Pre-incubation
Twelve months, twelve modules, one working business
A year-long pre-incubation cohort for a region that has talent and no local path to use it. Participants arrive with no idea, no team and no code. They leave with a product and a paying customer.
The format
- 12
- months
- 12
- modules
- 90
- minutes per module
- 3
- in-person gatherings
Modules 1 and 12 run longer than 90 minutes. Cohort size and fee are set per engagement.
Where this sits
Below incubation
It sits under the incubation infrastructure a technology park already operates, and above nothing, because at present nothing exists below it.
It feeds, it does not compete
Not an accelerator. Teams that are ready get routed into national accelerators. The rest are not treated as failures.
Revenue that stays
Most technology programs convert regional talent into an outcome that exists in the capital. This one converts talent into revenue that stays in the region.
The twelve modules
In-person modules: 1, 4 and 12. Everything else runs online.
Field Day
Participants leave the building. They talk to real business owners in their own city, in their own language, and come back with one problem a named person actually has. Products get built for customers who already exist. A hackathon can be bought locally. This cannot.
Four outcomes, measured separately
Accelerator pipeline
Teams routed into national accelerators. Measured by applications submitted and interviews reached, not places won.
Service businesses
Participants launch service businesses for regional tourism, agriculture and trade. Measured by participants with a first paying customer.
Technical placement
Graduates placed into resident companies, incoming regional offices, or remote roles. Measured by placements.
Local facilitators
Participants who convert on none of the above are trained and paid to run the next cohort. This is what lets year two run without us in the room.
Each track reports on its own clock. Assessing all four at month three shows two empty columns and reads as failure.
What we need from the host
Host provides
- Venue for the three in-person modules
- Participant recruitment and announcement
- Internet and equipment
- Introductions to local businesses
Shipin provides
- Program design and all twelve modules
- Mentors and specialists
- AI tool credits
- Selection and participant management
- Content and media
- Final written report
Built for one region at a time
The same method, the same facilitators and the same language carry to the next region. The first instance is the proof, not the destination.