Pre-seed via Wefunder · $500K target · $5M cap
Intelligence is abundant.
Coordination is the scarcity.
AI is flooding organizations with copilots and agents. What they still cannot buy is a durable way to keep humans and machines aligned under one intent — inside the firm, and over a longer horizon across the systems that deliver essential services. That is the layer we build.
Near term, revenue starts with the Strategy Engineer AI agent: the interface that educates leaders, seeds knowledge graphs, and funds learning. The investable core is what sits underneath — System of Cognition, Judgment Infrastructure, Meridian, and a Network-First matching layer. The sections and deck below unpack the stack.
Pre-revenue. Working prototype. Original frameworks. No paying customer yet. If that is disqualifying, it should be.
Startup investing is risky; be prepared to lose the entire investment. Full disclosures.
The pitch deck
Thirteen slides. Infrastructure-led.
Deck updated August 2026
Clinical visual system aligned with the public site. Narrative is infrastructure-first: System of Cognition and Judgment Infrastructure, Meridian, Network-First, with the Strategy Engineer AI agent as transmission and near-term commercial surface. Where older materials differ, this page and this deck are current.
The premise
AI is a selection environment. Coordination is the scarce resource.
The strategic landscape is deforming at machine tempo. Organizations whose Information–Action Cycles still run on meeting cadence are selected against. Intelligence is abundant; coordination under coherent intent — across humans and agents, inside firms and eventually across essential services — is scarce.
The Value Network builds the permanent infrastructure for that coordination. We give specialists a Network-First place to carry expertise, and we give organizations a cognition and judgment layer above the System of Work.
The bet is that coordination — not raw intelligence — becomes the scarce resource, and that whoever holds the substrate the coordination runs on holds the position.
What we are building
The stack, at the status it is actually at.
Stated with build status attached, because the difference between shipped and intended is the difference an investor is actually pricing. Near-term revenue still begins with the Strategy Engineer interface; the investable story is the infrastructure.
Core
System of Cognition · Judgment Infrastructure
Shared context fabric (personal → team → enterprise graphs) on SurrealDB, metabolic pricing of cognition, decision-rights discipline, held-open transactions. The layer that coordinates carbon and silicon against a common world-model.
Agentic open core
Meridian — Enterprise Service Management (ESM)
AI-native, headless Enterprise Service Management (ESM) core on SurrealDB — built by AI agents for AI agents. Agent-first, not form-first. “Talk to the data.” In development; Apache-2.0 planned. Commodity primitives are not where the value sits.
Primary human interface
Strategy Engineer AI agent
Transmission system and near-term commercial surface. Socratic QCEA education, graph seeding, multidisciplinary practice. Founding access $50/mo individuals / $500/mo organizational C4E. First revenue and learning loops — not the entire product.
Redesign path
Org design · Metabolic health
How organizations are redesigned once leaders see lag, coordination tax, and local-context traps. Metabolic Health Diagnostic is a bounded field path, not the default first sale.
Matching layer
Coordination Engine + Skill Graph
Ranks Value Producers against engagement scope with provenance-tracked skill claims. Working prototype exists; pattern memory at volume is architectural intent.
Curated supply
Network-First onboarding
How specialists become matchable: resume parse, deep research, conversational screening, provenance. Curated supply rather than an open marketplace.
Adjacency
Sovereign AI C4E
Legacy IT service management / Enterprise Service Management (ESM) estates. Exit Ramp or Respectful Decline. Where an estate is genuinely worth deepening with someone else, that is a referral out.
Long horizon
Ultimate attractor: Universal Basic Services
Network-First is not only a labor-market design. The same matching and judgment infrastructure that lets Value Producers carry expertise outside traditional employment can, over a longer horizon, support coordination problems at the scale of public goods and Universal Basic Services — healthcare, education, housing, connectivity, nutrition, legal access. That is an implication of the architecture, not a current product claim.
Universal Basic Services is the ultimate attractor state for The Value Network. Near-term commercial work remains the Strategy Engineer interface and the metabolic health of organizations.
Why now
Four things moving at the same time.
