June 2026 · Malaysia | September 2026 · Spain
While most founders at this stage are still planning the next chapter, twenty-four will arrive in 2026 with the work in their heads and leave with the work in the world.
The Week is not for thinking about the next chapter. The Week is for building it.
Malaysia (June) — Spain (September)
27 June – 4 July 2026 · September 2026
Twelve founders per cohort. Twenty-four total in 2026.
Investment: $20,000 standalone. $24,995 with the Transmit It bundle. Phil personally reviews every application. Cohort fit is assessed across all twenty-four founding seats together.
Methodology applied across domains — video processing, surgery, hospital reorganization, hardware design, biological tools, security patents, enterprise IT migration.
Business built on a single architecture conversation. The FPGA problem most engineers said could not be solved.
Swiss insurance firm reorganized through merger. Two weeks of structured listening. The proposal held.
Artist's project shipped, down from a five-year estimate, after one conversation with the architect.
You have built one direction of your life — the company — to a level of structural rigor most people will never reach.
The other directions are still running on the rules of a younger operator. The asymmetry is felt every day.
The NEXT exists to close it.
The work has been applied across video processing, surgery, hospital reorganization, hardware design, biological tools, security patents, and IT migration for some of Europe's largest enterprises. The same engine, applied across domains.
A colleague brought a real-time hardware reconfiguration problem most engineers said could not be solved. The conversation produced an FPGA architecture. He went on to build a 24 million franc business on it.
A 200-person Swiss insurance firm asked for a merger reorganization. Two weeks of structured listening, then the proposal. The proposal held.
An artist had been planning a project for two decades and was sure it would take five years. By the end of one conversation, the timeline was five months. The work shipped in five months.
Across forty years, the methodology has produced patents, products that shipped, businesses built, organizations that held through reorganization, and frameworks that scaled past the architect. The pattern is consistent across domains.
The NEXT is the first time the methodology has been compressed into a cohort format. Twelve founders. Seven days. The architect in the room for every hour of it.
The Malaysia and Spain cohorts of 2026 are the founding twenty-four.
The format will be reviewed after the founding cohorts ship. Future cohorts, if they run, will not be the founding cohorts. The architect will not necessarily be in the room for every hour the way he is in 2026.
This is what brand-new looks like at the architect level. Not unproven. Uncompressed. The methodology has been producing structural form for forty years. The compression into seven days is what is new.
Twelve seats per cohort. Two cohorts in 2026. The founding twenty-four.
The business is real. The revenue arrives. What used to be uncertain is now operational. The energy that built the company is no longer the energy needed for what comes next.
A book. A school. A methodology. A framework. Carried for years inside the founder, said out loud only in tones that signal it is not to be taken seriously.
Different work, different architecture. Willpower applies more of the existing engine. The next chapter requires structural moves the engine itself cannot make.
The NEXT is the architecture for that crossing.
Sixty-second pitches. Personal book delivery. Compass Pairing introduction. Cohort dinner. The Week begins with structure, not orientation.
Phil pairs founders by complementary REAL Compass bearings. The pairs hold for the rest of the Week — buddy work for video shoots, sales page review, accountability. The cohort is twelve, but the working unit is two.
Brand Voice Skill in the morning. Open work block in the afternoon for Brand DNA and Voice Confirmation. Founders leave the day with their voice captured at a level of structural specificity most have never seen written down.
Script written and signed off by lunch. Shoot in the afternoon with Phil's production team handling framing, sound, and lighting. Cohort buddies handle the read. The anchor video for Friday's Reveal goes into edit overnight.
The twelve belief shifts that structure a premium sales page in the morning. Complete sales page draft written in the afternoon and handed to Phil's team. Designed and built overnight.
Seven-email welcome sequence in the morning. Social profile optimization across primary platforms in the afternoon. By end of day, the entire Vehicle is in production. Overnight, Phil's team finalizes the sales pages and edits the videos for Friday.
Awards in the morning. Asset checklist sign-off. Lunch. The Reveal in the afternoon — anchor video on the big screen, sales page revealed live, every founder takes the stage. Send-off dinner in the evening.
Bundlers also work in daily 5pm–6pm Book Sessions Monday through Friday.
The Signature Vehicle is the public architecture that turns the work into a market-facing asset the founder owns and controls. It carries the founder's IP, voice, and offer into the world as a coherent system.
The Vehicle has five components. Each is built and revealed during the Week.
Founder-grade. Scripted Tuesday morning. Shot with Phil's production team Tuesday afternoon. Edited overnight. Plays on the big screen Friday afternoon at the Reveal.
Long-form. Drafted Wednesday afternoon under Phil's twelve-belief-shift anatomy. Designed and built overnight by Phil's team. Live on staging URL by Friday afternoon.
