Technical partner
You bring the business problem and the product vision. We bring the senior engineering judgment to scope, build, and hand over the software without taking a share of your company.
For founders who need a technical partner without a permanent equity arrangement.
What you get
A technical cofounder is a permanent ownership decision. A build engagement gives you working software, a clear handoff, and the choice to change your team later.
The first working version of your product, built to launch and hold real users. Fixed price.
Full applications built to a written specification. Web apps, APIs, and connections to the systems you already pay for.
An independent read of a codebase you inherited or paid someone else to write. Written findings in 1 to 2 weeks.
Marketing pages for a product that has to explain itself in ten seconds.
We do not take equity, advisory shares, or a cut of revenue. You pay for the work and that is the whole arrangement.
Full repository and infrastructure access at handover, so any engineer you bring on later can pick it straight up.
Scoped in writing before we start. One fixed number instead of hourly billing, and anything added later gets its own quote for you to approve.
How we approach it
A technical cofounder is a hiring decision with no salary attached, and undoing it later is messy. The bar is high for good reason, which is exactly why the search drags.
Anyone who has run this search knows the pattern. The strong engineers already have jobs they like. The ones who are free want to see traction first, and traction requires the product you're trying to build. So you wait, and the idea sits.
Paying for the build breaks that loop. The product gets made and your cap table stays where it started. If you still want a technical cofounder later, you'll be recruiting with working software instead of a deck.
Our working processYou bring the problem, the users, and the business rules. We handle the technical translation.
Every feature and deliverable is written down against one fixed number before the build starts.
See working software every week, then receive the repository, infrastructure, and documentation in your accounts.
No. We charge a fixed price for the work and that is the entire deal. You own the company and you own the code.
In cash, no. A cofounder costs nothing up front. Everything after that depends on what a permanent share of your company is worth to you, and what the months of searching are worth. Projects start at $4,000 and most full builds land between $15,000 and $60,000.
Good. You hand them running software, a clean repository, and documentation instead of a description of what you meant to build. That is a much easier recruiting conversation.
No. Most founders we work with are not. You describe the product and the business rules. We write the specification, tell you which parts are quick and which ones will cost you, and handle the translation.
You do, from the first commit. The repository is yours and the infrastructure runs in your accounts. Nothing about this arrangement makes you depend on us afterwards.
We scope the whole project in writing first. You see every feature and deliverable spelled out against one number. If you want something added later you get a separate price for it and you decide.