Invest in The Value Network

An asymmetric bet
on the network economy.

Pre-seed via Wefunder. $500K target, $5M cap, SAFE. The full thesis is below — 13 slides, the architecture, and the ask.

The Pitch Deck

13 slides. The Wefunder pitch, top to bottom.

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The Premise

AI Is Decoupling Value from Employment

We’re in the Post-Knowledge Work Era. Hyper-specialized expertise — ServiceNow architects, Salesforce admins, SAP consultants, data engineers — is being absorbed into AI agents at unprecedented speed. The labor-capital arbitrage that built the firm economy is evaporating. What emerges on the other side is a network economy where value is decoupled from employment, captured by the specialists who produce it, and orchestrated by software.

Organizations face the mirror image. Legacy business-enablement approaches — hiring consultants, launching CoEs, running change-management programs — were designed for a world that moved slowly. That world is gone. What organizations need now is a cognitive layer above their existing System of Work — one that senses, decides, and acts at the speed AI demands. They need a System of Cognition.

The Value Network is the infrastructure between these two sides. We engineer a System of Cognition for the organizations we serve and a Network-Firstfuture for the specialists who staff it — both sides of the same structural shift, served by the same platform.

The Value Network is the strategy infrastructure for the Intelligence Age — engineering Systems of Cognition for organizations, and a Network-First future for the specialists who staff them.

What We’re Building

The Architecture

Two-sided infrastructure built layer by layer — from the proprietary platform that runs every engagement, to the AI agent that conducts the Strategic Loop, to the matching engine that connects organizations (Value Consumers) to the curated network of specialists (Value Producers). Each layer compounds the others. Each engagement makes the network smarter.

Why We’re Considering Public Benefit Status

The Value Network is strongly considering Nevada Public Benefit Corporation status — a for-profit corporate structure that legally requires the board to balance shareholder financial interests with the well-being of those materially affected by the company’s conduct, including the knowledge workers and organizations we serve.

If we pursue the designation, our mission — supporting the transition of knowledge workers and organizations to adaptive, AI-native ways of working — would be embedded in our corporate charter. It would give us legal protection to prioritize the health of our network alongside financial returns, even as we scale and bring on institutional investors.

The Platform
Meridian
Our proprietary, AI-native platform — built on SurrealDB graph database, Temporal.io workflow engine, and an in-house AI Software Factory. The execution surface for every C4E and engagement.
The Architecture
Strategic Loop OS
Four recursive modes — Sensing, Shaping, Enacting, Patterning — orbiting Strategic Intent. The architectural pattern that makes every engagement coherent and the System of Cognition operational.
The User-Facing Intelligence
Strategic Advisor AI Agent
An AI agent grounded in organizational design theory that connects Strategic Intent to coordinated execution. Conducts the Strategic Loop end-to-end across every engagement.
The Matching Layer
Coordination Engine + Skill Graph
Ranks Value Producers against each engagement’s scope using a provenance-tracked Skill Graph. Pattern memory across engagements compounds — every cycle makes the next one smarter. The moat.
The Curated Supply
Network-First Onboarding
How specialists become matchable: resume parse → AI Deep Research → conversational screening → provenance-tracked skill claims. Curated supply, not an open marketplace.
The Anchor Market
ServiceNow C4E
Our first commercial C4E with a Three-Tier Engagement Model: Strategic Asset (deepen), Exit Ramp (migrate to Meridian), or Decline (when neither fits). The pattern repeats across every C4E we ship.
The Anchor Market

ServiceNow First. The Pattern Repeats.

ServiceNow has 8,100+ enterprise customers and a vast ecosystem of consultants, integrators, and platform teams. Many of these organizations are stuck — burdened by years of accumulated configuration debt, bloated CMDBs, broken SLAs, and spaghetti workflows. The traditional response is a 12-month consulting engagement billed hourly. The result: more drift, not less.

The ServiceNow C4E delivers Platform Intelligence— a recurring service layer above the platform, replacing the project model entirely. Three engagement paths depending on where the customer actually is:

Strategic Asset. Deepen the existing investment. Layer Platform Intelligence on top; compound the value already built.
Exit Ramp. Migrate to Meridian, our AI-native alternative. For customers who’ve outgrown the platform.
A Respectful Decline. When neither path fits. Honesty over revenue.

We meet customers where they are. We’re not another ServiceNow partner selling hours — we’re a Center for Enablement selling velocity, intelligence, and freedom. ServiceNow is where the first revenue comes from. The pattern repeats: Salesforce, Snowflake, Workday, SAP, and beyond. Same architecture. Different ecosystem.

Why Now

The Window Is Open

AI is decoupling expertise from employment
AI is collapsing the premium on hyper-specialization. At the same time, the value specialists create is decoupling from traditional employment. The labor-capital arbitrage that built the firm economy is evaporating — and a network economy is emerging on the other side.
Enterprise is structurally stuck
Large organizations know they need to change but are trapped by legacy investments, vendor lock-in, and a consulting model designed for the old world. The constraint isn’t tools or budget — it’s the cognitive layer that connects strategy to coordinated execution.
Knowledge workers need a Network-First future
Millions of specialists built careers around platforms AI is now learning to operate. They need more than reskilling — they need structural alternatives: independent capture of value, portable reputation, AI-augmented delivery, and a curated network where their expertise compounds.
AI as Coordination is the new operating layer
The market has moved from task automation (RPA, AI copilots) to agentic AI. What’s missing is the orchestration layer — connecting strategy to execution across humans, systems, and agents. The window for the first network to own it is open now.
What You’re Not Paying For

The AI-Native Cost Arbitrage

Traditional consulting firms — Accenture, Deloitte, even the top-tier strategy houses — adopt AI internally while continuing to bill at associate-hour multiples. That structural arbitrage is unsustainable. The Value Network (TVN) does not bill it.

