Upstream Creativity

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Up into
strategy...

At the frontier thinking defines you. I help founders and CEOs connect brand and business strategy for their next wave of growth.
Snapshot
A snapshot of my own founder journey.

↓Hello.
↑Schema.

Control your thinking.

↑Schema is a system for brand-led business strategy at the frontier of intelligence. It codifies your future into a set of distinctive, machine-ready choices, and single source of context, designed to think and grow with you.

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Conceptual
Foundations

The identity channel. The foundational ideas that set character and destination. Creating distinct worldview, language and roadmap. You know who you are and where you're going.

The market channel. The commercial goals, where to play and how to win, that create clarity on customer and market choices. You know where growth is and how to get to it.

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Chosen
Futures

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Codified
Functions

The structural channel. From choices to operations, creating the proprietary and organised functions that put the strategy into action. You start to deliver, grow and learn.

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Deliverables & Outcomes.

↑ Clarity on who you are, where you're going, and how. A single source of truth, your future on a page. An 'Upschema' that collects and connects all choices for growth.

↑ Built on AI native thinking. A single source of context, in a version controlled directory of markdown committed to your sovereign GitHub repo, and structured to work with LLMs and agents.

↑ In the market now and long term. All delivered in real time, from first-hand experience on live clients in collaboration with you and team. Adapting over time as progress and value are tracked.

sea data

↑Schema.

Future thinking, and the brain that thought it up, for your next wave of growth.

↑Schema
Example single source of growth.md structure

This future belongs to...

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↑ Growth Hypothesis.

↑ Conceptual Foundations.
↑ Chosen Futures.
↑ Codified Functions.

↑ Expected Value (XV).

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UpSchema from Sandoz

At the frontier of intelligence your thinking defines you. Codify these thoughts into ideas and they'll transform you.

Snapshot
Redacted single source of context / second brain.

"Part creative agency founder, Big 4 strategist, and frontier technologist, Sandoz' ability to innovate and level up business stood out."

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