AOP 106
OperationsBusiness Foundations

Launch Ready

Registration, Money and the Readiness Check

A business is structure, not just revenue. Register it, get paid properly, build unit economics that survive stress testing, and prove launch readiness in front of a panel.

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Course Overview

What this course is

Demand without structure is a hobby with invoices. AOP 106 is three days of making the business real: entity options assessed and the registration prepared, a live payment capability with an invoicing cadence, unit economics stress tested against fewer clients and churn, and a money system with separated accounts, tax set aside and a weekly numbers check.

The course closes on the launch readiness check across legal, financial, operational and commercial dimensions, presented to a panel. Participants without their own venture run the full method on the Brightleaf reference business supplied in the starter pack.

Who It Is For

The intended participant

Operators with demand in hand who now need the legal, financial, and operational structure of a real business, built and checked before launch.

  • Entry requirements: none. Basic computer literacy and a personal laptop.
  • No business yet? You build on Brightleaf Bookkeeping, the fully prepared reference business in the course starter pack.
  • Software: free tier platform accounts as required by the course, set up before Day 1 via joining instructions.
Learning Outcomes

What you will learn

On completion, participants can:

  • Assess entity options and prepare a business registration, with awareness of when professional advice is required
  • Set up a live payment capability and an invoicing cadence
  • Build a unit economics model and stress test it against fewer clients and churn
  • Set up a money system: separated accounts, tax set aside, and a weekly numbers check
  • Complete a launch readiness check across legal, financial, operational, and commercial dimensions and present it to a panel
Course Outline

The 3 days, hour by hour honest

DayThemeContentHours
Day 1Registration and getting paidEntity options assessed, the registration prepared, and a live payment capability with an invoicing cadence.8 hrs
Day 2The numbersUnit economics, break even, sensitivity and stress testing, and the one page business plan.8 hrs
Day 3Readiness showcaseThe money system, the launch readiness checklist, and a panel presentation of the launch ready business.8 hrs

Of 19.5 contact hours: 8 instructor led classroom, 7.5 practical hands on, and 4 assessment, plus 4.5 hours of scheduled breaks across the course. No asynchronous or self directed hours: every hour is facilitated.

What You Will Build

You leave with working assets

  • A registered or registration ready entity with live payment capability
  • A stress tested unit economics model and one page business plan
  • A completed launch readiness checklist presented to a panel
Assessment

How you are assessed

Project

Unit economics and plan, 2 hours. The stress tested model and one page plan assessed against published criteria.

Oral Interview

Readiness panel, 2 hours. The launch ready business presented and defended before a panel.

Completion requires attendance of at least 75 percent, every deliverable gate met, and a pass in each declared assessment mode at a 70 percent threshold. A Certificate of Completion is issued by Future Edge Institute.
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What you earn

On completion you receive a Certificate of Completion issued by Future Edge Institute. It is awarded on evidence, not attendance: every deliverable gate met, and a pass in each declared assessment at the 70 percent threshold, with a minimum of 75 percent attendance.

That means the certificate records something you built and demonstrated, in front of an assessor, rather than a seat you occupied.

Intakes

Upcoming intakes

Intake dates for this course are confirmed at enquiry. We run small cohorts and schedule them around confirmed demand, so tell us which course you are interested in and we will come back with the next available dates, including weekday and weekend options.

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For Teams

Running this for a team?

Any course in the series can be delivered privately for your people, at your office or our venue, on consecutive days or spread one day per week around operations.

01

Built on your own processes

Exercises are rebuilt around your workflows, tools and data, so what your team produces in class is usable the following morning.

02

Scheduled around operations

Consecutive days when you can spare the team, or one day per week when you cannot.

03

Evidence for leadership

Assessed outcomes and a capability report showing exactly what your team can now operate.

Private runs for your team

We scope corporate engagements with a short discovery session before proposing anything.

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Fees and Funding

Straight answers on fees

This is a premium commercial programme; fees and intake dates are shared on enquiry. Future Edge Institute is working on obtaining its licence as a Registered Training Provider from SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG). Until registration is granted, this course is not eligible for SkillsFuture Credit or other government subsidies.

This course provides awareness and structured reasoning, not legal, tax, or accounting advice. Participants with work passes, partners, or foreign income are directed to qualified professionals before registering.

The full pathway

Organisations see the strongest results running the Adoption Series in sequence: AI for Leaders creates the mandate and the roadmap, AI at Work equips the teams who deliver it. Individuals who want to go further progress into The AI Operator Professional Series, where they build AI agents, knowledge bases and business automations of their own. The Adoption Series teaches organisations to use AI. The Operator Series teaches individuals to run it.

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Ready to build, not just learn about it?

Tell us you are interested in AOP 106 and we will come back within one working day with fees, upcoming intake dates and anything else you need to decide.