Sin to Synergy Institute
Sin to Synergy Institute
Codex Synergiae
Saligia Professional Development Ltd · Cambridge
Vis ex Coniunctione
Plate VII · Prima Semina
La Soglia
Prima Semina — First Seeds at the Threshold
Codex Synergiae · Plate VII

An eight-week programme for the entrepreneur standing at the threshold of their first significant sale.

La Soglia develops the interpersonal skills that make techniques unnecessary — that make other people want to engage with you, trust you, and buy from you before you have deployed a single technique.

In limine stat fortuna — fortune stands at the threshold
7
Skills
developed
55
Minimum
conversations
32
Reflection
questions
1
Practitioner
breakdown
The Proposition

This is not a sales training course. Sales training teaches technique: how to open a conversation, handle an objection, close. Techniques are useful. They are also the last thing you need right now.

What you need is something more foundational — the interpersonal skills that make techniques unnecessary. That make other people want to engage with you, trust you, and buy from you before you have deployed a single technique.

Your first customers are not buying your product. They are buying you. Everything else comes later.

La Soglia is the threshold moment before the business exists as a commercial entity — the period when the only asset you have is yourself: your relationships, your reputation, and the way you treat the people in front of you.

The first sale proves that your understanding of a specific person's problem was accurate enough that they were willing to pay for your solution to it. That is an epistemological event. It measures not your product's fitness but your comprehension — and comprehension is what this programme develops.

The Framework

Seven dysfunctions. Seven skills. One arc. Each of the seven classical deadly sins maps to a modern organisational dysfunction — a pattern that feels entirely rational from the inside but reliably prevents commercial relationships from forming. Each dysfunction is countered by a developable skill.

Greed
Strategic Hoarding
Generosity
Week 1
Sloth
Passive Compliance
Supportiveness
Week 2
Gluttony
Hustle Rigidity
Adaptability
Week 3
Envy
Vision Drift
Leveraging
Week 4
Pride
Ego Reaction
Accountability
Week 5
Lust
Status Addiction
Innovation
Week 6
Wrath
Comparison Culture
Inclusiveness
Week 7
The Eight Weeks

A developmental arc — not eight independent modules. Each week has three elements: a framework for understanding the skill, a set of daily practice activities, and a real-world outreach assignment. The assignment is not optional.

Week 1 · Critical for Greed
Generosity
Strategic Hoarding → Generosity

Give value first — without condition or expectation of return. The fastest way to make your first sale is to stop trying to make it.

Target: 10 conversations
Week 2 · Critical for Sloth
Supportiveness
Passive Compliance → Supportiveness

Discover the real problem. The prospect who says "I need to think about it" is sometimes telling you that you have not yet understood what they actually need.

Target: 10 conversations
Week 3 · Critical for Gluttony
Adaptability
Hustle Rigidity → Adaptability

Iterate your pitch based on what prospects tell you. Hustle rigidity mistakes volume for progress.

Target: 10 conversations
Week 4 · Critical for Envy
Leveraging
Vision Drift → Leveraging

Activate early wins. By Week 4 you have material — testimonials, referrals, warm signals. The skill is knowing how to use what you have built.

Target: 10 conversations · Collective Intelligence Audit
Week 5 · Critical for Pride
Accountability
Ego Reaction → Accountability

Own your outcomes. The entrepreneur who attributes lost conversations to circumstances cannot see the pattern — and therefore cannot change it.

Target: 5 conversations
Week 6 · Critical for Lust
Innovation
Status Addiction → Innovation

Solve the real problem. Five conversations that go deep are worth more than ten that stay polished.

Target: 5 conversations
Week 7 · Critical for Wrath
Inclusiveness
Comparison Culture → Inclusiveness

Expand your market. Who is absent from your prospect list — and what does their absence cost?

Target: 5 conversations
Week 8 · All Seven Skills
The First Sale
Full stack · Commercial identity complete

By the end of Week 8 you will have had a minimum of 55 substantive conversations with potential customers. The Practitioner Breakdown is completed this week.

Target: 5 conversations · Practitioner Breakdown completed

You are not a salesperson who sometimes acts with generosity. You are a generous person who sometimes sells.

The Programme Principle · La Soglia · S26-ENT-001
The Tools

Three digital tools support the eight weeks.

Entry Assessment · Before Week 0
Synergy Score
49 behavioural questions across seven skills. Identifies your primary dysfunction, shadow pattern, critical week, and accountability pair questions. Complete before the Opening Workshop.
Participant Resource · Weeks 1–8
Participant Workbook
Conversation log, weekly reflections, Synergy Score tracker, and pipeline dashboard. Every conversation logged, every pattern visible.
Exit Artefact · Week 8
Practitioner Breakdown
A structured record of commercial identity, skill development, and the relational foundation built through 55 conversations. The permanent artefact of eight weeks of practice.
Apply
First Cohort · Cambridge · 2026

La Soglia runs as a cohort programme.

A group of early-stage entrepreneurs working through the eight weeks in parallel, with shared accountability sessions and a collective intelligence audit at Week 4. The cohort is the programme's accountability infrastructure.

Applications reviewed by Glen Horn directly. Complete the Synergy Score Assessment before applying — results inform cohort composition and accountability pair assignment.

Cohort size 8–12 entrepreneurs
Duration Eight weeks
Format Weekly cohort sessions + independent practice
Location Cambridge + online
Entry requirement Synergy Score completed
Reference S26-ENT-001
Plate XIII · Genesis

Cross the Threshold

The seed does not negotiate with the soil

La Soglia is open to early-stage entrepreneurs at the point of first significant commercial development. The programme runs in cohorts. Places are limited.