 2/3Spin-outs1 (so far)
Tier 01 · Diagnostic + Thesis

Public university research institute

12-week diagnostic of 38 research projects across the institute's technology transfer pipeline. Output: 7 ranked venture theses, 14 vetted founding CEO candidates, full capital structuring playbook handed to the institute's board.

"We finally have a real shortlist of opportunities our tech transfer office can act on. Three are already in incorporation."
Diagnostic length12 weeksVentures spawned3 (in flight)
Frequently asked

What partners need to know.

How is this different from a corporate accelerator or a McKinsey innovation engagement?

Accelerators run programmatic cohorts and produce slide decks. Consulting firms write strategy and walk away. Stealth Services builds a real operating company — incorporated, capitalized, staffed, and shipping product. The deliverable is a balance sheet asset, not a recommendation report. Compare on outcomes: how many of the last 100 consulting engagements produced an operating subsidiary you can point to? Almost zero. We have a multi-year track record of doing exactly that.

Who owns the IP and the new company?

Standard structure: a JV LLC where you contribute IP and capital, Stealth contributes operating infrastructure and management. You typically hold 60–80% of the cap table, Stealth holds 8–15% common equity for operating support, the founding team takes a standard 10–20% employee pool. Terms are negotiated per engagement based on contribution mix. You retain all rights to existing IP; new IP created during the build is owned by the JV.

What happens if the build doesn't succeed?

Tier 02 includes a clear go/no-go gate at Month 6. If the venture fails to hit defined milestones — pilot customers, talent integration, technical viability — the JV is unwound, IP returns to you, and the engagement concludes without additional fees. Roughly 1 in 4 internal Stealth builds historically does not make it past Month 6. We treat that as a feature, not a bug.

Can we co-invest alongside Stealth in our own JV?

Yes — and most Tier 02 and Tier 03 partners do. The typical structure is you as anchor LP (60–80%), Stealth Fund I as co-LP (10–15%), and the founding team as common equity holders (10–20%). This creates aligned incentives across all three parties and signals seriousness to outside follow-on investors when the company later raises a Series A.

How long is the typical sales cycle to start a Tier 02 engagement?

From initial conversation to signed engagement: 8–14 weeks. The cycle involves three executive briefings, a thesis-fit assessment, and JV term negotiation. Tier 01 diagnostics can start in 3–4 weeks.

Is there a geographic or sector limit on what Stealth Services will engage?

We work globally. Sector-wise, our strongest reps are in industrial software, fintech infrastructure, applied AI, marketplaces, and operational SaaS. We will pass on engagements in deep biotech, hardware-heavy semiconductor plays, or regulated pharma — those require specialist studios we are happy to recommend.

What does "by invitation only" actually mean?

We accept 4–6 new engagements per year across all three tiers combined. The page exists publicly so prospective partners can self-qualify, but every engagement begins with a direct introduction or a vetted inbound. The constraint is operating bandwidth — we do not believe in scaling this faster than we can run with our existing team.

Will Stealth take meetings with our internal innovation team before deciding?

Yes. A typical Tier 02 sales cycle includes one executive briefing with your CEO or COO, one technical session with your CTO and head of innovation, and one commercial discussion with corporate development or strategy. We do not pitch via deck — we run a working session.

If you've been burned
by corporate innovation, talk to us.

Stealth Services is for institutions that have already tried the workshops, the accelerators, and the consulting decks — and want to skip directly to operating companies that ship. Reach out for a confidential briefing.

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