Rick Katz

Your runway is shrinking. Customers want a fix. An investor wants proof. Which decision do you make first?

That is the experience we wanted founders to practice before real money and people depend on their answer.

The scale is growing: the U.S. Census Bureau s seasonally adjusted series recorded 5,634,736 business applications in 2025 versus 5,246,630 in 2024 a 7.4% increase. These are EIN applications, not unique founders or confirmed startup launches. Growth is uneven: 2024 was below 2023.

Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/grap...

Founders often have to validate a customer need, convert interest into revenue, set a price, and protect runway with incomplete evidence. In Slush's 2025 survey of 600+ early-stage European founders, fundraising led as a concern (58.1%); customer acquisition was a hurdle for just over half. That's one regional snapshot, not a universal measure. Source: https://slush.org/newsroom/slush...
The education question that interests me: how can founders practice a decision before the stakes are real? That question led to Founder Arena, a small play-and-learn prototype connected to SUDHI. Choose a move in a startup scenario, see a trade-off, and explain your reasoning. It is an early demo, not a proven training method or a claim of better startup outcomes.
Try the free demo: https://arena.sudhi.app/
If you play it, which choice felt realistic, what was unclear, and which situation should the next scenario cover?

AI coding gets us to green faster. But a green test is only useful if it can reject a broken outcome.

That is the question behind Code Factory v0.9.0.

For every developer

Start with First Proof. It challenges a declared test with an intentional failure. If the broken path still passes, the result is a visible proof gap not a false green light.