Institutional thinking for first-time builders.
A dedicated track for students, recent grads, and early-stage founders who want hands-on experience with modern transformation infrastructure—using real tools, not templates.
3 months free of the Action Plan. Full access. No credit card required.
After trial: continue at $49/mo student pricing, downgrade free, or cancel
Why we built this track.
The gap between what business schools teach and what operators actually face is enormous. Vision bridges that gap by giving early-career builders access to the same intelligence infrastructure used by real organizations.
Systems Thinking, Not Slides
Vision™ doesn't produce pitch decks. It reveals how the parts of a business connect—infrastructure, operations, data, customer experience, security, and culture—and where the constraints actually live.
Real Tooling, Not Templates
Work inside the same platform operators at real companies use. Modules, diagnostics, projects, and reports—your learning produces artifacts you can show, not notes you'll forget.
Constraint-First Analysis
Learn how to identify the one or two things actually blocking an organization—instead of generating a laundry list. This is the core skill of high-impact consulting and leadership.
Compounding Knowledge
Every analysis you run deepens your understanding. Vision tracks your progress, recommends learning resources, and surfaces patterns across multiple organizations you study.
Everything in the Action Plan. Nothing held back.
This isn't a watered-down trial. You get full access to every feature, module, and tool—the same experience operators pay $149/month for.
How students and early builders use Vision.
Whether you're in a classroom, launching something, or building a consulting practice—Vision gives you analytical infrastructure that produces real output.
Course Projects
Use Vision to analyze real companies as part of coursework in strategy, operations, or technology management classes.
Startup Validation
Run a diagnostic on your own venture or a competitor. Understand where you're strong, where you're exposed, and what to prioritize.
Consulting Clubs & Case Competitions
Generate data-backed analyses that go beyond frameworks. Present constraint maps, sequenced roadmaps, and ROI projections.
Independent Research
Map entire industries or verticals. Identify structural patterns across organizations. Build a portfolio of analytical work.
Capstone & Thesis Projects
Use Vision's multi-dimensional analysis as the empirical backbone of academic research on digital transformation.
Freelance & Early Client Work
Deliver institutional-quality analysis to your first clients. Vision gives you the infrastructure that usually takes a firm years to build.
What early builders are saying
Students and first-time founders building with institutional-grade tools.
Tyler R.
MBA Candidate, NYU SternI used Vision for my capstone and my professor asked if I'd hired a consulting firm. I hadn't — I just had better tools. Wrote the whole analysis in a weekend, got an A. My roommate is still rewriting his 'strategy recommendations' from templates he found online.
Naomi W.
CS + Business, University of MichiganI was running diagnostics on competitors for a case comp. Other teams had frameworks and best guesses. I had constraint maps with actual bottlenecks highlighted. We won. The judges kept asking how we 'got access to internal data.' We didn't.
Carlos D.
Senior, Stanford GSBMy startup pitch was 12 slides of assumptions. After running Vision on 3 similar companies, I had real patterns, real numbers, a real map of where the market was stuck. Investors asked fewer 'but how do you know' questions. One said 'this is the most concrete pre-seed analysis I've seen in months.'
Four steps. Under two minutes.
No application. No approval queue. If you have a .edu email, you're in.
Sign up with your .edu email
Create your Cultivation account using a valid .edu address. This is required for automatic verification—non-.edu emails cannot be upgraded to student status.
Open Dashboard Settings
Once logged in, navigate to Settings → Student Verification. This is the only place where student status can be activated.
Submit your institution name
Enter the name of your school or university. Your .edu domain is cross-referenced automatically. No manual review required.
Access applied instantly
Your account is immediately upgraded to the Action Plan—free for 3 months. After the trial, continue at student pricing or cancel anytime.
What you get vs. other plans.
| Feature | Lite | Student | Action ($149/mo) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis modules | 6 basic | All 28 | All 28 |
| Reports per month | 5 | 100 | 100 |
| AI-generated insights | Limited | Full | Full |
| Project scaffolding | — | Included | Included |
| Team collaboration | — | Included | Included |
| Learning resources | Partial | Full library | Full library |
| Integrations | — | — | All live connectors |
| Price | Free forever | $0 for 3 months | $149/mo |
| After trial | — | $49/mo student rate | — |
Common questions.
What counts as a .edu email?
Any email address ending in .edu from an accredited institution. International equivalents (.ac.uk, .edu.au, etc.) will be supported soon—contact us for early access.
What happens after 3 months?
You can continue on the Action Plan at our student rate ($49/mo instead of $149/mo) for up to 9 additional months, downgrade to the Lite tier, or cancel entirely. After the 9-month student pricing window, standard pricing applies. No penalties at any point.
Can I use this for a team or club?
Yes. Each team member needs their own .edu account. You can collaborate inside the same organization workspace with shared projects and reports.
Is this just a trial?
No. This is full Action Plan access—every module, every feature, every integration. The only difference is the billing timeline.
Can I analyze any company?
You can analyze any public-facing website. For deeper analysis of private organizations, you'll need authorized access via integrations.
The best time to start thinking in systems is now.
You don't need a firm behind you. You don't need a budget. You need a .edu email and the curiosity to understand how organizations actually work.