Most enterprise plans do not fail because of bad ideas. They fail because the room fills with smart people, everyone nods, the deck looks tight, and nobody can explain how the thing actually gets built without lighting money on fire. That quiet gap between ambition and execution is where time goes to die and careers get dents.
Force Equals was born in that gap. Not as another dashboard with opinions, but as an AI-native planning operating system that treats complexity like a first-class citizen. The company just closed a $2.2M Series Seed round, led by Cultivation Capital, and the timing feels right in the way good records always do. You hear it and think, yeah, this was inevitable.
Marc Chabot, Co-Founder & CEO, has lived inside enterprise scale long enough to know where plans go soft. Lakshit, Co-Founder & CTO, builds with the calm precision of someone who understands that intelligence without structure is just noise. Together, they are not selling hope. They are selling clarity. Force Equals takes messy transformation ideas, pulls in the right stakeholders, models risk, pressure-tests requirements, and hands teams something rare: a plan that can survive contact with reality.
Paul Weber at Cultivation Capital did not back a vision deck. He backed pattern recognition. Enterprises are sprinting into AI, modernization, and digital change, while still planning like it is 2009. Force Equals does the unglamorous work of making decisions explicit, tradeoffs visible, and execution less theatrical. That is how budgets stop leaking and timelines stop lying.
Tampa keeps quietly stacking companies that understand enterprise gravity, and Force Equals fits that lineage. The platform speaks fluent PMO, IT, and transformation, not in buzzwords, but in outputs teams can actually use. Requirements that do not drift. Governance that does not suffocate. Approvals that move instead of circle.
This raise is not about speed for speed’s sake. The capital goes into deepening the AI Planning OS, sharpening go-to-market focus, and meeting enterprises exactly where planning breaks down. The lesson here is simple and uncomfortable. Capital follows teams who know the difference between activity and progress, and can encode that difference into product.
Force Equals is not promising fewer problems. It is promising fewer surprises. In a market addicted to velocity theater, that restraint feels almost rebellious. And if you are responsible for turning big ideas into shipped outcomes, you already know why that matters.
