PEER ADVISORY CIRCLE
Join the PAC
Who do you call when you’re panicked about a business decision? For most entrepreneurs, the honest answer is: nobody.
Let’s change that.
The Peer Advisory Circle (PAC) is a 12-week cohort for early-to-mid stage entrepreneurs in Summit County, Ohio.
The Peer Advisory Circle details
LENGTH: 12 Weeks
TIME: Average 2-4 hours per week
LOCATION: In-person Akron, Ohio
TUITION: $1,175*
*A limited number of tuition assistance spots are available based on need. Payment plans are also available.
Applications for the 2026 Cohort are now open
The application asks real questions. It’s designed that way so you can get a sense of whether this is the right fit, and so we arrive at the first session ready to tackle the challenges together.
Applications close July 17, 2026.
WHAT 12 WEEKS LOOKS LIKE
The structure here is different by design.
Whatever challenge you’re facing is what we focus on in the curriculum. The structure exists to create consistency and safety. Specifically, what gets addressed in your one-on-one sessions gets shaped by what you’re actually navigating.
The four session types each do a different kind of work:
Office Hours
One-on-one strategy sessions where your actual situation gets examined. This is where patterns surface and decisions get unstuck.
Interactive Labs
Structured group sessions built around creative activities. Making something together tends to reveal things that direct conversation won’t.
Action Hours
Time to do, not learn. You and your facilitator define the format together at the close of the preceding Office Hour. It’s your time to cross off things on your to-do list with facilitated support, help from your PAC, or solo. However you work best.
Come Play
Informal peer connection with an art activity as the entry point. This is where the peer relationships form. It’s also where the program loosens up enough for something real to happen.
Explore the 2026 Schedule below
Why the Peer Advisory Circle exists
Most entrepreneurial programs rest on one assumption: if you know enough, you’ll do the right things. The people who come to this work have plenty of knowledge and carry information. So why do they still feel stuck?
They’re stuck because the weight of keeping it all moving creates a paralyzing response to uncertainty. What good is all that information if the noise in your head is too loud to hear yourself think?
A path forward does exist. But finding a safe enough space to get out survival mode is a different problem than most programs address.
Until now. The PAC addresses that problem.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You’re probably right for PAC if:
You’re still working a day job and building something on the side and you’re not sure whether to push or hold
You’ve already started a business and you’re hitting the same roadblocks
You’ve been through other cohorts or programs and left with more templates and less movement
You’re not sure a business is even the right path but something about the way you’ve been working, or the roles you’ve been playing, isn’t sustainable anymore, and you need space to figure out what is
What you have in common is this: something about how you’re seeing your situation is getting in the way of where you want to go.
This program is not for you if you’re looking for someone to hand you a plan, tell you what to do in a tactical sense, give you a lecture series, or hold you accountable to a to-do list. That’s not what this is.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE HERE
If you’ve made it this far, you probably already know the feeling:
- Pressure that doesn’t have a clean source.
- A sense that you’re working hard and still somehow falling behind yourself.
- Exhaustion from not being able to explain it to anyone who isn’t living it.
That feeling rarely gets named in rooms designed for strategy and execution. Those rooms move fast because they assume you’re ready. You’re handed frameworks for a problem you haven’t fully named yet.
This program starts by helping you name that problem.
The 12 weeks give you enough distance from the noise to hear what you actually think. From there, clarity will come from examining what you’re building, why you’re building it, and whether the path you’re on is the one you actually chose.
Pivot your idea, stall, or keep going are all valid outcomes here. Success means reclaiming control over the decision. That’s the work, and because whatever you decide gets build on an intentional, solid foundation.