CASE FILE 005 · NUNET / UNDERGRYD
Building the evidence before building the fundraising story.
When product ambition is moving faster than the evidence investors need.
THE EVIDENCE PATH
The investment story had to become the output of the evidence.
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Technical ambition
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Explicit assumptions
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Product, GTM and investor logic
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Mandate decision
Evidence created
- Commercialisation hypotheses for agentic-AI infrastructure and Undergryd.
- Category, positioning and claim-level review tied to actual delivery capability.
- Capital-readiness logic connecting use of funds, milestones and investor evidence.
- Governance diagnosis covering ownership, IP, resources, decision rights and operational mandate.
Independent engagement delivered through Green Bear Consulting.
What the people inside the work say
Jörn has joined our team as a fractional operator, focusing on developing and exercising go-to-market strategies of the deep-tech product that we have developed over years. He is a seasoned strategy and operations advisor without reservations putting his energy, passion and expertise into the engagement and understanding it deeply.
At NuNet, in a few first moths of collaboration, Jörn helped us with creating clarity around commercial direction, validating assumptions through evidence, and connecting product, GTM and investor logic in an early-stage, ambiguous environment which is changing fast and in rather unpredictable manner.
From a founder’s perspective, it is a pleasure to work with Jörn. He is able to express his professional advice and opinions in a straightforward and honest manner, kindly but firmly. I am looking forward to further collaboration.
Kabir Veitas · Co-founder & CEO, NuNet.io
Jörn has been fantastic to work with. He brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and insight along with an always-positive attitude, you will never have a bad day working with Jörn.
He throws himself into the work. On go-to-market he doesn’t stop at the surface-level playbook; he digs into the commercial model underneath it, who actually buys, why, what has to be true for the numbers to work, and then turns that into a sequence you can actually execute against.
What I value most is that he’s honest. Jörn will tell you what he really thinks about your positioning, offer or your assumptions, kindly, but without softening it into something useless. That’s rarer than it should be, and it’s exactly what you want from someone advising on GTM.
Any team building toward a market should want Jörn in the room.
Jennifer Bourke · Founder, ZERO ARC AI · Worked with Jörn on the NuNet/Undergryd team
Ongoing engagement
UPDATED JULY 2026
Capital Readiness
CLAIMS · EVIDENCE · READINESS
Readiness assets
NOT A COMPLETED FUNDING OUTCOME
EVIDENCE STATUS · ONGOING · ANONYMISED
Scope and evidence
This is a current fractional operating engagement. The evidence concerns readiness and decision quality—not a completed funding outcome.
MANDATE
Strategic operating work across product definition, commercial evidence, claims discipline and capital readiness.
EVIDENCE CREATED
Assumption and evidence registers, ICP and Voice of Customer synthesis, readiness gates, positioning, investment narrative and evidence-gap priorities.
NOT YET DEMONSTRATED
Completed raise, repeatable acquisition, willingness to pay, conversion, retention or investor response.
EVIDENCE BASIS
First-hand ongoing engagement. The company is anonymised and current uncertainties remain visible.
Readiness assets are deliverables. They become company outcomes only when behaviour, customer commitment or capital decisions change.
THE SITUATION
The fundraising story was developing faster than the evidence base.
The company had a functioning product, credible technical ambition and a plausible market story. The founders could explain what the platform did and how large the opportunity might become.
What remained less clear was who would adopt first, which problem was urgent enough to change behaviour, which claims were already defensible and whether the company had earned the right to begin serious investor outreach.
The decision: raise now, strengthen specific evidence, reposition the investment case or delay?
WHAT CHANGED
The investment story became the output of the evidence system.
- Ambition was separated from what the company could already demonstrate.
- Claims were classified as demonstrated, observed, partially supported, inferred or unproven.
- The first customer and use case were prioritised before expanding the future market story.
- Customer, product and behaviour evidence replaced internal consensus as the foundation of the case.
- Fundraising timing became a decision rather than an automatic next activity.
FRAME → EVIDENCE → COMMIT
Readiness had to become explicit.
Frame
Define what the capital must unlock, who the first customer is and what investors must believe for the case to be credible.
Evidence
Review ICP, Voice of Customer, adoption, product readiness, claims, traction, limitations and the economic logic behind the raise.
Commit
Decide whether to raise, strengthen evidence, reposition or delay—and define the next readiness milestone.
READINESS ASSETS CREATED
Operating and decision assets—not completed business outcomes.
Commercial foundation
- Assumption Register
- Evidence Register
- ICP refinement
- Voice of Customer synthesis
Product discipline
- Alpha and beta readiness framework
- Customer journey and go/no-go gates
- Engagement and drop-off logic
- Limitations and claims review
Investment case
- Positioning and messaging architecture
- Investment narrative
- Evidence-gap priorities
- Fundraising governance and pipeline
WHAT REMAINS UNCERTAIN
Capital readiness is clarity about uncertainty—not the absence of it.
- Strongest initial ICP
- Repeatable acquisition
- Willingness to pay and pricing
- Conversion and engagement
- Retention
- Fundraising timing
- Investor response
- Scalability beyond early adopters
The ending remains open by design.
Investability is built, not presented.
When fundraising activity is moving faster than the evidence behind it, send me the decision you’re trying to make.
Jörn Green 