Forum™
The place creative founders go to make better business decisions
Forum™ is where creative founders bring the real situations they’re facing and practice making better business decisions.
Clients. Money. People. Positioning. Sales. The future of the company.
Bring the situation into the room. Pressure-test your thinking with other experienced founders. Use proven methods and tools when they’re useful. Then make the call.
Better judgment accelerates.
Outcomes
- Make better decisions about your creative business
- See situations from perspectives you might otherwise miss
- Strengthen your judgment as a founder
- Learn from founders carrying similar decisions
What's included?
Proven methods and decision tools
Apply proven methods for positioning, sales, pitching, finance, client relationships, and other recurring founder decisions.
Ask the Room
Bring what’s actually happening in your business and get grounded perspective from experienced creative founders who understand the decisions you’re carrying.
Decision Roundtables and Office Hours
Bring real situations into live conversations with Joel and other founders to recognize patterns, pressure-test your thinking, and decide what to do next.
Forum AI™ Copilots
Purpose-built tools that help you apply Forum methods to real business situations and decisions between live conversations.
Replay Library
Search real founder conversations, decisions, mistakes, and lessons whenever you’re facing a similar situation.
Who is this for?
- Creative studio and production company founders carrying real responsibility for the business and the decisions that shape it.
- Founders who want candid perspective, better judgment, and a place to practice making consequential decisions.
- Experienced founders who value candid perspective from other practitioners
About the creator
Joel Pilger
↗ Become the founder your studio now requires.
My first feature film, Cosmic Battles, grossed thirteen dollars. Tickets were 7¢ a pop. I was ten. I didn’t just make the movie… My BFF and I wrote the script, recruited neighborhood kids as actors, edited the film, opened a theater, and sold tic...