Seven emails. Welcome to first offer. Written Thursday morning under Phil's framework. Ready for the founder's email platform by end of day.
Optimized profiles across the founder's primary platforms. Rewritten Thursday afternoon to match the captured Brand Voice.
Printed in the founder's personal book. The map of the Vehicle as a system the founder owns and understands. The asset the team can build from after the Week.
Both cohort venues were selected on three criteria: a private space where the cohort eats together, a working space large enough to stage the Friday afternoon Reveal as a live event with full production setup, and an environment where the phone goes off the table during sessions.
A private villa in the Langkawi archipelago. Twelve founders, one residence, no other guests. The cohort works together, eats together, and reveals together for seven days inside the same walls.
The villa is configured for the Week — workshop space for daily build sessions, a private dining setting for the seven dinners, and a stage configuration on Friday afternoon for the Reveal.
An adults-only boutique resort in the foothills of the Sierra de la Nieves, overlooking the Mediterranean. Viluz holds the Spain cohort as an exclusive group stay — no other guests in the resort during the Week.
The same configuration as Malaysia: workshop space, private dining, Reveal stage on Friday afternoon. A different climate, the same standard.
Mornings open with the sound of the venue, not notifications. Sessions run nine to noon and one to four. Lunches and dinners are part of the Week — the cohort eats together, every day. The Reveal on Friday afternoon is staged with the production setup of a live event, not a meeting room.
Friday morning. The cohort recognizes structural breakthroughs from the Week. Not popularity. Not networking. Implementation.
The seven dinners are part of the Vehicle. Founders who have built one direction of life to structural rigor talking to other founders doing the same work. The peer set is the proof.
Hotel and travel logistics for both venues are handled with accepted founders during the four-week pre-event window. Founders cover travel and accommodation; lunches and dinners during the Week are included.
A founder who leaves with the video but not the sales page does not have a Vehicle. A founder who leaves with the page but not the email sequence does not have a Vehicle. The five components are not features. They are the architecture, and the architecture functions only when complete.
This is why the Week is structured the way it is. Every day produces one component. By Friday afternoon, the system is whole.
The personalized hardcover personal book. The Compass Pairing. The cohort venue. Seven days of Phil's direct attention with eleven other founders. The production team for the build days and the overnight Reveal. All lunches and dinners. The Founders' Circle invitation post-event.
Total component value: well above the price of the Week.
What the price reflects, structurally, is sixteen to twenty weeks of distributed work compressed into seven days on the ground plus one week of post-event finishing.
The other way to think about the price is the alternative. Five years from now, the work in the founder's head will either still be in the founder's head, or it will be in the world. If it is still in the founder's head, the cost is not measured in dollars. It is measured in the chapter that did not happen.
By Friday afternoon, every founder takes the stage at the Reveal. The anchor video plays on the big screen. The sales page is revealed live. The email sequence is written. The social profiles are optimized. The Signature Vehicle architecture is signed off.
If the four revealed assets are not produced and revealed by Friday afternoon, the founder receives a full refund of the Week investment and keeps every asset built to that point.
The NEXT is the architecture for the next life chapter. The guarantee is that the architecture is built, revealed, and in the world by Friday afternoon, or the financial investment is returned in full.
The Transmit It bundle adds the book project to the Week. Can be added until Sunday evening of the Week.
What ships within one week of the event: the first edition manuscript, designed and laid out, plus the live book funnel. Trade publishing, if pursued, runs on its own timeline. The Week produces the book the founder owns and controls.
The bundle is for founders who already know a book is part of the next chapter. It is not for founders who are testing whether they want to write a book.
The cap is not a marketing tactic. The Week functions at twelve. Beyond twelve, the Compass Pairing breaks. The Reveal stage cannot accommodate more than twelve founders in an afternoon. The dinners cannot hold a real conversation past twelve seats.
The Malaysia and Spain cohorts are the founding twenty-four. The format will be reviewed after the founding cohorts ship. Future cohorts, if they run, will not be the founding cohorts, and the architect will not necessarily be in the room for every hour the way he is in 2026.
Phil personally reviews every application. Cohort fit is assessed across all twenty-four founding seats together. Applications are reviewed in order of submission, and seats are confirmed as fits emerge.
Malaysia runs 27 June through 4 July 2026. Spain runs in September 2026. Cohort cap: twelve per cohort. The founding twenty-four.
The application is short. Five questions. Cohort selection is part of the application.
Cart closes one week before each cohort begins.
APPLY TO THE NEXTTwo cohorts open for 2026: Malaysia, 27 June – 4 July, and Spain in September. Cohort cap: twelve per cohort. The founding twenty-four.