Selection is the start of an engagement, not the end of a diligence process. The first thirty days set the cadence, scope and accountability of everything that follows.
In practice, we work to a written engagement plan: a small number of operating commitments from each side, a defined set of risks to retire, and a clear forum for review. The plan is short on prose and long on specifics.
Founders often ask what we expect of them in the first months. The honest answer is: an unusual degree of operating discipline, surfaced in writing, with the same legibility we expect of ourselves.