Prepare
Each person finds their Values Compass privately, then reflects on where the venture is today and where it is going.
Trust is infrastructure.
A studio for people who build together
We help founders, teams and communities write the agreements that let them trust each other enough to collaborate, towards a regenerative future.
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Most ventures do not fail on the idea. They fail on the relationships behind it.
Harvard professor Noam Wasserman studied almost ten thousand founders and found that people problems, who does what and how they are rewarded, sink nearly two thirds of early-stage startups.
That conflict rarely starts as a fight. It starts with values nobody said out loud, and decisions nobody agreed how to make. Choose the seed together at the beginning, and every later decision has something to grow from.
How a venture comes apart, and what puts it back together
Nothing synchronises in isolation. Coherence needs something shared to move through.
Know what you're growing.
The Alignment Accelerator, by Pixel Alchemy
A short, facilitated process that turns each person's values into a shared philosophy, and a shared philosophy into agreements people can trust.
Unearth
Everyone shares their values and the stories behind them, and the group listens. We map where values overlap, complement and create tension.
Weave
Together we write the vision, mission, values and strategy, and test each one with simple questions.
Commit
Signature step We turn the values into working agreements: how we decide, disagree, share credit and money, and part ways with care.
Tend
One moon cycle later, we test the agreements against real life and refine them.
Two ways to take part
The same five phases, in whichever shape fits your group.
The Intensive
- Shape
- 2 to 3 days together, with preparation beforehand and a check-in one moon cycle later.
- Setting
- In person, our signature format, or hybrid.
- Best for
- Founding moments, high stakes, teams that can gather in one place.
The Unfolding
- Shape
- The same journey over 2 to 4 weeks, in sessions of 3 hours or less.
- Setting
- Online or hybrid.
- Best for
- Teams spread across places, or groups who want time to absorb each step.
Find your compass.
Step one, free
Your values are already there, in the choices you keep making when nobody is watching. This is a ritual of remembrance: answer freely, notice what keeps returning, and name the four that have been steering you all along.
One — Unearth
Answer freely. Four things each, first thought, no editing.
This is not about the values you think you should hold. It is about paying attention to the choices you already make when nobody is watching. Write the first four things that come. Nothing here is sent to us.
Where does your energy naturally flow?
In your natural habitat, when nobody is watching, what do you spend most of your time and energy on?
Two — Distill
Look back through everything you wrote. Which things keep returning?
Everything you unearthed is below. Read it back, count what repeats, then name four in your own words and say what each one means to you. Two people can write the same word and mean different things, and that difference is exactly what the Accelerator needs to hear.
Feeling stuck? Words others have used
Examples to adapt, not a menu to pick from. Select one to drop it into the next open slot, then rewrite the meaning in your own language.
Three — Keep it
Your compass lives in this browser and leaves when you close the tab.
Copy it above, or give us an address and we will send it over. We hold your address to do that and for nothing else.
This is one compass. In the Accelerator, everyone's is drawn alongside it, and the direction you share is the one you can all see.
Adapted from Dr John Demartini's values determination.
Name your first value and the compass starts to draw.
How we work
Five commitments, and what each one makes us refuse.
Purpose Before Profit
Alignment with purpose comes first, and prosperity follows. Enough is enough.
We refuse: work that pays well and extracts.
Integrity in Action
What we say, what we agree and what we do match.
We refuse: polished language that hides a real disagreement.
Inclusivity and Collective Care
Every voice is valued. When we feel blocked or challenged, we get curious and widen our perspective.
We refuse: staying curious about someone who is harming people.
Reciprocity
Trust grows where benefit and risk are shared in both directions.
We refuse: open-ended work for a future promise.
Kinship with the Living World
We are part of the systems we serve, and we act like it.
We refuse: decisions that ignore the place they land on.
Agreements before execution
Our signature practice. Shared terms are written down before the work begins.
Who you'd be working with.
The two of us
Yoshi
Co-founder
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Nikki
Co-founder
Super powerThe empathetic prognosticator providing pragmatic solutions to your unseen problems.
Builds cultures and communities where connection, belonging and joyful work are the norm.
Begin.
Start with the Values Compass, free and yours to keep. Or book a 30-minute alignment call to explore whether the Accelerator fits your group.