AI is decoupling expertise from employment
And simultaneously creating a coordination problem that neither firms nor public systems are instrumented to solve. Specialists and organizations both need a different structure.
Enterprise is structurally stuck
Legacy platforms, vendor lock-in, and consulting models that bill for duration rather than resolution. Knowing change is required is not the same as being able to metabolize it.
Knowledge workers need a non-firm structure
Network-First is the supply side of the same coordination problem: provenance, attribution, and matching without burying expertise in a pyramid.
Coordination is the missing layer
Above agentic AI and below societal service delivery. Intelligence is abundant; coherent intent across humans and agents is scarce. That is the layer we build.
Founder
Jeremy Schinzel
Founder and Chief Enablement Officer. A translational leader at the intersection of AI and organizational design — educating executives and strategic planners through the Strategy Engineer path, then redesigning for metabolic health under AI.
Architect behind Meridian, the Enterprise Service Management (ESM) platform in development, and the substrate beneath it. He is also the network’s first participant under the same attribution rules as everyone else. More on why this exists.
Key-person concentration
He builds TVN as a solo founder with an AI-native development workflow. One person currently holds the frameworks, the architecture, and the customer relationships. That is what makes capital efficiency possible and it is also the single largest risk in this investment. Nothing in this raise removes it; the platform engineering line is what begins to.
Where we are
Honest about the stage.
Platform
Working prototype
Coordination Engine and Skill Graph built. Not yet exercised at volume.
Architecture
In progress
System of Cognition design; Strategy Engineer harness ~v0.5; SurrealDB · Next.js · Clerk · Stripe. Meridian in development.
IP foundation
Original frameworks + QCEA dependency
TVN-authored practice and product architecture. Strategy Engineer education rests on Prof. Clayton Williams’ QCEA — a licensing relationship not yet concluded, and a dependency worth pricing.
Revenue
None yet
Pre-revenue. No paying customer has closed. Everything below the line is a plan, not a result.
Use of funds
$500K target — building the core.
Net proceeds after Wefunder’s 7.9% success fee: ~$460K. The percentages below are of net proceeds, not of the $500K target. TVN is pre-revenue. The founder takes no salary in this phase and supports himself from outside contract work he retains personally, so none of these proceeds fund founder compensation. That arrangement is what keeps the allocation below intact, and it is not guaranteed indefinitely.
Platform & infrastructure
~$184K
System of Cognition / SurrealDB hardening, Strategy Engineer interface, Meridian toward open-core, Coordination Engine / Skill Graph.
Go-to-market
~$115K
First C4E and Diagnostic relationships, Value Producer pipeline, early Value Consumer learning loops.
Content, community, licensing
~$92K
Research, practitioner community, Williams and related author partnerships that lock doctrine into the agent and graphs.
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.
These are targets, not commitments. They are what the plan is built to reach, and the reason to prefer them over a forecast is that each one is a thing you can observe happening or not happening.
System of Cognition substrate and Strategy Engineer interface live — serving first Value Consumers
First paying C4E subscribers and/or Metabolic Health Diagnostic customers
Meridian advanced toward open-core release
Williams licensing relationship concluded or explicitly structured
Value Producer network active and ranked by the Coordination Engine
Strong position to raise an institutional seed at a significantly higher valuation
The entity
What you would be investing in.
The Value Network is a Nevada limited liability company today. This raise is a SAFE — a Simple Agreement for Future Equity — which is not stock. It converts into equity in a future priced round at or below the $5M valuation cap. If no such round happens, it does not convert.
We are strongly considering Nevada Public Benefit Corporationstatus: a for-profit corporate structure that legally requires the board to balance shareholder financial interests against the well-being of those materially affected by the company’s conduct. For a company whose product is how organizations treat the people inside them, we think the obligation belongs in the charter rather than in the marketing.
Not yet decided
It has not been formed and no conversion is committed. The 15% Operations & Legal line above funds the evaluation and any formation that follows. Invest on the LLC and the SAFE as they stand today, not on the PBC as an expected outcome.
Important disclosures
Read this part.
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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