AskStratos — Strategic clarity in 48-72 hours

Strategic clarity for founders

Ask the hard strategic question. Get the answer you can act on.

Not a chatbot's guess — a consulting-grade, framework-driven answer to the one decision that matters right now. Document + deck, in 48-72 hours. $0 (founding access) or $249 (Pro, September).

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For founders at inflection points

Ask Stratos the question keeping you up at night — high-stakes decisions where conviction is non-negotiable. Entering a market, responding to competition, repricing, or planning next year's strategy. We give you the analysis framework. You bring the domain knowledge. Together, you move forward clear-eyed.

Stratos is for you if:

  • ✓ You're facing a market entry decision
  • ✓ A competitor is forcing a strategic response
  • ✓ You're repricing your product or service
  • ✓ You're considering a pivot
  • ✓ You're pitching investors soon
  • ✓ You need the analysis in days, not months

Stratos is not:

  • ✗ A chatbot or AI thinking partner
  • ✗ A workshop or implementation guide
  • ✗ A substitute for domain expertise
  • ✗ A consulting engagement with follow-up
  • ✗ Real-time decision support

Stratos produces a deliverable — a document and a deck — that you share with your board, advisors, or team.

Stratos gives you the map. You decide the path.

What you get

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Strategic Document

~12,000 words of structured analysis grounded in your market, geography, competitive set, and stage. We run your decision through 10+ industry-proven frameworks — Porter's Five Forces, value chain analysis, SWOT, Blue Ocean positioning, jobs-to-be-done, and more — and synthesize the insights into a single coherent recommendation.

  • ✓ Competitive landscape & positioning
  • ✓ Market and customer dynamics
  • ✓ Your strategic options
  • ✓ Risk assessment & contingencies
  • ✓ Ready to forward unedited
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Recommendation Deck

10-14 slides designed to be shown to your board, investors, or leadership team without modification. Starts with the landscape (here's what you're facing), moves through strategic options and trade-offs, and lands on a clear recommendation with failure modes and success metrics explicitly surfaced.

  • ✓ The landscape (competitive reality)
  • ✓ Your position (where you stand)
  • ✓ Strategic options (the paths)
  • ✓ The recommendation (our read)
  • ✓ Failure modes & success metrics

Why structured deliverables matter

A consulting firm doesn't just give you analysis — they give you a structured deliverable that frames the decision, that you can share with confidence, that your board takes seriously. That's what changes outcomes.

Without a framework

You're drowning in options. No clear recommendation. Board questions multiply. Conviction erodes. You delay the decision.

With Stratos

Clear landscape. Strategic recommendation. Board alignment. You move forward with conviction. The decision gets made.

The process

You don't need to know Porter's Five Forces. You don't need a strategy background. You just need the decision you're wrestling with and context about your market. We handle the rigor.

1

Describe the decision

What's the strategic question? What are the constraints? (You provide context)

2

We analyze

Multi-framework analysis of your market, position, and options (48-72 hours)

3

You receive

Two deliverables: document + deck. Ready to share and act on.

You decide

Armed with clarity and conviction, you choose the path.

See what it looks like

Real decisions. Real landscapes. Real founders choosing paths.

Metals manufacturing

Respond to Chinese imports or pivot?

Mid-size Indian metals manufacturer facing Chinese price competition. Double down on quality premium? Enter the Chinese market? Pivot to specialty alloys? The analysis maps the landscape and surfaces the real strategic trade-offs.

Full Brief — Document + Deck

SaaS B2B

Raise VC or bootstrap?

Series A-ready SaaS founder weighing VC funding (rapid scaling, dilution) vs sustained bootstrap (slower growth, control retained). The analysis pressure-tests both scenarios and reveals what the market actually supports.

Full Brief — Document + Deck

Professional services

Productise services or stay bespoke?

Boutique consulting firm considering transition to packaged frameworks and fixed pricing. Client retention risk? Revenue opportunity? The analysis maps both the opportunity and the real organizational constraints.

Full Brief — Document + Deck

Request a strategic report

Up to 100 free strategic reports each month during founding access. We ask for feedback on the analysis and permission to use anonymised findings as case studies. No strings attached otherwise.

Industry & sub-industry, geography/markets, what to prioritize in the analysis, and any no-go zones (options or approaches we shouldn't consider).

The specific strategic decisions you want this report to help you make. Be concrete — frame each as a question you need answered.

Request received

We'll be in touch within 48-72 hours with your strategic document and deck.

Strategic insights

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How to use strategic analysis to build conviction before the board meeting.

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Pricing

Free

$0

Available now. Founding access period.

  • ✓ Strategic document (~12,000 words)
  • ✓ Recommendation deck (10-14 slides)
  • ✓ Up to 3 directional questions
  • ✓ 48-72 hour turnaround

Pro

$249

Per report. Coming September 2026.

  • ✓ Strategic document (~12,000 words)
  • ✓ Branded recommendation deck
  • ✓ Up to 3 directional questions
  • ✓ 6-8 week decision-impact follow-up

Enterprise

Custom

For teams and bulk engagements. Q2 2027.

  • ✓ Everything in Pro
  • ✓ Bulk report discounts
  • ✓ Custom analysis parameters
  • ✓ Priority turnaround