Who is in the room, and who is not

The buyer is a named founder who can decide budget and messaging on a thirty-minute call. If that person cannot be produced, we do not have a client. Anonymous teams, “the community will vote on the narrative,” and agencies that want us to white-label a pad are all, in different ways, the wrong buyer.

Our side, at this stage of the house, is founder-led sales and strategy, then a delivery lead who owns the pack. Specialists are pulled through the partner directory. We do not pretend to be your law firm, your auditor, or your cloud. The Sprint is coordination plus the written artefacts. Coordination without artefacts is consulting theatre.

The thirty-minute qualification call that precedes the proposal is a script: product evidence, launch date, budget, counsel, token status, geographies, who decides. If they want RCA Pad to run a public sale, we stop. The proposal that follows within twenty-four hours names objective, owner, scope, exclusions, inputs, timeline, acceptance criteria, compliance triggers, KPIs. It is a document, not a vibe.

After deposit, the founder still has a job. They provide artefacts, they approve claims, they attend kick-off, they do not freelance a new geography on social. Teams that treat the Sprint as an outsourcing of their own decision-making will have a polite read-out and a thin pack. The house cannot want the launch more than the issuer does.