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Product

startops.sh

Help new businesses form around purpose, fit, evidence, and operating discipline.

startops.sh helps new businesses catalog discovery and formation work so they can become coherent operating companies.

startops.sh is for founders and small teams before HatTrick is the right product. A startup, daycare, local service business, or SaaS company may not yet have stable operating history to assess. It still needs to discover fit, purpose, customers, constraints, economics, and the operating model it is trying to become.

startops.sh uses an MCP-based approach to organize that discovery. The goal is not to write a generic business plan. The goal is to keep assumptions, evidence, decisions, experiments, and formation artifacts connected while the business is still becoming legible.

Operating Shape

  • Capture discovery and formation evidence as it emerges.

  • Keep assumptions distinct from validated facts.

  • Connect customer fit, purpose, operations, economics, and risk.

  • Prepare the business for later HatTrick assessment or Cora Helps improvement work.

Where It Fits

startops.sh is the formation layer in the Curate Labs portfolio. HatTrick is for assessing an operating SMB. Cora Helps is for executing improvement initiatives. startops.sh comes earlier: when the business is still discovering what it is and how it should work.

What It Means

What It Helps With

Business Formation

Catalog purpose, customer hypotheses, operating constraints, pricing assumptions, and early model choices.

Discovery Evidence

Preserve interviews, research, experiments, documents, and decisions so the team can revisit why a direction changed.

Operating Model

Turn formation work into a practical view of how the business will sell, deliver, support, measure, and improve.

Why It Matters

Why It Matters

Source-linked

Evidence stays attached

Recommendations stay tied to records, documents, and assumptions so operators can review the work.

Operational

Workflows stay repeatable

Teams get clearer next steps without turning every exception into a disconnected one-off.

Read Insights

Help new businesses form around purpose, fit, evidence, and operating discipline.