field guide no. 1
should we be
co-founders?
Two little games that surface the co-founder red flags nobody says out loud — then hand you the list worth arguing about now, not in year three.
- 2 games
- 2-4 founders
- own phones
- no accounts
pick your game
what it watcheshow to playquestions
the six dimensions
What it's actually watching
Every card feeds one of these. The report ranks them by how far apart you sat.
Repair & tone
What happens after the argument, and whether it actually ends.
How you fight
Whether your instincts under disagreement collide or cancel out.
Under pressure
Who needs to talk right now, and who needs to disappear first.
Where the power sits
How many kinds of authority quietly stack onto one person.
Fairness & the split
Whether you agree on what a fair share even means.
Blind spots
The gap between how you see yourself and how the party sees you.
Trust in practice
Not what you say about trust — what you did with the coins.
how to play
Six steps, ten minutes-ish
Two games, same party code. Pick one, then open a step to see what it looks like.
questions
The things people ask first
Answers for The Trek, then the ones that apply to both games. Tap one to open it.
the research
Built on Gottman's repair and contempt findings, the Thomas-Kilmann conflict modes, attachment research on pursue-withdraw, Wasserman's Founder's Dilemmas, faultline research on power concentration, and the standard behavioural trust and public-goods games. Every card tells you which one it came from.
Not a diagnosis, not therapy, and definitely not a hiring decision. It's a conversation starter with sources.