Intelligence infrastructure for the game industry
Accelerators / Incubators / Funds
You can read one studio in a session. You can't read ten studios between sessions. The teams you're most worried about are usually the ones that look fine until they don't. Iridae gives you portfolio-level visibility so you catch drift before it becomes a demo day problem.
The portfolio blind spot
You're running ten teams. You have one hour per team per month. In that hour you can read the room, give sharp feedback, and align on next steps. What you can't do is watch what happens the other 29 days: which teams are quietly drifting off their positioning, which ones are building features nobody wants, which ones will surprise you at the next check-in with a story about why the market changed.
The problem isn't the quality of your sessions. It's that nothing connects session agreements to execution, or execution to market reality, between sessions. You're flying blind on the teams that aren't asking for help.
The patterns you keep seeing
- Teams build for months without sharp positioning or checking whether the market cares
- Session decisions vanish. By the next check-in, nobody remembers what was agreed
- Traction stories are thin at demo day because market work was inconsistent
- You can't tell which teams are drifting until they're already off track
Templates and check-ins give you snapshots. They don't catch drift while you can still act on it.
Iridae keeps teams connected between sessions
Iridae ties each team's production to real market signal (store data, community response, playtest feedback, player behavior), so what they build stays connected to what the market says, not what they assumed three weeks ago.
- Session decisions stick. What was agreed, who owns it, what changed. Visible to the team and to you at the next touchpoint.
- Production stays tied to market. Every sprint connects to real signal, not assumptions.
- You see drift early. Portfolio-level visibility into which teams are stalling, shipping without learning, or need intervention now.
- Teams stay in control. Opt-in, team-owned. Iridae supports their decisions, it doesn't make them.
Capital allocation improves when you can see which bets are validated vs. speculative in real time, not just at the next check-in. Better outcomes per mentor hour. Stronger traction at demo day. Repeatable quality across cohorts, without command-and-control.
Run a sharper program.
Bring one cohort challenge or one decision you keep repeating in mentor sessions. Iridae maps the tradeoffs and hidden commitments before you lock it in.
Evaluating incoming applications or cohort submissions? GMRL, a separate Iridae product, turns pitches, design docs, or Steam pages into a standardized market read, so you're comparing studios on the same basis, not across different gut reads.