A membership for women founders
tangram.
Building a business is lonely. Join a community of women who want you to win — with a vetted team on call for the work you’d rather hand off.
Five questions · two minutes · applications close September 30
Why this exists
You are tired of being the only one with the answers.
- Making the big decisions alone.
- Being the only one who has to have all the answers.
- Not being able to say you are stuck without it feeling like failure.
- Nobody who knows the heart behind the business.
That is the part nobody warns you about, and it is the part this room was built for. Not more information. People who carry the decision with you.
Five questions · two minutes · applications close September 30
About
You don't have to figure it out by yourself.
Fifteen women who left corporate to build something of their own told us the same thing. The work was never the hard part. Doing it alone was.
Tangram is the room they asked for. A peer board of women who want each other to win. Not a course. Not a mastermind. Nobody on stage.
Five questions · two minutes · applications close September 30
What we heard
Nobody left for money.
Brokers, coaches, an accountant, a stylist, agency owners, a professor. We asked what it was like and listened. This is what they said.
“We know we can figure anything out. But we also then think that we have to figure it out by ourselves.”
“Time is my richest thing. Like if I can have time to do the things that are important to me. Money is not a driver.”
“I see men networking and amplifying themselves in ways that women do not. With women I feel like we sometimes are more prone to seeing each other as competition instead of finding ways to amplify each other's work.”
“No one talks about that, Bonnie. Nobody brings that up. I can't find a conference that talks about it.”
How to get started
Three stepsThree steps, and the first one takes two minutes.
01
Apply
Five questions. Two minutes.
We read every application ourselves. No form letter, no funnel.
02
Talk
Fifteen minutes with Bonnie or Amanda.
One call, so we can match you to the right five women rather than the next open seat.
03
Join
Your cohort starts in October.
Every other week with your five, the group chat in between, and the bench when you need work taken off your plate.
Ninety days from now, the decision you are sitting on by yourself has five women on it, and the two jobs at the bottom of your list are done.
Five questions · two minutes · applications close September 30
What you get
A room, a bench, and a head start.
01
Your peer board
You don't have to build it alone.
Five women who know your name
A bi-weekly cohort matched by fit, and a chat in between, so a hard week never lands on you alone.
The inside jokes, not just the Zoom
Des Moines dinners and gatherings, and a quarterly retreat somewhere worth the trip.
Answers you can't Google
A monthly expert panel, members only, on the thing you're stuck on right now. From November.
The grant, when you need it
Members and match partners fund it. Apply for one specific thing, contribute when you can. Grants are [$X], for [what a grant can be spent on]. It opens in Q1.
02
To-do list, done
The boring stuff comes off your plate.
Two things a month, handled
2 Fracs credits a month for your first 3 months. One credit is about an hour of expert work.
No more hunting for a vetted person
Money, marketing, sales, leadership, ops and HR, tech and dev. Already on the bench at Fracs.
Hand off more without the sticker shock
Member rate on every credit, and nothing charged without your OK.
03
Stay ahead of the curve
Everything we know, ready to use.
Skip the blank page
Proven templates for marketing, sales, leadership, money and ops.
What one of us learns, all of us get
Skills for your Claude account, or our built-in AI on the group's knowledge. Coming.
A future-forward tool stack
Mercury, HighLevel, Roam, Puzzle, Gusto, Stripe. Exclusive discounts and partner support as they're confirmed.
Five questions · two minutes · applications close September 30
The Primer
A few things worth knowing.
- Lives in
- Des Moines, Iowa. Members anywhere.
- Founded
- Summer 2026, after fifteen interviews.
- Ask us about
- Running a business around a life, in bursts.
- Room size
- Twenty-five founding members. Cohorts of about six.
- Applications close
- September 30, for the October cohort.
- Allergic to
- Pitches, quotas, and anyone on a stage.
- Best at
- The vetting, so you don't have to.
- Sister company
- Fracs, for the work you don't want to do.
The Rule Book
- 01Nobody stands up and pitches.
- 02No referral quota. Ever.
- 03Women only, on purpose.
- 04Ambitious and safe at the same time.
- 05Quality over scale. Twelve of fifteen said so.
- 06Work in bursts. We plan around it.
- 07What one of us learns, all of us get.
- 08Give back when you can. Ask when you need to.
- 09A person answers. Always.
- 10Ambition, engineered for peace.
Who it's for
“I do not fit in any box at all.”
a fractional CEO
Good. Neither does anyone here. Women founders, roughly $500K to $3M in revenue, running lean on purpose. Not looking to build a team. Looking for people who already did the vetting, and a room where you don't have to prove you belong.
What it costs
The founding twenty-five.
$99 per month
Twenty-five seats · three months at this rate · $199 per month after
Twenty-five women in the founding room. Your first three months are $99 per month. After that it is $199 per month. Applications for the October cohort close September 30.
Founding-member rate: $99 a month for your first three months. After that, membership is $199 per month. Change or cancel any month, with no term and no minimum.
- A bi-weekly cohort of about six, matched by fit
- Des Moines gatherings and a quarterly retreat
- Monthly expert panel, members only, from November
- 2 Fracs credits a month for your first 3 months at Fracs, plus the member rate after
- Templates, tools and the group's know-how
- The grant, launching Q1
- A person answers, always
Membership is by application. Any woman founder can apply; admission is reviewed rather than automatic, and the room stays small on purpose.
Five questions · two minutes · applications close September 30
Apply
Take the first step.
Five questions and the one that matters. We read every application ourselves, and a person answers — usually within a couple of days, always before the cohort fills.
Then a fifteen-minute call, and if it is a fit, a seat in the October cohort. Applications close September 30.
Not ready to apply?
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The monthly download
One free thing a month. Yours on the first.
A template, a finding, a tool from the room. No sequence, no countdown, one email a month with the thing in it.