Micro-equity, papered
For a century, work meant wages. But the people who build the future should own a piece of it. GetSweaty makes ownership the default reward for effort, and keeps entrepreneurship human-led while it happens.
Marlow
Seed · Consumer marketplace · Auckland
Finance lead, ready for the raise
Turn a spreadsheet and a folder of receipts into numbers an investor can actually check.
Milestones · equity vests on completion
How the trade works
Four steps, and the third one is the product. Nothing moves until the agreement is signed.
Describe the work as an opportunity: discipline, required skills, work mode, weekly hours, duration and the equity on offer. Then break it into milestones, each carrying its own slice of that equity.
Experts publish the buyer they have sold into, the disciplines and industries they want, the stages they back, their available hours and an equity floor. Discovery ranks both sides on those structured signals.
Nothing moves until the agreement is signed. The compliance engine generates the option agreement covering the full equity on offer, records the milestone schedule that governs when each tranche vests, and carries the filing obligations for the jurisdiction the company is incorporated in.
Vesting is milestone-based, not time-based. Equity is earned against verified deliverables, so an engagement is a structured ownership arrangement tied to outcomes rather than a time-bounded contract.
Three sides, one trade
Founders prove and broadcast. Experts triage and protect their hours. Investors scan for signal and move.
The job to be done
Prove I am worth a bet, then get warm intros.
You are further along than you feel, but nobody can see it yet. GetSweaty turns your proof of demand into a live profile that does the pitching, so the right operators and investors come to you already convinced.
Match to operators by the buyer they have actually sold into, the motion they have actually run, and the stage they have actually survived. Not by keyword.
Set the equity, the hours, and the milestone it vests on. A milestone unlocks the equity, so incentives never drift.
Every trade ships with the paperwork that makes it real. You keep control of the cap table; we keep the paperwork clean.
Publish your proof of demand once and let it work while you sleep. Traction, team and terms on one page.
The job to be done
Spend scarce hours on the few founders worth it.
You have given away the same advice a hundred times for a flat white and a thank-you. GetSweaty turns that playbook into a cap-table position — founders arrive ranked by fit, terms on the card, papered before the first call.
Requests arrive ranked by fit to your exact expertise. The founder's proof of legitimacy is surfaced first, so you triage in seconds.
The equity, hours, duration and vesting milestone are on the card before you click. No negotiation theatre.
Advise part-time, own long-term. Set your hours, your equity floor, and the milestone the points vest on, without touching your day job.
Your time is the scarce resource, so the product is built to help you decline. Hold, accept, or decline in one tap, with clean paperwork either way.
The job to be done
See real signal, not a pitch, and move first.
You pattern-match for a living, so you do not need another pitch — you need signal. GetSweaty ranks deal flow by momentum, surfaces the founder's earned conviction first, and shows you the round filling before you are asked to fill it.
Deal flow is ranked by momentum, so the movers surface first. Conviction is timestamped, so you can watch it accumulate.
Retention and real metrics are published before you take the meeting. The team the deck assumes already exists is verified here.
Founders here are vetted by the operators advising them. Their endorsements are diligence you did not have to run.
Every position on these cap tables is papered and clean, so the trade you back is the trade that holds up.
The operators you cannot afford yet, for equity you can.Turn the playbook you already have into a cap-table position.See the round filling before you are asked to fill it.
The product
Profiles that do the pitching, opportunities that carry their own terms, and the paperwork that makes each trade enforceable.
Career highlights, primary discipline, industry expertise, availability and the hours you actually have. One profile, three ways to be found.
Problem statement, why now, business model, customer segments, stage, team, incorporation details and the metrics investors ask for first.
Milestone-based roles with equity, hours, duration and work mode stated on the card. Draft, open, matched, completed — the whole lifecycle.
Applications arrive with a cover note and rank against the structured signals you set, so review is triage rather than a slush pile.
Folder-level access control, groups, per-node grants, versioned files and a full audit trail of who opened what and when.
A platform-authored, read-only assessment on a company profile. Founders cannot edit it — which is exactly why it is worth reading.
Conversations with context attached to the opportunity or company they came from, with attachments and read state.
Mobile verification and email confirmation on every account, so the requests in your queue come from people who are real.
Metrics, check sizes and raise targets in the reporting currency that fits, with country-aware discovery.
Our why
For a century, work meant wages. But the people who build the future should own a piece of it. GetSweaty exists to make ownership the default reward for effort, and to keep entrepreneurship human-led while it happens.
First conviction
Cash rents talent by the hour. Ownership aligns it for the whole journey. When effort earns equity, the people building the company are the people who win when it works.
Second conviction
Automation will write the code and draft the deck. It will not carry the conviction, the judgment, or the scar tissue. We build for the operator and the founder — software in service of people, never the other way round.
Questions
A small, defined slice of a company's equity traded for a specific piece of senior work. The percentage is set per engagement and agreed before anything starts, so a founder can bring in several operators without losing control of the cap table.
Three groups. Pre-seed founders who need judgment they cannot afford in cash. Senior operators, usually employed full time, who want startup upside without leaving their job. And investors who would rather read evidence than a deck.
Freelance marketplaces move cash for hours. GetSweaty moves equity for outcomes, and the paperwork that makes the trade enforceable is the product. If a line could sell any marketplace, it is not describing this one.
The instrument is an option agreement, signed before work starts and covering the full equity on offer. Vesting is milestone-based, not time-based: the opportunity is broken into milestones, each carrying its own slice of the options and its own due date, and that slice vests when the deliverable is completed and verified. Vested options are a right to acquire shares, not shares themselves — they become shares only if they are exercised, which is a separate step under the terms of the agreement.
Price the outcome, not the hours: a role that unblocks a quarter is worth more than a role that fills a calendar. Whatever you land on is stated on the listing and written into the agreement before work begins.
Only the milestones that were completed and verified vest. The options attached to the remaining milestones lapse, and that equity stays with the company. Both sides hold the same signed record, so there is nothing to argue about later.
Post a role, publish your terms, or open the deal flow. Every trade on GetSweaty ships with the paperwork that makes it real.
Free to join. Nothing moves until the agreement is signed.