Understand when a lean-retainer plus equity partnership is credible, what each side must own, and why most ideas should use normal paid delivery instead.
Clean build · Fast delivery · Scalable foundation · Less burn
Built for
Founders building a defensible long-term company who need ongoing technical leadership and can offer real shared upside.
Intended outcome
A clear partnership conversation grounded in commitment, ownership, runway, and milestones—not desperation for free development.
Lower cash, never zero commitment
Real technical ownership
Selection based on conviction and fit
Prove founder commitment and market insight
Define the technical partner's real scope
Agree cash, equity, and decision rights
Review the bet at explicit milestones
Most founders bring a monthly budget and hire us to deliver. A few bring a vision strong enough for us to join the bet. Both models stay lean, direct, and accountable.
Build + maintain
You set the cash ceiling. We cut the scope to fit, ship working software every week, launch it, and keep it healthy. No hourly mystery. No hostage code.
Virtual CTO partnership
For a small number of serious, long-horizon products, we join as the technical partner: roadmap, architecture, hiring, delivery, and scale. Lower cash. Real equity. Shared upside.
No. Zero-cash builds create weak accountability and misaligned risk. Our partnership model uses a lean cash retainer plus equity and is reserved for a small number of ventures.
There is no responsible universal number. It depends on stage, cash contribution, time commitment, responsibility, vesting, existing progress, and risk. Get independent legal and financial advice.
Deep founder insight, credible commitment, a meaningful market, honest access to users, strong working chemistry, and a product where technical execution can create durable advantage.
A practical way to build software month by month without pretending you have enterprise money or accepting disposable code.
Turn a strong idea into the smallest credible product that can prove demand, behavior, or willingness to pay.
How a non-technical founder can validate, build, and operate a product without handing control to the first developer who says yes.
Bring the workflow, idea, or delivery mess. We’ll cut it to the leanest credible build and tell you which partnership model fits.