Founder residency
SOTI brings founders, builders and operators into the same house for one focused week. Everyone keeps working on their own company, product or craft, but the environment changes: more honest feedback, more useful introductions, more repeated context, and more chances for the right conversation to happen without forcing it.
The house format creates repeated, low-friction moments: morning work blocks, late dinners, walks, demos and conversations that compound over the week. Trust forms faster when people see how others think, work and behave outside a formal pitch setting.
SOTI is not a school or a generic escape. Residents bring their own work, company, research, product or obsession and use the week to move it forward. The house adds context, pressure and support without pretending everyone should work on the same thing.
The value comes from who is in the room: people with agency, taste, technical curiosity, generosity and a bias toward making things real. SOTI optimizes for density and fit, not for maximizing headcount.
A strong residency does not isolate itself from the city. Depending on the edition, the week can include office visits, salons, dinners or local builder rooms. The difference is that people return to the same home base and turn outside events into shared context.
Accepted members receive a pre-house operating pack with cohort context, a draft agenda, house norms and useful links. That pre-work matters: it helps people arrive knowing who is around them, what the week can unlock and how to make their asks clearer.
The point is not just seven intense days. A good founder residency should leave behind trust, intros, sharper ideas and relationships that still feel warm after everyone flies home. SOTI treats the week as the start of a longer network, not a disposable event.
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FAQ
A founder residency is a short, selected living-and-working format where founders spend several days together while building their own projects and relationships. The format creates trust through repeated context, not one-off networking.
No. SOTI does not run a fixed curriculum or take equity. It is closer to a high-trust temporary home for serious builders than to a traditional accelerator batch.
Founders, builders and operators who care about craft, community and doing real work around other high-agency people. The best fits bring both momentum and generosity.
Yes. The format is designed around real work. You can take calls, ship product, write, hire, fundraise or operate while using the house for feedback, context and useful collisions.
Selection is based on fit for the specific edition: what people are building, what they can contribute, what they are looking for, and whether the room becomes stronger with them in it.