Current fields
of work.
The work sits across capital, founder development, relational intelligence, and the frameworks that help people see what is really shaping the systems they are building.
Some of these are operating ventures. Some are books. Some are tools. Some are rooms. Together, they form one field of work: helping consequential builders close the gap between vision and reality.
Mark Falzon · Sydney
MAD.
Be MAD. Make A Difference.
MAD is a global venture platform for growth-stage companies looking for massive outcomes, hyperscaling to make the biggest difference possible.
It's for the rule breakers, the pioneers, the disruptors and the never-been-done'ers. For smart people solving hard problems, because the important problems are hard. MAD provides access to a global leadership network, a hyperscaler fund that extends runway without diluting equity, and an experienced bench of partners, advisors, accelerators and disruptors.
- ●MAD Founders
- ●MAD Fund 1
- ●MAD Ambassadors
"We're for the mad ones. The rule breakers. The mavericks. The renegades. The independent thinkers. The creative spirits. The ceiling breakers. The defiant. The fanatics."
Co-founded with Mac Christopherson
MAD Fund 1.
The investment vehicle.
MAD Fund 1 is the capital vehicle inside the MAD platform. ESVCLP-registered. $100M+ target. Built to extend runway without diluting equity, backing the ventures working on the systems humanity depends on.
Inquire about MAD Fund 1VC Mastermind.
The premier strategy, capital and leadership mastermind for serious founders.
VC Mastermind is the founder room built on the Venture Compass: the nine-force framework Mark and Mac Christopherson published in their 2025 book of the same name.
It's a small, curated cohort of founders who want to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be: strategy, capital and leadership treated as one operating system rather than three separate problems.
Strategically sponsored by ACFEA, with a dedicated China-aligned cohort sourced from within the broader applicant group.
- ●Built on the Venture Compass
- ●Strategy · Capital · Leadership
- ●For serious founders only
Built on the framework from The Venture Compass (Falzon · Christopherson)
The intellectual architecture.
The Venture Compass, The Hero's Journey, Métis, Creative Tension, and Know x Do. Each one drawn from forty years of fieldwork. Each one applied across mentoring, books, ventures, and speaking.
The frameworks don't live on this page. They have their own.
Solyrais.
Between the sun and the rays that reach us lies illumination.
Solyrais is an AI-powered compass for couples, therapists and leaders, built on the Developmental Model of Drs Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, the model behind 40+ years of clinical practice at The Couples Institute and trained therapists in 70+ countries.
It is integrated with Mark's Métis framework of myth, wisdom and growth, designed not as a replacement for therapy but as a support tool that helps couples and clinicians see where the work needs to happen, built privacy-first, with the regulatory frameworks of clinical practice in mind.
- ●AI compass for couples
- ●Tooling for therapists
- ●A developmentally informed lens
Co-developed with Drs Ellyn Bader & Peter Pearson, The Couples Institute
Solyrais is currently in Beta. Trademark held jointly by Mark Falzon and Drs Ellyn Bader & Peter Pearson.
Synarchos is the diagnostic platform that sits behind Mark's Co-Founders book: a tool for the people who actually have to run the business together: founders, executive partners, and the leadership pairs whose relationship is the company.
Like Solyrais, it brings the Bader / Pearson Developmental Model out of the therapy room and into the work of building things, turning the maturity of a partnership into something diagnosable, addressable and growable.
- ●Co-founder diagnostics
- ●Partnership development
- ●The Couples Institute lineage
Lineage: the Bader / Pearson Developmental Model, applied to business partnerships
Currently in private beta.
Co-Founders.
The book behind Synarchos.
The book that sits behind Synarchos, written for founders, executive partners, and the leadership pairs whose relationship is the company. The intellectual foundation for everything Synarchos diagnoses.
Read Co-FoundersThe Growth Field.
Founded and led by Michelle Falzon.
The Growth Field is the venture founded and led by Michelle Falzon, Mark's wife and a founder in her own right.
It sits inside the broader MAD ecosystem as an independent practice, with its own voice, its own clients and its own field of work.
Founded by Michelle Falzon
Visit thegrowthfield.com to read the work in Michelle's own words.
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