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Chris Blachut

What are you really made of?

Innate Edge is a product of me scattering my own untapped potential too much, too long.

After walking away from corporate finance at 27, I spent a decade hunting for the bigger thing I knew I had in me: startups, a hostel, a blueberry export business, a travel blog. It’s been an interesting life, but a scattered one.

Chris at the booth of one of his early startups

One of many scattered (ad-)ventures.

Then two things happened. First, my son’s birth in 2021 also birthed my obsession with how to nurture his nature. Second, AI got good enough to find the pattern in a lifetime of my own data.

I finally found what made me different, and a challenge that puts it to work to make a difference.

This. Innate Edge. Find people with something extraordinary inside and the drive to get it out. Decode what makes them different. Aim them at a challenge worth taking on.

It shouldn’t take as long as it took me. And more people should be doing more extraordinary work with what makes them different.

So I’m recruiting.

If you’re up for a challenge that makes the most of what you’re made of, apply for an X-Ray and let’s see.

— Chris

The Innate Fit

Not for you if… For you if…
You’re happy to keep going with the life you’ve built. You know you’re built for more than you’ve shown.
You want to get better at the game you’re already playing. You want to find the game you’re designed to play.
You want a proven plan handed to you. You want to build something that doesn’t exist yet.
You want more confidence in the path you’re on. You’re ready to hear you might be on the wrong path.
You want results this quarter. You can afford to play the long game.
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How it works.

My job
01

Decode

I collect and sort as much data about you as I can get — assessments, outside feedback, interviews, your work.

My job
02

Converge

I narrow it all down to one pattern that fits everything and suggests a new direction that fits it.

Your job
03

Decide

You commit to your pattern and to a challenge worth going after with it.

Your job
04

Compound

You act, with each step building on the last and honing your edge.

Your scatter has a pattern.

Myers-Briggs CliftonStrengths Enneagram DISC Kolbe 360 review Executive coach Therapy Shadow work Retreats Self-help books Journaling Meditation apps Peer feedback AI self-analysis ChatGPT analysis Podcasts Self-reflection Work resume Mastermind groups Mentors

How it starts.

  • You apply. A short form: what you’re hoping to see or decide.

  • I reply. If there’s a real chance the work will be useful, I send the X-Ray questions.

  • The X-Ray. Nine questions, about fifteen minutes. You get a pattern you’re not seeing — and a look at how I work.

  • We talk. About what it surfaced, and where it points.

  • The Decode. If we both want it.

What you get.

Operating Manual

A live document you run decisions through: what to take on, what to hand off, what to stop.

A big decision

You have a long-term challenge to go after with the best you’ve got.

AI navigation

You can give any AI the context it needs to be useful, not boilerplate.

Me

You get someone on your side who’s innately invested in helping you make a difference with what makes you different.

$6,000

One engagement. No subscription, no retainer.

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What’s your next move?

Katharine

Katharine spent a decade-plus in banking while side-interests piled up — teaching, travel, writing — and no lane fit.

AFTER:

The decode showed they weren’t competing interests — they were one engine: she sees the structural traps others miss, then builds the way out. When her bank laid her off, she didn’t scramble. She landed her first independent client and started building on the edge banking had underused for ten years.

Roman

Roman built and exited healthcare ventures. Everyone pushed “the next big startup” — it didn’t fit, and neither did retirement.

AFTER:

The decode showed his edge was breaking organizational stagnation: assemble the right people, then step back. A fog of options collapsed into two clear paths. He’s now building one of them: The Override.

After the full Decode

“I had a general gist of what makes me unique, but I couldn’t articulate it. Chris put it together, and the way it captured all the common threads made so many things click. Now I have a tool that never forgets the essence of who you are.”

Paul · Entrepreneur

After just the X-Ray

“Shortly after we spoke, a friend asked me to come out of design retirement. I approached it completely differently — I let myself be only the catalyst. It was one of the most fun projects I’ve done, and probably the best logo I’ve ever created.”

Alyssa · Designer

“Far from a waste of time. It highlighted character traits I’ll hold front and centre in my next business.”

Teagan · Photographer

“A real ‘wow’ for me. The core tension you identified resonates more than I expected, given the limited data you had to work with.”

Christian · Brand advisor

Decode what makes you different and decide how to use it to make a difference.

If you’re ready and you feel the fit, apply now.

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