# We are not an accelerator. Founding Studio becomes the technical co‑founder on every venture we take on. We build the product, take equity alongside you, and get paid for developer time out of venture revenue and investment — so the studio stays funded and can keep taking real swings. ## The deal We bring Technical co‑founder, day one. Engineering, infrastructure, product craft, and the platform that lets you ship a production‑grade system in under a day. You do not need to hire a CTO, and we stay on the cap table like a founder — not a vendor. You bring The domain and the CEO seat. A decade‑deep understanding of a specific market, a rolodex of customers who would answer your call, and the will to run the company day to day. Together Aligned equity. Transparent economics. Studio equity vests alongside yours. Developer time is billed to the venture at a fair rate out of revenue and investment — keeping the studio funded without bleeding the company. ## Who we back 01**Operators, not professional founders.** You spent years inside a problem before you wanted a company. 02**Product and CEO mindset.** You are willing to own the roadmap, the P&L, the first ten hires, and the first ten customer conversations this week. 03**Long‑horizon focus.** You are ready to work on one bet for years — not shop for a better pitch every quarter. 04**Comfortable letting us own the tech.** You want a partner building the product with you, not a vendor you manage. ## Who we do not back — Founders looking for an incubator, a coworking space, or a cohort. — Founders looking to hand off the business side and stay in the code. — Founders who want to raise a round before they know who will pay for the thing. — Founders who already have a co‑founder and an engineering team — you do not need us. ## Economics, in plain words **Equity.** Founding Studio takes equity at formation — similar in shape to a founding co‑founder’s stake. The exact split depends on stage, capital in, and who brought what. Studio equity vests alongside founder equity, and in most deals a portion reverse‑vests against delivery milestones so the alignment is real, not just paperwork. **Control.** You are the CEO. You own operating decisions, hiring, and the customer relationship. The studio takes a board seat only when a priced round requires it, and defaults to observer or advisor. **Developer time.** Our engineering work on your venture is billed to the company at a fair studio rate. Pre‑revenue, most of that accrues on the balance sheet. Post‑revenue and post‑investment, it becomes cash — and that cash is what keeps the studio funded and able to take more real swings at more real markets. If a venture never raises and revenue stays modest, accrued time converts into an adjusted equity grant — we do not chase invoices on a company that cannot pay them. **IP.** Intellectual property is assigned to the venture at formation. No license‑back, no diligence friction at your first priced round. **The termsheet is not a template.** Every deal is a real termsheet designed around the real situation. We are not issuing SAFEs to strangers off the internet. ## Proof The platform is not a claim. We ship scalable, production‑grade systems — auth, billing, admin, real‑time, AI, deployment — in under a day. Every venture we take on starts on top of it. [Read the platform deep dive →](/platform) ## Apply Intentionally short. If we want to keep going we will come back with a long list of hard questions. The earlier you are in the conversation, the more the deal can flex to your situation. Name \* Jane Doe Email \* [email protected] Domain you know cold \* e.g. commercial HVAC service ops, clinical‑trial operations, freight brokerage… In one paragraph, the company you would build \* What is broken, who pays to fix it, and why it has to be built now. What have you operated? \* Teams, P&Ls, products, or customer relationships you have owned end‑to‑end. LinkedIn or personal site (optional) https://… Submit application →