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Strodey Circles is small, vetted, structured, and manually matched. The short conversation is about context, goals, peers, and whether the group can be worth your time.

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Your personal board of advisors for ambiguous work.

Finally, the community you have always wanted to join: a small, vetted peer circle for founders, builders, product and business leaders, and hands-on decision-makers who want a practical board of advisors for ambiguous work.
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No vendors. No pitches. No spam. Structured conversation, practical frameworks, peer feedback, and AI/workflow examples focused on what's actually working for other operators, not vague frameworks or fluff.

Six weeks. 4-6 people. One West Coast-friendly time.

A small group for ambiguous work not status performance.

You are dealing with ambiguous work and need sharper outside perspective.

The mechanism is context-rich peer feedback, practical frameworks, and a small consistent group.

Concrete topics can include hard decisions, AI/tool workflows, stakeholder politics, founder, business, or product problems, and what peers are actually doing.

The group works best when members bring real problems, speak candidly, ask useful questions, and keep the conversation practical.

You do not need to pretend you have everything figured out. The circle is most useful when people can bring unfinished thinking, real constraints, and honest questions.
What this is

A practical board of advisors for real work, not a passive community.

The first cohort is early-stage, intentional, free, and manually matched around fit so you can surround yourself with a community of peers doing the work.

How fit is screened

Built around contribution, not audience size.

  • Manually matched
  • Small cohort
  • Real work only
  • Bring real context active decisions, systems, stakeholders, or AI/workflow ambiguity you are working through now.
  • Contribute signal specific examples, useful questions, direct feedback, and enough brevity to make room for others.
  • Show up consistently six live sessions plus about one hour of preparation or follow-through between sessions.

The bar is fit for the room, not status. The group works when each person brings unfinished thinking and practical context.

Five copy pillars

  1. Advisor context Personal board of advisors for ambiguous work.
  2. Signal over noise High-signal, low-noise peer conversation.
  3. Practical tools Practical frameworks, decision tools, and AI/workflow examples.
  4. Real problems Real problems, not status performance.
  5. Small matched cohort Six-week, small, vetted, manually matched first cohort.

A small group for ambiguous work not status performance.

This is for you if

  • You are a founder, builder, product or business leader, or hands-on decision-maker working through ambiguous problems.
  • You want a small group that feels closer to a practical board of advisors than a course, generic networking group, or passive online community.
  • You are making decisions, navigating stakeholders, improving workflows, building something, or trying to use AI/tools more effectively in real work.
  • You want practical frameworks, useful questions, and peer feedback that are concrete enough to apply but not so narrow they only fit one person's situation.
  • You are willing to bring real context, including unfinished thinking, open questions, constraints, tradeoffs, or a problem you are actively working through.
  • You can contribute high-signal, low-noise conversation with specific context, useful questions, direct feedback, and enough brevity to make room for others.
  • You can attend the six-week cohort consistently and spend about one hour between sessions preparing, following through, or connecting the topic to your own work.
  • You want a candid but non-judgmental room where people do not need to pretend they have everything figured out.

This is not for you if

  • You mainly want to listen passively without bringing real work, questions, or decisions into the room.
  • You are looking for a guru-led course, a fixed training program, a therapy group, a job-search support group, or a large networking community.
  • You prefer generic advice, status signaling, or broad discussion over specific examples, practical questions, and concrete next steps.
  • You tend to dominate conversations, give long monologues, or take time away from others without adding enough value.
  • You are not planning to attend most or all sessions.
  • You are not comfortable sharing anything unfinished, uncertain, or real about what you are working through.
  • You are looking to troll, posture, sell aggressively, or use other people's openness against them.
  • You want AI/workflow help or decision-making tools without also participating in peer feedback and group discussion.

Requesting a spot

  1. Request share your context, goals, and the kind of ambiguous work you are navigating.
  2. Talk have a 15-30 minute conversation about fit, peers, and whether the group can be worth your time.
  3. Match join a small, manually matched group if there is a strong fit for this first cohort.
  4. Participate show up consistently, bring real problems, help others, and do about one hour of individualized work between sessions.

How sessions work

Each session has a clear theme, but members connect the theme to a real decision, workflow, stakeholder problem, or project they are working through.

  • Group size

    4-6 people in a small, manually matched first cohort.

  • Weekly session length

    60-90 minutes live each week at one West Coast-friendly time.

  • Between-session prep

    About one hour of preparation or follow-through between sessions.

  • Useful outputs

    Useful ideas, simple frameworks, practical artifacts, and peer feedback you can apply to your own work.

Cohort schedule

Upcoming cohort times

Review the session dates before applying. Applications happen in the external form, where you can select the cohort you want to attend.

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Cohort Dates Time Price
Cohort Cohort #1 Sundays
Dates
  1. Jul 12
  2. Jul 19
  3. Jul 26
  4. Aug 2
  5. Aug 9
  6. Aug 16
Time 10:00 PM-11:30 PM PT
Price Free
Cohort Cohort #2 Mondays
Dates
  1. Jul 13
  2. Jul 20
  3. Jul 27
  4. Aug 3
  5. Aug 10
  6. Aug 17
Time 6:00 PM-7:30 PM PT
Price Free
Cohort Cohort #3 Thursdays
Dates
  1. Aug 27
  2. Sep 3
  3. Sep 10
  4. Sep 17
  5. Sep 24
  6. Oct 8
Time 6:00 PM-7:30 PM PT
Price Free
First cohort

Six weeks of structured peer conversation

You will spend six weeks in a small, carefully selected group of thoughtful peers, using structured conversations to get sharper on decisions, stakeholder challenges, AI/workflow ambiguity, and the projects or career moves you are trying to move forward.

About Me

Who you will work with

Every circle is facilitated by Luis Cinza, a former Amazon product and operations leader who has launched products globally, aligned cross-functional teams, and replaced thousands of manual hours with reliable systems.

Practical product, technical, operator, and decision-systems experience.

Luis is not facilitating this because he has all the answers. His role is to create the container, ask useful questions, keep the discussion moving, and contribute what he knows while learning from everyone else in the room.

{'Strodey Circles is designed as a practical, lower-cost alternative to broad expensive communities': 'a small peer container where people can help each other think better, share useful tools, and make progress on real work.'}

Useful context

Product, operations, systems, and practical frameworks

  • Product judgment: shaped roadmaps, launches, experiments, and tradeoff decisions across complex work.
  • Technical judgment: built software and systems for automation, workflow design, and operational leverage.
  • Operator context: worked across product, technology, operations, and business problems where there is rarely a perfect answer.
  • Decision systems: brings a serious interest in how people communicate tradeoffs, make decisions, and turn messy work into clearer systems.