A complete, executable studio design
Operating model, financial model, deal structure, governance — concise readouts you can act on, grounded in peer data.
Standing Up a New Studio
You're forming a studio and need a complete design you can build against.
Preparing to Raise
You need a coherent model and design to put in front of LPs.
Institutional Studio Design
A university or corporate parent needs a studio designed within its constraints.
From intake to actionable.
- 01
Kickoff
One conversation to capture your thesis, portfolio, team, and constraints. Easy to provide — we do the heavy lifting from there.
- 02
Structured discovery sessions
We design with you, not at you — including 2–5 short conversations with the people who hold the purse strings. Designs go nowhere without financial backing, so we hear directly from the champions and check-writers whose buy-in carries the model.
- 03
Your studio design
A complete, coherent studio design you can build against — delivered as concise executive summaries and readouts, walked through, and handed off.
Financials & Entity Structuring
- A complete financial model — fund structure, operating budget, and a 15-year return model
- Deal structure & equity policy — formation terms, cap table, decision authority
- Entity design — the legal structure your studio runs through
- For studios that already have their thesis and operating model
Complete Studio Design
- Business plan — thesis, market, and portfolio strategy
- Financial model — fund structure, operating budget, and a 15-year return model
- Deal structure & equity policy — formation terms, cap table, decision authority
- Operating model — org design, RACI, venture funnel, and operating rhythm
- Governance package — IC, expense, risk, and compliance policies
- The end-to-end design: thesis through operating rhythm
Every decision reflects how venture builders actually operate.
We've designed studio architectures for R1 universities and operating studios, and every decision in your design is grounded in the same venture-building corpus behind our benchmarks. You get concise executive summaries and readouts — clear inputs, decisions, and rationale you can act on.
- Every module of a studio, covered — thesis, financial architecture, deal structure, org and governance, operating rhythm.
- Every module resolved to the decisions underneath it — one Plan of Record, not a stack of slideware.
- The modules are designed together, so the design is coherent and optimized as a whole — the fund model, deal terms, and operating model all work together.
Built by operators who have designed and run these programs firsthand.
Trusted by Our Clients
“Their platform systematizes venture building; rather than relying on subjective advice, 9point8 has helped me ground every decision in proven frameworks and benchmarked intelligence. In less than one year working with 9point8, The Paradox Lab has grown from an idea to a fully formed venture studio - the first in our region.”