The Tempest Two · Summit for Founders
We train Founders for the moments that break most people.
Six months. 8 to 15 founders put forward by one fund. Under real pressure.
Pressure is the curriculum.
Adaptability is trained. Not taught.
Built for founders who are already in it.
01 · The problem
The plan you raised on is obsolete by the next board meeting.
Markets move overnight. AI rewrites the product faster than the roadmap. Runway shortens. The founders who win are not the ones who know the most. They are the ones who adapt fastest, stay clear under pressure and keep their team moving when the map runs out.
The biggest risk to a company is rarely the market. It is a capable founder who freezes, defers or defends the old plan at the exact moment the company needs something new. You cannot read your way to courage. You cannot pitch your way to calm.
02 · Who runs it
Earned. Not read.
Tom Caulfield and James Whittle. A hurricane in a rowing boat mid-Atlantic. 3,000ft up El Capitan on a rope. Over a decade turning what works at the edge into how ambitious teams operate. Founders already live with uncertainty. We train them to use it.
03 · The programme
Six months. One standard.
6
Months
8-15
Founders per fund
4
Steps in the monthly loop
1
Shared summit
Each investor puts forward 8 to 15 founders. One fund, one cohort. The same backer, the same clock, the same stakes.
01
Learn
A focused 90 minute workshop. One framework, applied to your company, not a case study.
02
Apply
Commit to a real challenge in front of the cohort. Then do it, in the business, that month.
03
Check-in
A one to one mid-month, while the challenge is live. The moment most programmes lose people.
04
Reflect
Back with the cohort. What happened, what it cost, what changes now.
Six times over. That is how insight becomes instinct.
Six months. Six capabilities.
Performing under pressure
Clear and decisive when runway, investors and team all want something at once.
High-performing habits
Systems that hold when motivation, and sleep, run out.
Personal agency
Driver, not passenger. Own the outcome, not the circumstances.
Leading with courage
The hard call. The hard conversation. With a co-founder, a board, a hire.
Navigating uncertainty
Strong calls on incomplete data. Adjust fast. Keep moving.
Leading others through change
Carry a team through a pivot, a raise, a bad quarter.
The shared summit
One hard thing. Taken on together.
Alongside the six months, one challenge hosted by The Tempest Two. Founding is lonely. This turns a group of founders into a cohort that has been through something real, and stays in each other's phones long after.
04 · What changes
The fixed point the company steers by.
Freezes when pressure lands
→Holds their nerve and makes the call
Waits for certainty
→Decides on incomplete information, then adjusts
Reacts to whatever the week throws
→Owns the outcome and drives it
Avoids the hard conversation
→Steps into it on purpose
Protects themselves when it gets ugly
→Becomes the fixed point the team steers by
05 · The investment
£5,000
Per founder · 8 to 15 per fund · from £40,000
Kickoff offsite, six workshops, monthly challenges and one to ones, the shared summit, and every framework to keep. In person or virtual. A rounding error next to one founder who stalls mid-raise.
The founders who adapt fastest win. We build them.
Worked with founders and teams who cannot afford to flinch.
