A 12-week intensive program
A full suite of frameworks, workflows, strategies, and tools, implemented in just one quarter.
1. Problem
Every founder knows they should be using AI. Most are running scattered experiments with no strategy, no playbook, and no guardrails. Some are going all in, implementing AI in every corner of their business, but losing the plot.
We are drowning in output without meaning. We add more features without improving the customer experience. We create more marketing copy, but it doesn't convert to sales. We replace people with AI, and lose the heart and soul of our company culture.
We must find the balance between leveraging this incredible technology, while staying radically human where it matters.
2. Why now
Y Combinator now runs on an internal AI agent with a company brain. According to TechCrunch, it holds the full context of every founder YC has backed, every email YC receives, and every application. Garry Tan, YC's CEO, says it is rebuilding the way YC operates.
Tan also says he spends up to $200,000 a year on tokens. You don't need that budget. Every competitor can rent the same model for the same price. Nobody can rent your company's context: your decisions, your customers, your strategy, and the way your team works. That context layer is what you build in this program.
Most founders already use AI for their own work. Their teams still work without the context the founder carries in their head. This program closes that gap across your product, your processes, and your people, with guardrails built for a company that has customers, a board, and a team to bring along.
Source: TechCrunch, November 2, 2026. Y Combinator is not affiliated with this program.
3. Model
The Full Stack AI Strategy gives you an advantage in your product, your processes, your team, and your own work. The Human Edge keeps judgment, creativity, and connection in human hands at every layer.
4. Program
Each two-week block pairs a 90-minute workshop with 60 minutes of office hours for building.
There are two tracks so every question fits the room, and your diagnostic places you in the right one.
You are using AI in pockets and want a clear strategy and a working system.
AI is already in your workflows, and you want to scale it across the company without losing what makes it human.
5. Experience
Less time on slides, more time working on your company alongside founders who get it.
You work on your own company, with your own data, in every session, and leave with something built.
Founders with founders, executives with executives. Small groups pressure-test each other's thinking and share what is actually working.
Every session ends with a challenge to complete, plus the templates and skills to act on it. Office hours are where you get it done.
6. Outcomes
7. In the field
Jamie Schwartzman runs Flux Branding, a brand strategy agency in Los Angeles. In October he sat in on Eric's session at The Realm on Cortex, the shared context layer every AI tool reads from, and the gnomes, small agents that prepare the next day's follow-ups overnight. He went home and started rolling out an AI operating system across his agency.
It logs time, sends daily briefings, and turns meetings into action items. Its dashboards show where every project stands, what's stuck, and what it costs, and it's starting to track client SEO and social and suggest where to focus.
“I came home from Eric's session with a notebook full of ideas”
Jamie Schwartzman, founder, Flux Branding. Read his write-up
His takeaway is the reason this program has a People block. A context layer gets every tool working from the same facts. Getting your team to care about the same outcome is still a leadership job, and that's the part we build alongside the systems.
8. Support
Start on day one
Ready-made skills for strategic planning, time management, reflections, and more. Paste them in and get going before the first workshop ends.
9. Facilitator
Eric is the founder of Chaos to Clarity and has coached more than 75 founders and technical leaders at venture-backed companies over more than 15 years.
10. Investment
For the founder and one executive. Six workshops, six office hours, a 1:1 strategy session with Eric, the diagnostic and deep audit, and every template.
Partner fund rate: portfolio companies of Eric’s partner funds get 50% off, $5,000 per company. Name your lead investor in your application and Eric will confirm whether you qualify.
Twelve weeks, from the diagnostic to demo day.
90 minutes of workshop or 60 minutes of office hours, plus 1 to 2 hours of building.
If it is not the right fit, tell us after the first workshop and get every dollar back.
Limited to 15 companies. Seats are confirmed in the order applications are accepted and invoices are paid.
Founders who want to go deeper continue with 1:1 AI-enabled operating coaching or a founder circle of four to six peers.
Your team builds these systems during the program, with Eric guiding the work in workshops and office hours. If you want implementation done for you, Eric scopes that as a separate engagement.
Apply for a seat
Two minutes to apply. Then pick a time for a Clarity Call with Eric to confirm fit and your track. Your seat is confirmed when the invoice is paid. Enrollment closes November 30, 2026.