Work with me — for founders

Stay independent. Build something consequential.

Backing for solopreneurs with a sharp view of a customer problem and the intention to stay close to the work.

A small figure stands at a drafting table in an open field at daybreak; hundreds of ink lines rise from the table and spread into a sky of cities, rivers and ships. — Fig. 3 — One table. Everything it reaches.

Bring the insight first: who needs this, how they solve it today and why your approach could win. An idea is enough for an initial conversation; evidence from customers makes it more useful.

We can work out which constraint matters now: testing demand, getting the product into use, finding distribution or making the operation dependable. The relationship should put effort and capital behind that work.

Investment: Capital that gives a promising direction room. Terms start with the person and the business.
Incubation: Building the first real version together, operated by one from the start.
Operating partnership: Product, customers, distribution, and the decisions that make it durable.
Productive machinery: Software, agents and operating systems that let you do more without hiring ahead of need.

An etched drafting machine prints the plans of a second, smaller machine, which prints a third, spiralling inward like a shell. — Fig. 2 — A machine whose output is the plan for another machine.

Built alongside the product

A distribution path, a support model, billing and workflows that recover when something fails. Design the operating company while building the software.

How the factory develops

The conversation

What are you building?

What you are building, the opportunity you see, and where more capacity would change things. A few honest sentences beat a deck.