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ESCAPE VELOCITY

You built a company with a soul.

Make it Incorruptible.

Escape Velocity is an advisory partner for protecting your mission; today and for the long term.

We help founders defy gravity.

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We help founders protect their mission for the long term: Governance, management, culture, incentives, and business model. Structural infrastructure that delivers purpose and profit, by default.

Co-Founders

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Eric Ries

Janice Fraser

About Us

We're a cross-disciplinary team of founders, operators, investors, and transformation consultants — with experience across the lifecycle, from incorporation to scale, founding teams to boards.

Mission

Build a world where Incorruptible, mission-driven organizations are the norm — so that work, capital, and institutions serve human flourishing by design.

Our One Metric
By 2036: 10,000 organizations on the path to Incorruptible governance — structurally aligned around their mission. 

Strategy

Be the best place on Earth to learn and practice the craft of Incorruptible governance

The founders, operators, and investors who train here take it with them. The 
work continues in companies they build, boards they join, funds they run, and practitioners they teach.

5/26/26

Book Release

Special 

Offer

In celebration of the Incorruptible book release, we're offering a special one-week Mission Lock kickstart. 

Who it's for: 

  • Organizations with annual revenue >$1M

  • Clear sense of purpose

  • Founder is in the chief executive position

  • Can be for-profit or non-profit
     

What you get: 

1. ELT Workshop

2. CEO 1:1 with Eric (30m)

3. Mission/Ethos/Behaviors Crosswalk 

4. Diagnostic

5. Transformation Roadmap

 

Flat fee: $9650.
 

By application only, limited to 10 organizations. 

Our Services

Incorruptible Blueprint Implementation

Becoming Incorruptible is not just a legal implementation. It is also an organizational transformation that with widespread implications, from strategy and revenue to performance management and investor relations. 

Mission Lock Ongoing Support

Protecting the mission isn't a one-time project. Drift compounds at every funding round, executive hire, and change in the business. We partner with leadership teams over the long-term to predict, identify and course-correct drift in the organization.

Get In Touch

Let us help you lock in your mission. 

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