Rapid Deal Design Workshop

A Stanford Peace Innovation Lab Program

Most organizations think about innovation in terms of new products or internal processes. Rapid Deal Design flips that script: it’s about discovering unexpected joint ventures between organizations that may assume they have nothing to offer each other.

Instead of months of planning and slide decks that never get implemented, this workshop delivers fast, actionable outcomes. In one session, leaders surface complementarities, align incentives, and design a $50,000-scale collaboration they can start immediately.

What Makes It Different

• Innovation through partnership — reframes negotiations as co-creation of new value.

• Behavior design for trust — uses Stanford research to engineer trust and collaboration into the deal process.

• Structured speed — compresses months of planning into days of rapid prototyping.

• Mutualist outcomes — produces ventures that are profitable and pro-social.

Who It’s For

Executives, innovators, and cross-sector leaders who want to:

• Explore new growth opportunities without massive upfront investment.

• Build trust quickly across silos, sectors, or cultures.

• Turn AI and other emerging technologies into shared opportunity rather than competitive threat.

What You Leave With

• A tested joint venture prototype in the $50k range ready to pilot.

• A repeatable framework to apply to future partnerships.

• New relationships built on collaboration, not competition.

Ready to strike a deal?
Contact us to explore how Rapid Deal Design can increase your innovation opportunities .