Automate intelligence, elevate human judgement.
Build your business faster and smarter, with an approach that brings people and AI into the same room. The AI does the analysis. Your team keeps the judgement.
A sample run of Third Vector's investment-memo skill: six phases from calibrate to deliver, resolving in a memo ready for an investor.
// canopy
One AI-native framework. We call it Canopy.
Canopy pairs AI skills that automate the analytical work with a workshop method that keeps human judgement in the loop. Each capability ships as a node: the skill, the method, and the guidance to run both. 30+ nodes across go-to-market, product, and corporate finance, and growing. They run on Claude today and are designed to run on any model.
// applied_ai
Applied AI: an expert alongside your team.
Canopy is the capability you own and run. Applied AI is the hands-on help: we deploy Canopy in your team, train your people, and build custom skills and integrations into your operation. We go deepest on Claude, and deploy Mistral, OpenAI, or open models where they fit.
explore Applied AI →// the_third_way
A third way to build capability.
Hiring is slow. Consultants deliver once and leave. Canopy gives your team the capability itself, to own and keep sharpening.
Faster than a hire. Sharper than a one-off engagement. And it stays with you.
compare the three routes →// capabilities
Capabilities across the three domains where building and funding a business is won or lost.
Go-to-market
Competitor mapping, opportunity prioritisation, pricing, materials production, and sales sequences. Canopy automates the repetitive work and keeps the decision-critical calls with your team.
Product
Value-to-solution mapping, MVP scoping, roadmap prioritisation, PRD writing, and the end-to-end product development system that runs them. AI-native products end to end, even without a technical background.
Corporate finance
Investment memos, investor pitches, deal screening, M&A modelling, and valuations. The analytical work that used to need an advisory team.
// capabilities · how_it_works
Human judgement, AI leverage, on a loop.
You set intent. AI analyses. You judge. Every pass compounds, and the capability stays with you.
01
You set the intent
Set the objective: why this work, why now, and what it needs to prove. That call is yours.
02
AI does the analysis
It researches, drafts, and models, sometimes interviewing you as it works.
03
You own the judgement
Weigh what matters, challenge the output, spot the gaps, and make the call.
A diagram of the Third Vector working loop: six stages orbiting the Third Vector mark in a continuous cycle. Human sets intent, AI runs research and drafting, AI presents output, human challenges it, AI refines, human judges. Each pass of the loop compounds into reusable building blocks.
// capabilities · judgement_layer
Automation does the work. Judgement stays yours.
Agentic AI compresses the analytical work: the research, the modelling, the drafting. It does not own the decision. Six things stay with the people in the room, and the method is built to sharpen every one of them.
01
Intent
A frontier model runs with whatever intent it is given, at full speed. Why this work, why now, and what it needs to prove. Setting that is yours.
02
Key assumptions
Every case rests on a few load-bearing assumptions. Naming them, and choosing which to test first, is a human call.
03
How ideas are articulated
The way an idea is put into words shapes what the analysis returns. Sharper in, sharper out.
04
How factors are weighted
AI will happily list twelve factors that matter. Deciding that two of them decide the case is judgement.
05
Gaps in context
A model only knows what it has been given. Spotting what is missing from the room is on the people in it.
06
The gut check
When the analysis says yes and something still feels off, that signal counts. Good method makes room for it rather than overriding it.
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// contact
What are you building next?
We work with founders raising, operators launching something new inside an established company, CEOs and CFOs at growth-stage businesses, and the firms that back them. If you want an AI-native partner on strategy and capital, book a call.