Public scorecards, member-side
Charter Cohort 2026, 25 seats.
The Charter Cohort just opened. The first investors to claim a public seat are the founding members, 25 of 25 seats open. The wins ledger tracks the startups our methodology surfaced before fundraise. This page tracks the investors reading those signals. Public thesis. Public picks. Public scorecard. Pseudonymous handles welcome.
Start with the highest-intent routes
Use this page if you want the full charter-cohort system. But if your real question is how to join, how public receipts work, or whether the buyer workflow fits you, start with the sharper routes first.
Total seats
25
Claimed
0
Open
25
The board is empty because the cohort just opened. Every one of the 25 seats is still a founding seat, the people who claim them now are the names the later cohort reads. The Charter Cohort caps at 25 for 2026. Each seat ships a public profile page (this site, indexed by search engines and agent crawlers), inclusion in the Sunday Insider briefing, and a co-author byline on any methodology update the cohort participates in. Claim a seat → · See the live leaderboard →
What every charter seat ships with.
A public profile page
Your pseudonymous handle, your written thesis, your tracked picks, your rolling scorecard. Indexed by Google, surfaced in our /sitemap.xml, citable from external posts. The page is yours, it stays even if you cancel your subscription.
60d / 90d scorecard
Every pick you publish gets graded at the 60-day and 90-day windows against fundraise announcements or 4× sustained velocity. Hits, misses, and pendings are public. Brunson's rule: receipts beat testimonials.
Sunday Insider briefing co-author
When the cohort's collective picks include a confirmed hit that week, your handle appears in the Sunday Insider briefing as a co-spotter. The hit attribution is permanent and citable.
Anonymity-preserving by default
Pseudonymous handles welcome, same rule as @thedatanerd. Application form asks for a verifiable email + your chosen handle. Real name never required, never published.
Open seats, claim an archetype.
Templates illustrate the format. You write your own thesis.
Open seat
AI Infrastructure Angel
€5-25k checks into AI infra and agent runtimes. Reads the merge graph before the deck.
Open seat
Dev Tools Syndicate Lead
Pools €100-500k from a developer-syndicate into one breakout per month.
Open seat
Technical SaaS Scout
Scout-style mandate. €25-100k checks into B2B SaaS with public engineering signal.
Open seat
Data Infrastructure Partner
Small fund principal. €500k-2m checks into data, devtools, and verifiable compute.
How a charter seat works.
- 1.
Submit a 5-field application
Pseudonymous handle (or real name, your call), verifiable email, 2-4 sentence thesis, check-size band, sectors you track. The form is at /members/join. Takes about 4 minutes.
- 2.
48-hour written review
The founder reviews every charter application personally. You get a written reply inside 48 business hours, yes with a draft profile to confirm, or no with a written reason. No phone call. Anonymity-preserving.
- 3.
Profile ships to production
Once you confirm the draft, your /members/{handle} page goes live. It's static, indexed, hreflang-tagged, and includes Person + ProfilePage JSON-LD so search engines + AI agents can cite you.
- 4.
Publish picks weekly
Each pick is one GitHub org + a 1-sentence why. The 60-day and 90-day grading windows open automatically. Hits and misses are both public, that's the methodology rule.
- 5.
Sunday Insider briefing co-author
When a confirmed hit lands inside the cohort, the Sunday Insider briefing names the co-spotter. Permanent, citable, indexed.
Charter window
25 of 25 seats still open.
Once 25 charter seats are claimed, the cohort closes. New members can subscribe to the Dashboard or Insider tier, but charter status (co-author byline, locked founding rate, permanent profile) only ships to the first 25.
Related surfaces: /members/leaderboard (member ranking by 60d/90d hits) · /wins (startup-side track record) · /scorecard (the founder's rolling pick scorecard) · /manifesto (what we believe, who’s on the bus) · /identity (the seven shifts behind trusting earlier public signal).