Introducing Help Me Build
A new open Q&A space for founders building Deep Tech companies.
After 120 episodes, The Scenarionist is opening the platform further.
What started in 2023 as an ambitious effort to bridge the venture-building layer between science, entrepreneurship, and capital has grown into something larger: a living platform for founders, scientists, investors, operators, and technologists working at the frontier of Deep Tech company creation.
Across those conversations, we have explored the gap between scientific promise and company-building reality: fundraising, venture readiness, customer discovery, industrial scale-up, IP, team formation, go-to-market strategy, capital strategy, and the uncomfortable founder dilemmas that appear when science becomes a business.
That is why we are launching Help Me Build.
What is Help Me Build?
Help Me Build is an open Q&A space for founders building Deep Tech companies.
It is designed to answer the practical, strategic, and often uncomfortable questions that emerge between the lab, the pilot, the market, and the next financing round.
What you can ask about
You can submit questions about any part of the Deep Tech company-building journey, including:
Venture building and company formation
Fundraising strategy and investor readiness
Milestone design and capital planning
Customer discovery and commercialization
Pilots, partnerships, and industrial deployment
IP strategy and defensibility
Hiring, co-founder dynamics, and team formation
Strategic investors, non-dilutive funding, and public funding
Scale-up, manufacturing, growth, and exit pathways
How it works
The format is simple. Through the button below, you can access a short form and submit your question anonymously.
Important Notice: By submitting your question, you agree that The Scenarionist may use it, or edited versions of it, across its newsletter, website, social media, and other platforms. Submissions may be edited for clarity and length. Responses will be anonymized. Please do not include confidential or sensitive information.
I will read every submission. Then, in future issues, I will select some of the most relevant questions and answer them in a way that can help the broader community.
My hope is that Help Me Build can become a space where those questions can be surfaced more openly.
This is a beta format. I will learn by doing, and the community will help shape what it becomes.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
Stay inspired,
Nicola