Direct access to two decades of pattern recognition.

The fieldwork that inspired the Vital6 is available to select leaders and organizations through hands-on engagement with Auxigen’s CEO, Jakob Michaelis.

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Engagement Types

Executive Advisory

4-6 sessions over 60-90 days

Designed for founders and executive teams at any stage navigating pivotal decisions ranging from digital disruption, strategic pivots, market positioning, and more. Work directly with Jakob to surface current conditions in the Vital6 and plan to sustain what's being built.

Workshops & Offsites

Full-day or half-day sessions

Leadership teams often operate with misaligned assumptions about capacity that remain invisible until stress makes them undeniable. Jakob facilitates Vital6 sessions that surface those gaps and create decision intelligence about where the system needs attention to build durability.

Peer Advisory Groups

1-3 hour sessions

Executive peer groups gain shared diagnostic language through understanding the Vital6 framework, learning to recognize patterns across different business contexts. Jakob brings decades of insight and experience to help groups develop diagnostic depth beyond war stories.

ESO Partnerships

Customized to program structure

Designed for Entrepreneurial Support Organizations seeking standardized decision intelligence, diagnostic triage, and third-party validated impact evidence. Jakob serves as a Vital6 implementation advisor, cohort advisor, and subject matter expert to a number of organizations.

Jakob works directly with a limited number of leaders and organizations each quarter. Diagnostic work at this depth requires focus that doesn't scale infinitely.

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Effective engagements require:

Willingness to examine uncomfortable truths

Not because it feels good, but because it's the only way to build something that lasts. If validation is the goal, the work won't produce insight. Decision intelligence requires facing what conventional metrics obscure.

Capacity to take action on what's revealed

Intelligence without agency creates frustration. Leaders must have the authority and resources to respond to what the work shows. Organizations need internal alignment to implement what gets surfaced.

Commitment to structural change over surface fixes

Treating symptoms with band-aid solutions doesn't resolve systemic fragility. This work attracts a specific type of leader: those who would rather face hard truths than be reassured straight toward failure.

When these conditions exist, Vital6 engagements create unmatched leverage. Leaders see what they've been missing, understand why previous interventions haven't held, and identify what actually needs to change.

Start with a Fit Call.

A Fit Call gives clarity on whether the conditions are right for an engagement. There won’t be a sales pitch; the goal is to determine the best next steps for the leader or organization, even if it’s not with us.