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We’re building businesses worth keeping.
Wellstone is a venture studio building businesses people can depend on. We bring years of working together to the task of creating, owning, and caring for those businesses over time.
The work we share.
Built around the people we serve, with care that continues after launch.
The work, in progress.
Read the LedgerThe businesses we’re building, who they serve, and where they stand.
The people are the point.
Most of us have worked together for more than fifteen years. We’ve built software, kept it running, and learned how to trust each other with work that matters.
Wellstone is our next chapter: businesses of our own, with room for that experience to keep growing. We want to put it to work for the people we serve, and keep learning together.
A little more about us
“The craft became the doorway to the people.”
Joshua W. Frappier, founder
From Faces Before Features
What holds us together
Our worth was settled before the work.
We are Christians. Our worth is given in Christ, not earned through what we build. That conviction changes the work: people before projects, truth over appearances, enough over endless more.
Our commitmentsLetters from the work.
All the letters23 July 2026 · 14 min read
Faces Before Features
The work matters. The people doing it matter more. A letter about the slow discovery that the craft was always a way into relationship.
Bring what you know.
Good work begins in relationship.
You know a trade, a community, a problem that deserves care. We bring years of building and running things together. There may be a business we can grow from that shared understanding.
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Our core team isn’t expanding right now.
Relationships, introductions, and patient capital are welcome.