We give operators superpowers.
You know your industry cold. We hand you a $200K build and a partner from idea to scale — for a little cash and some equity. You own the company. We own the build.
A co-founder, not a contractor.
The difference isn't the code — it's who's still standing when the company gets hard.
- Builds your spec
- Hands back code
- Sends the invoice
- Vanishes at launch
- Validates the bet first — 30 free hours before a line of code
- Builds the whole company — product, brand, go-to-market
- Takes equity, not just fees — we win only when you win
- Stays from idea to scale — fractional C-suite, no meter running
And ~2× faster to Series A — 25 vs 56 months. Source: Global Startup Studio Network, 2022.
We own the empty middle.
Cheap dev shops only build for hire. Famous studios only do equity — and won't take your call. We're the only ones standing in the gap between them.
You pay a fraction of the $200K in cash; the equity covers the rest. We bet on your outcome instead of billing you for ours.
We originate our own ventures and hand them to great operators — or build the one you can't stop thinking about.
We don't build on a hunch. We build on a verdict.
Nine out of ten AI builds die at the demo. We refuse to be one of them. So before we build anything, we put ~30 hours of ruthless validation into every opportunity — free, before you owe us a dollar — using our frameworks, our AI systems, and decades of scar tissue across hundreds of startups. Most ideas don't survive it. That's the point.
Validate
360° idea validation — market, moat, math. A verdict, not a vibe.
Scope
Product, brand, go-to-market, and cap table, designed as one.
Build
The whole company, in 8–12 weeks — co-founding from day one.
Scale
We don't leave at launch. Fractional CTO/CMO, all the way up.
We take on a handful of ventures a year. That's not a limit — it's the whole strategy.
$200K of company, built in 8–12 weeks.
One team, every piece — product, brand, go-to-market, investor kit. Here's the schedule, and the receipt from the last one we shipped.
Empty repo → live, paying company in six weeks. Then he made us cofounders.
Run against a real 2019 injury case, the engine we built hit the actual settlement figure on its first offer — the claimant would've netted more using the software than with a full attorney.
The full teardown is private — we share it with serious operators.
We're not for everyone. On purpose.
We say no far more than yes. Four requests we turn down every week — and exactly why.
“Are you a VC? Will you invest in my company?”
No. We're not investors and we don't write checks. We invest ~$200K of build for a little cash and equity — labor, not capital. (We are building toward a fund — investors, see below.)
“Can you just build it cheap?”
No. We build companies, not features. Want a spec taken and code returned? Hire a dev shop.
“I don't have anyone to show it to.”
No network, no sales. Your distribution is half the reason we'd say yes.
“I've been through five developers.”
If everyone failed, the problem probably isn't them.
The unicorn operator.
The best companies aren't started by the person with the idea. They're started by the person who's lived the problem for a decade. We look for four things — and a unicorn has all four.
Composite profile — all four, or it's a no.
You know something the internet doesn't.
Un-Googleable, hard-won domain judgment — the moat itself.
You could name your first ten customers.
By name. A decade of relationships is distribution money can't buy.
You can play the long game.
Stable enough to trade some cash for equity and build something that lasts.
You're an owner, not a dabbler.
Principal mindset, fast, coachable, does the work.
Sound like you? Let's talk.
Bring the idea — or earn into one of ours.
Most operators bring the idea and the network, and we build it for a flat 15%. No idea of your own yet? If you're a killer operator, we'll hand you one of ours — and you earn your way to the majority.
You bring the expertise, the network, and a little cash. We take a flat 15% and build the whole company — product, brand, go-to-market, the works.
It's your company. Not a coder for hire — a founding team 30+ builds deep, with you from idea to scale.
Want to run one of ours? We originate the venture and recruit you to run it — then you earn equity on a time + performance basis, milestone by milestone, up to 70% of the business.
Run one of ours, prove it, and earn your way to the majority.
No idea yet? We'll build one around you.
Some of the best operators we meet don't have the idea — they have everything else. If that's you, we don't send you away. We find the idea with you.
We interview you.
Real conversations about what you've built, what lights you up, and where you're at your very best.
We research your background.
We map your skills, strengths, and blind spots — the un-Googleable edge hiding in your career.
We co-create the idea.
Together we shape a winning product we're all fired up to build — then we build it. And it's yours.
This is for high-caliber operators who bring the unicorn ingredients and fit the vibe — genuinely lit up by solving hard problems and leaving a dent.
You gotta vibe
No BS.
Beyond the demo. To the moon.
Anyone can ship a proof-of-concept now. The hard part — the part nine out of ten never reach — is an enterprise-grade company you can actually scale. That's the only thing we build.
Since 2022 we've invested $300K into the systems, frameworks, and tools that let a small team build companies this fast. We do it because AI is rewriting everything — and we feel a real responsibility to help the world through that shift. Building companies is how we start, not where we stop.
We build companies for operators — for a little cash and equity.
A portfolio we co-own, compounding into a fund of our own.
A fund aimed at what matters most — climate, bio, health, energy, food. Doing what we love, at scale.
We're building toward a fund. If you back studios, let's talk.
You know what's broken. Let's build the company that fixes it.
// First call is a fit + idea gut-check
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