02 · Mentorship · 1:1 with Mahdi & the Trifid team

Eight weeks. 1:1.
With the people who built Trifid.

Mentorship for the operator running the business. Led by Mahdi Shafiei, supported by the senior Trifid team — the same operators behind the studio's films, campaigns and client work.

A coach asks how you feel about the business. We ask why the next hire hasn't been made yet.

Who you're actually working with

Mahdi Shafiei — 4× founder, the operator behind Trifid Media — leads every mentorship. The senior Trifid team (production, brand, growth, ops) joins on the weeks where their craft is the lever. You don't get one perspective. You get the studio.

What the eight weeks cover

Eight weeks, written down.

1. Week 01

   The offer

   What you sell, who buys it, and what you'd cut if you had to cut something.

2. Week 02

   The pipeline

   Where leads come from, where they fall out, what to fix first.

3. Week 03

   The pricing

   What to charge, when to walk, how to hold the line on a real call.

4. Week 04

   The team

   Who to hire next, who to stop carrying, what to delegate this month.

5. Week 05

   The systems

   Contracts, retainers, hand-offs — the boring parts that actually scale.

6. Week 06

   The brand

   Your founder presence, your studio's voice, your inbound loop.

7. Week 07

   The numbers

   Margin, runway, owner pay. The dashboard you should be reading on Mondays.

8. Week 08

   The next quarter

   A plan you'd defend to your board, if you had one.

How it runs

Five steps. No surprises.

1. 01

   Application

   Three questions about the business, three numbers we want to see.

2. 02

   Interview with Mahdi

   Forty-five minutes. We see if the fit is real before we waste yours.

3. 03

   Diagnostic

   Your business, our notes — written, blunt, not delivered politely.

4. 04

   Eight weeks

   Weekly with Mahdi. Specialist drop-ins from the Trifid team where it matters.

5. 05

   The plan

   One quarter, written down. Yours to run after the eight weeks end.

What you walk away with

• 01

  A pipeline you can describe in a sentence and operate without you.

• 02

  A pricing structure that holds when the client pushes back at the table.

• 03

  A network of operators that picks up when you call the next time.