04 · THE PARTNERSHIP For Mel Lutz · May 2026 · Confidential
How we'd work together

A working partnership, not a fixed scope-of-work.

Three lanes that flex month to month with what All Systems Love actually needs. Path A leans on the first two lanes; Path B opens the third. Either way, the rhythm is the same — monthly cadence, quarterly working sessions, work that shows up inside the brand instead of next to it.

The lanes Apex covers

Three lanes. They flex month to month with where you need us.

Most months one lane carries more weight than the others. In the Soil phase that's almost always Build. In Bloom it shifts toward Advisory and the early conversations on Co-sell. By Harvest the third lane is doing real work — but only if you've moved into Path B. The lanes are designed so the conversation about which is leading right now is normal, not a renegotiation.

Advisory

Strategy · Focus · Coalition

The lane that's on from day one. Apex as the strategic partner you call before the email goes out, before the conversation happens, before the next yes is given. Direct, caring, partner-over-dinner — not a deck a month.

  • Quarterly working sessions on focus and partnership strategy
  • Inbox-level advice on what to say yes and no to in the moment
  • Coalition and patron-conversation prep

Build

Web · Pitch system · Operating shape

The lane that does the consolidation work in the Soil phase. All Systems Love rebuilds its consolidated web and reusable pitch system — I guide it, work alongside you, and pull in Apex's build capability where it earns its place. It stays available for the maintenance and additions that come after. Not a one-time project — an ongoing build relationship.

  • Consolidated web — All Systems Love as the parent, sub-brands as offerings inside it
  • Reusable pitch system — patron, civic, coalition, licensee package shapes
  • Operating-shape documentation Mel keeps as the source of truth

Co-build & Co-sell

Rev-share · Referral · Distribution

The lane Path B opens. Apex co-builds one or two productized offerings with All Systems Love on a rev-share basis, and runs a two-way referral and co-sell channel for capital-raising and distribution. Worth turning on once the Soil work has proved out and the appetite is there for layered integration.

  • Rev-share co-builds on one or two productized offerings
  • Two-way referral channel (Apex → ASL coalition, ASL → Apex partner network)
  • Co-sell support for patron-investor and licensing conversations
The shape

What the engagement looks like in practice.

Cadence

Focus shifts month to month with what All Systems Love actually needs. Quarterly working sessions for the bigger calls.

Initial term

Six months — the length of the Soil → Bloom → Harvest arc. Renewal is the assumption, not the ask. Path A and Path B both fit inside the six.

Posture

Partners executing your vision, not consultants delivering a deck. The work shows up inside All Systems Love — on the web, in the pitch system, in the coalition conversations — not next to it as a separate artifact.

Numbers

We'd talk through the commercial side together. It shouldn't live on a page in a deck. We have a view on what makes sense for the work; we'd rather hear your read first.

Downstream

Case study, network introductions, co-investment opportunities — all framed as by-products of work going well, never as deliverables. If Path B is on, the rev-share line itself becomes the long-term downstream.

Why this shape

The next six months aren't predictable enough for a fixed scope to be honest with you.

Heart of LA will move when the Mayor's Office moves, not when a Gantt chart says it will. The patron conversations will land when they land. The right book to relaunch first is a call we'd want to make with you in month two, not now. A working relationship absorbs all of that. A scope-of-work fights it. We'd rather be wrong together about which lane is leading this month than be right alone about a contract that was finalized in May.

Where this goes next

If the shape feels right, the rest is a conversation. The next page is the worldview underneath the work — how we'd think about All Systems Love's future as a regenerative-media architecture.