Enspiral Forge — Season 2 starting 1 October
Do you have something you want to put into the world? Spend 8 weeks with smart, experienced, warm-blooded humans who'll coach you, hold you to your word, and care whether it ships.
Why this exists
"Shipping alone — or just with a bot — can be devastatingly lonely. To be seen, challenged, held accountable by flesh and bone and warm nervous systems that witness your shudders and dissociative stares… I want that."Kate Beecroft, founding member
We've been able to shave days and months off shipping. But all of that means nothing if you're doing it alone. Forge is where the humans are.Ship It — Season 1
What it is
Ship It runs in seasons — intensive 8-week cohorts built around peer coaching, weekly commitments, and a hard deadline. By Week 8, you ship. Not "plan to ship." Not "almost ready." Ship.
Show up, share where you are, get unstuck. Weeks 1, 5, and 8 run 90 minutes. The rest are one hour.
Each week you tell your peers exactly what you'll do. Then you do it. This is the accountability that works.
Troika consulting, design thinking, liberating structures, and a brief somatic opening each session — because we ship better in our bodies.
Present your project to the whole Enspiral network. There is no better forcing function than an audience.
Voices from Season 1
"Working mostly with AI, I'd started to wonder if I was a genius who could make almost anything. Then my products hit the real world and there was zero uptake. Ship It gave me back my instinct — around what's real, what's actually good."
Season 1 participant
AI services collective
"I'd been sitting on this project for two years. Eight weeks with this group and it's actually out in the world. The accountability was unlike anything I've experienced online."
Season 1 participant
Games platform founder
"I didn't expect the somatic stuff to matter. It does. Starting each call grounded makes everything that follows more honest and more useful."
Season 1 participant
Graphic novelist
Season 1
Experiments, businesses, creative work, career pivots. If it matters to you and you're ready to move — bring it. The cohort gets richer when the range of projects is wide.
What to expect
Structured feedback from people who've shipped things and know exactly what being stuck feels like.
Rapid-clarity tools to stress-test your idea without drowning in planning.
Wise crowds, troika consulting, and complexity-informed patterns for when the map runs out.
Brief practices at the start of each session. We show up more honestly when we're in our bodies.
Week 5: where is AI actually helping, and where is it quietly getting in the way?
You tell people what you're going to do. They remember. They ask next week. It works.
Season 2 starts 1 October: optimised for NZ and Australia timezones. Applications are open now. If you have something you want to ship and you want real people around you who'll help you do it, this is for you.
Sliding scale. Scholarships available.
Tell us about your project and what you want from the season. Shared with all Forge members.
Once accepted, pay the one-off season fee on the sliding scale that works for you.
Make your commitment to your peers. Do the thing. Come back. Repeat for 8 weeks.
Week 8. Present to the Enspiral network. Celebrate. You shipped it.
Optimised for NZ and Australia timezones.
About
Enspiral Forge is a Node of the Enspiral network — a community of people who've been building companies, collectives, and experiments in a better way of working since 2010.
The Forge was called into being at an Open Space near Wellington in January 2026. Ship It is its first programme. It will not be the last.
Founding members
