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When a values-driven founder approached Harms with two potential business ideas, each rooted in personal experience but vastly different market dynamics, she wasn’t seeking encouragement. She needed decision clarity, structural rigor, and a viable path to launch.
In just six weeks, Harms helped pressure-test both concepts, validate the winning model, and architect a fully operational service business, from brand and pricing to delivery systems and client experience.
It was an operational buildout grounded in the founder’s mission and structured through deliberate decision architecture and real-world market fit.
In just under six weeks, Harms transformed founder insight into a fully operational market-validated service venture. The engagement spanned from early-stage business planning through to go-to-market readiness, integrating brand strategy, program design, policy infrastructure, and delivery systems.
By anchoring the venture in both purpose and practicality, Harms ensured it launched not just with visual assets but with structural clarity, salable workflows, and a cohesive client experience, ready to operate from day one.
This was a Startup Launch Kit engagement, our Build-tier solution for founders with clarity and purpose, but no operating infrastructure.
While most Harms client partners are scaling leadership teams, the Startup Launch Kit is a limited-availability offering, used selectively to support founders whose work aligns with our ethos: a commitment to designing systems that serve people, scale with integrity, and hold under pressure.
Too often, founders bring deep domain fluency, but no structural path to deliver it. This engagement wasn’t about teaching someone how to do the work. It was about building the business engine that could carry it.
Harms translated her instinct into mechanics, delivering a business that could operate with autonomy, sustainability, and brand resonance from day one.
This engagement wasn’t about incremental improvements, it was about starting from zero and building a business system from the ground up.
In under six weeks, a values driven concept became an operational business. Fully equipped, structurally sound and ready to deliver.
Not every founder needs funding or a team to build something viable. What they need is clarity, structure, and the right architecture to build a model for scale.
At Harms, we turn founder insight into systems that scale. Whether launching something new, or rebuilding from the ground up, the same truth holds: With the right architecture, traction isn’t a matter of chance. It’s a matter of design.
Time-to-shift: <6 weeks.
Author: Jesse Harms, President
Human-led. AI-assisted. Always accountable.
#Tier(s): Build
#engagement name(s): Startup Launch Kit
#Sector: Education, Neurodivergent-Led Ventures, Women and Bipoc Led Ventures
#Competencies: Execution Architecture, Continuity Design and Organizational Reset
