BASTILLE
Advisory
YOU DON'T
HAVE A
PRODUCT PROBLEM.
What you need isn't advice. It's an operator embedded in the work.
Book a free office hours session →Building the GTM playbook from what's actually working. Rebuilding the story so it lands. Running the raise as an operation — pipeline, introductions, data room. Inside the company, not orbiting it.
You have traction in a pocket. You can't scale it, replicate it, or explain what's driving it.
We identify what's actually working, build and run the playbook, and make partner and investor introductions before you need them.
Your business has evolved, but the narrative you're presenting to the world hasn't caught up.
We close the gap between what you've built and what investors, customers, and ecosystem partners hear — and make the new story hold.
You're in the right rooms with the right people. The right conversations aren't converting.
We build the infrastructure and make targeted introductions: investors sequenced to your stage, ecosystem partners with real upside.
Every engagement starts with a scoping conversation. The work takes whatever form the signal requires.
The investors and operators here are close enough to text. Every intro — capital, customer, or partner — carries real context.
Bastille works with pre-seed to Series B founders in crypto, AI, B2B SaaS, and embedded finance — not when the raise has already stalled, but before that. At the stage where the company is real and the bandwidth to run everything in parallel has run out.
Identify the driver of traction, isolate the segment worth scaling, and build the playbook for the next one.
Rebuild the story so it holds across investor meetings, enterprise sales conversations, and ecosystem partnerships.
Pipeline structure, data room, investor sequencing, and introductions made with real context.
Direct introductions to capital, ecosystem, and strategic partners. Every intro carries context — no cold forwards.
Positioning and distribution within platform and protocol ecosystems — grants, co-marketing, and institutional partnerships outside standard VC channels.
Capital is moving, but conviction is scarce. In crypto, the infrastructure cycle gave way to a founder market where only the sharpest narratives close. In AI, the flood of capital has made differentiation the entire game. In B2B SaaS and embedded finance, buyers are more sophisticated and more skeptical than they were two years ago. The pattern is the same: founders building real companies in categories that move faster than buyer understanding.
Whether the problem is too little attention or too much of the wrong kind, the work is the same — get clear on what you've built, who it's for, and why the capital or the customer should move now. Bastille exists for this stage of that problem.
Most founders who don't close rounds or convert customers don't have a product problem. They have a clarity problem, or a capacity one — and Bastille exists to close that gap.
The problem is consistent across stages and categories: founders building something real, in a paradigm their investors and customers don't fully understand yet, trying to close the gap between what they've built and what the world can see.
At SignalFire, an AI-native venture firm built around proprietary data infrastructure, he worked closely with AI engineers and founders — developing the fund-side perspective on what narrative moves capital when the technology is genuinely new.
At XPRIZE, running frontier technology competitions meant positioning breakthrough ideas to audiences who had never encountered them — the same translation problem founders in emerging categories face every day.
At Ava Labs, that methodology became Codebase, the flagship Avalanche accelerator. Over multiple cohorts, founders were placed on VC watchlists, institutional partnerships formed, and raises closed — across crypto infrastructure, DeFi, and consumer.
Bastille Advisory is the same work — without the institutional layer between the operator and the founder.
The introductions Bastille makes are direct — built over a decade across funds, ecosystems, and deal flow.
Selected engagements. Each one started with a conversation about what wasn't working.
Additional cases in preparation.
Not sure where to start? That's what the first session is for. Book a free slot →