TVN’s subscription pricing is a fraction of what most organizations already spend on adjacent services. We don’t charge for the curated network access that makes traditional executive recruitment partially obsolete. The AI-native cost advantage shows up at every tier, most aggressively at the entry tiers where buyers cannot even afford traditional consulting access.

One C-suite executive search
$75K–$165K
4+ years of Foundation · or 1+ year of Growth · or 5+ months of Strategic
One VP-level executive search
$50K–$130K
~3 years of Foundation · or ~1 year of Growth · or 3–6 months of Strategic
One Director-level recruitment
$30K–$70K
~2 years of Foundation · or ~6 months of Growth
Fractional CXO retainer
$180K–$600K / yr
Multiple years of Strategic · or 1 year of Enterprise
McKinsey senior consultant day
$5K–$10K
~2 days = 2 months of Strategic subscription
Big Four senior advisor day
$3K–$5K
~4 days = 1 month of Strategic subscription
Boutique strategy consultant day
$2K–$4K
~6 days = 1 month of Strategic subscription

Per-hire executive search fees are sunk cost with no ongoing value. TVN’s network access is recurring, continuous, with the System of Cognition layered above. Pricing for buyer-affordability is itself a market-making move that no incumbent can match without dismantling its P&L.

Founder

Jeremy Schinzel

Jeremy is a translational leader at the intersection of AI innovation and organizational design. He is the creator of the value-driven Collaboration, Intentions, & Orchestration (vCIO) Framework for the Post-Knowledge Work Era, and the architect behind Meridian— the AI-native platform bringing the network to life.

His background spans deep ServiceNow architecture expertise, CMDB strategy, enterprise data platforms, and two decades of working at the boundary between technology and organizational change. He builds TVN as a solo founder with an AI-native development workflow — Claude Code, Gemini, and a conviction that the future of enterprise work looks nothing like the present.

TVN operates from the Midwest with capital efficiency as a core principle. We focus on unit economics and sustainable growth — not burn-at-all-costs.

Where We Are
Platform
Working Prototype
Coordination Engine + Skill Graph
Community
Growing Network
Value Producers + C4E practitioners
IP Foundation
Original Frameworks
vCIO Framework + Symbiosis Model
Architecture
Production Stack
SurrealDB · Temporal · BigQuery
Use of Funds

$500K Target — Building the Core

Net proceeds after Wefunder's 7.9% success fee: ~$460K. Founder compensation is covered by existing consulting revenue, maximizing how much of your investment goes directly to platform development and growth.

40%
Platform Engineering~$184K
Complete the Strategic Advisor MVP, harden the Coordination Engine and Skill Graph, build out the proprietary Meridian Platform, and ship the ServiceNow C4E with its Three-Tier Engagement Model as a productized offering.
25%
Go-to-Market~$115K
Launch the ServiceNow C4E commercially, scale the NFC-driven onboarding pipeline for Value Producers, and establish the first paying Value Consumer relationships.
20%
Content & Community~$92K
Publish research, build out the Signal content engine, and grow the practitioner community that feeds the network — including author-licensing partnerships that integrate published strategy frameworks into the Strategic Advisor agent.
15%
Operations & Legal~$69K
Infrastructure, PBC evaluation and potential formation, compliance, and preparation for the institutional seed round.
What This Capital Achieves

From Prototype to Revenue

This $500K gets The Value Network from working prototype to launched platform with paying customers — and positions us for an institutional seed round from a place of strength, not desperation.

1
Strategic Advisor MVP live and serving Value Consumers
2
ServiceNow C4E commercially launched with the Three-Tier Engagement Model
3
First paying C4E subscribers generating recurring revenue
4
Value Producer network active — NFC-screened, ranked by the Coordination Engine
5
Strong position to raise an institutional seed at significantly higher valuation
Investment Terms

Community Round

Minimum
$100K
Must hit to close
Target
$500K
12–18 months runway
Maximum
$750K
Oversubscription cap
Valuation Cap
$5M
SAFE conversion ceiling
Phase 1 — Community RoundPreparing

Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF)

SAFE · $5M Valuation Cap · $500K Target · via Wefunder

Open to all investors. Minimum investment of $100. Funding goal: $100K minimum, $500K target, $750K maximum. All community investors are bundled into a single SPV to maintain a clean cap table for future institutional rounds. This raise funds 12–18 months of platform development, go-to-market, and operations.

Phase 2 — Seed Round

Priced Equity Round

Institutional Seed · Target: Strategic VCs

Following platform launch and initial revenue traction, we'll raise an institutional seed from investors aligned with B2B vertical AI and the Future of Work. Community investors' SAFEs convert at this stage.

Important Disclosures

Startup investing is inherently risky. The majority of startups fail, and you should be prepared to lose your entire investment. Shares in early-stage companies are illiquid — you should expect to hold your investment for 5–10 years with no guarantee of a return. Past performance of other companies on Wefunder does not predict future results.

This page is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Any offering will be made only through official documents filed with the SEC via our Wefunder campaign.

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Whether you're a knowledge worker navigating the transition, an organization rethinking how work gets done, or an investor who sees what's coming — we'd like to hear from you.