Your founders' hardest moments are the ones they hide from you.
Sell or hold. The cofounder conversation. The quiet shut-down math. They hide these from you because you're conflicted — and you know it. Pannels is the benefit that works precisely because you can't see inside it.
Portfolio support that actually gets used, at the crux
The moment a founder hits a real crux — sell or hold, the cofounder conversation, the quiet shut-down math — is the moment they go quiet on you. This is the benefit that reaches them then: the right operators who've made that exact call, at the one moment none of your other benefits can. What makes that possible is the part below — that you fund it and never see inside it.
What you're buying
A pre-paid pool of panels for your portfolio. When a founder faces a genuine crux, we convene three to five operators who have made that exact decision — sealed, independent, conflict-screened — inside their decision window. You fund the capacity; they use it without asking you.
Bought blind, by design
The precedent is the no-strings founder-wellness pledge: fund pays, founder uses, fund never learns who. We contract it the same way — and then make it structural: in our systems, your account can join to counts only. There is no query that connects your name to a founder's panel. A founder hiding a sale-crux from their own board will not touch a benefit that reports back; blindness is not a courtesy, it is why the product works.
The red line, verbatim from the agreement: "The Fund receives access for its portfolio and aggregate counts only. The Fund shall not receive, request, or infer the identity of any participant or the existence of any specific panel. A request to do so is a material breach."
What you see instead
- Quarterly
- Panels convened (count) · median days from intake to reveal · classes drawn on (e.g., "sale/hold ×2, cofounder ×1")
- Annually
- Anonymous, aggregated "would you bring your next crux here?" scores across all covered portfolios
- Never
- Names, dates tied to companies, contents, or anything a diligent reader could re-identify
Pilot structure
- Term
- Six months, one fund, 30–60 founders covered
- Includes
- A fixed pool of panels (expect single-digit usage — rarity is the design), a 15-minute introduction at your next founder gathering, partner briefing for the moment you sense someone wobbling
- Price
- Fixed fee, tens of thousands — less than one coaching engagement per founder, priced against the stakes of a single decision made well
- Renewal
- On the numbers above and nothing else
Why this, from you
Portfolio support is a competitive weapon, and the budget line already exists — funds already pay for founder coaching, therapy, and peer groups. This is the sharpest instrument in that category: not another community, but the right five people at the one moment the founder can't use any of their existing ones. It is also the benefit that addresses the thing platform teams privately worry about most: the founder who goes quiet before something breaks.
One named contact, no sales sequence. If we're not convinced Pannels fits your portfolio, we will say so in the first call.