// boot room labs
Where the operator-craft gets built.
Boot Room Labs is the innovation and incubation arm of Middle 3rd Solutions. It's where new operator-craft methods get explored, tested, and translated into infrastructure that scales beyond a single engagement.
Translation, not transformation — applied to the tools.
Get early access →// what it is
Not a service tier. An R&D arm.
Middle 3rd Solutions is a revenue infrastructure firm. The fractional CBDO practice is the marquee work. Boot Room Labs is the sibling arm where the methods get productized — turned into tools an operator can run without us in the room.
The work compounds across engagements and shapes how M3S evolves. What gets proven in the Labs makes the practice sharper; what gets learned in the practice becomes the next thing the Labs ships.
Built on Claude. AI-native by default.
// now incubating
Four experiments. Alpha, and public.
Alpha · live
M3S Councils
Five advisors who disagree with each other, in every decision that matters. One file you drop into the AI you already use. Free.
Try it →
Alpha · building
M3S Atlas
The reference library for business development and partnerships: the reading, the case record of how partnerships were really structured and how they ended, the instruments, and a connection any AI can plug into.
In practice
Claude + Cowork inside the executive function
The operating system underneath a fractional CBDO engagement, built on Claude, run every day on our own firm first.
Static · scenarios
The Configurator
Worked scenarios that show what a BD function looks like at each stage, so a founder can find their own before a conversation.
// current work
Claude + Cowork.
The current focus is Claude — specifically Cowork, the workspace that lets a senior operator run an operating system, not just a chat window. Two ways in.
The Cowork Kit
The operating system underneath the executive function.
A pre-configured Claude Cowork setup for a senior operator: the context, the commands, the guardrails, the weekly rhythm. Not a Chief of Staff replacement. The infrastructure layer a senior operator needs so the function stops depending on them.
The Claude Assessment
Find where Claude takes real work off your plate — then wire it in.
A guided session that maps where Claude saves a working week real hours, then configures it. You walk away with a working setup and a clear map, not a reading list of tools to figure out yourself.
// how it connects
Start small. Go deep when it's time.
Boot Room Labs is where the relationship can start small. The fractional CBDO practice — Counsel, Partner, Embedded — is where it goes deep, when growth needs more than a tool. Same operator-craft, two depths.
// want in early
Boot Room Labs ships quietly.
If you want first access to the Cowork Kit and the Claude Assessment as they roll out, get on the list. No pitch. We'll reach out when the next one is ready.
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