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Millions of businesses are started every year (5.9 million in 2025). From the moment they start, the odds aren’t in their favor.
Half of those businesses won’t make it past their 5th birthday. Ultimately, 90% will fail.
The entrepreneurial support infrastructure is vibrant. Accelerators, incubators, micro-VCs, and institutions have created more paths to start companies than ever. But failure rates haven't improved. More access without better diagnostic intelligence just exacerbates the same patterns at a larger scale.
Failure follows predictable patterns across six interconnected domains. Those patterns can be diagnosed before they drive terminal outcomes.
Auxigen exists to provide insight that makes invisible conditions visible early enough that leaders can choose to build for durability instead of discovering—too late—that critical risks were missed or misunderstood.
This doesn’t happen with motivation and generic advice. It takes decision intelligence that goes deeper into how a business is running and the leaders at the helm.
The Vital6™ framework emerged from studying how businesses actually fail across industries and stages. Twenty years of direct work with founders and leadership teams, combined with research into well-documented failures, revealed the same systemic fragility: strength in isolated domains doesn't ensure survival. Equilibrium across six interconnected domains does.
Organizations are living systems where every element affects every other element. Weakness in one domain creates cascading risk across all six. Most diagnostics measure pieces. Vital6 reveals the system.
Jakob Michaelis built Auxigen to operationalize that pattern recognition—making decision intelligence accessible to leaders willing to face reality while they still have the capacity to act on it.
Leaders bold enough to build something durable deserve a fighting chance grounded in reality, not reassurance.