Founders Compass Institute™ - The Research Home of Founder Readiness™

Advancing the science of clarity, resilience, and decision quality in entrepreneurship – so founders, investors, and ecosystems can trust the signal, not the hype.

Consent-first. Private by default. No resale of personal data. Dive Circles are never recorded.

Every venture rises - or falls - on the founder’s clarity under pressure.

When stress floods the brain, the prefrontal cortex - your “CEO” circuitry for judgment and creativity - goes offline. Decision debt piles up. Culture frays.

We built the Founders Compass Institute™ to fix that: defining and measuring the human operating system behind sustainable entrepreneurship.

Before I worked on myself, I kept trying to fix the business. Once I stabilized, everything else followed.

Turning Founder Experience into Measurable Science.

1

Research

Aggregated insights from thousands of founders to identify which inner skills improve clarity and decision quality under pressure.

2

Standards

The Founder Readiness Index™ – a living benchmark defining what “ready” looks like across industries and stages.

3

Certification

Frameworks and ethics that qualify practitioners and institutions to deliver readiness programs responsibly.

The World’s First Benchmark for the Human Behind the Venture

 The Founder Readiness Index™ combines insights from the Founder Readiness Assessment™ and other research measures to map how inner mastery drives real-world outcomes.

Derived from anonymized data, it reveals where founders stand on the inner journey – and how readiness connects to traction, team health, and fundraising results.

Annual ecosystem report and comparative dashboards.

Cross-sector trends on decision quality and stress resilience.

Open methodology for transparency and replication.

Build the Future of Founder Development with Us

We collaborate with universities, accelerators, and venture funds to integrate Founder Readiness™ into their ecosystems. Partners gain access to insights, benchmarks, and training that elevate both founders and outcomes.

Academic Partners

Co-design validated studies and co-author research.

Accelerators & Funds

Use the FRA and Index to strengthen portfolios and de-risk founder failure.

Science Without Exploitation

Our research is built on the same integrity we ask of founders:

Private by default and consent-first.

IRB-ready methods and transparent standards.

Data governance aligned with global research ethics.

Trust isn’t a metric - it’s the foundation of every great decision. That’s why we protect it in everything we do.

Learn - Research That Feels Human and Works in the Field

Explore applied research and plain-English briefs from the Institute in our Learn section – from neuroscience-backed practices to communication standards that protect trust.

Join the Movement Defining the Human Side of Entrepreneurship

Founder Readiness™ is becoming the standard language for how we grow resilient leaders and healthier companies.

Be part of the research that shapes it.