Founders · Experts · Investors
The marketplace where founders, senior operators and investors find each other and trade small equity for real work. Every trade is papered before it starts, and every milestone is recorded as it lands.
Free for founders and experts. Opens in Australia and the United Kingdom, September 2026.
Three sides, one trade
Founders bring the company and the equity. Experts bring the judgment and the hours. Investors read what both of them did. Nobody has to go looking anywhere else.
Equity for effort.
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.
Everything for foundersYour judgment, now an asset.
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.
Everything for expertsSignal, not slides.
You pattern-match for a living, so you do not need another pitch. Founders here publish their metrics as structured fields, and the operators advising them have taken equity to do it.
Everything for investorsHow 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 produces the filing pack and deadline schedule 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.
What a listing looks like
Marlow
Seed · Consumer marketplace · Auckland
Fractional CFO, through to Series A
Build the finance function a Series A diligence process survives: the operating model, the monthly close, the board reporting and the data room behind them.
Milestones · equity vests on completion
The evidence
Three checkable facts and no adjectives: a number we measured, a trade that completed, and a date.
68%
Of professionals surveyed are interested
They want equity for the kind of senior, part-time work this platform is built around. The number is our own, from our own survey of the market we are opening in.
One
Trade completed end to end
A micro-equity trade has already been run all the way through by hand, through Ownourship. The model is not a hypothesis; the software is what makes it repeatable.
September 2026
Launching in Australia and the United Kingdom
A market opens once its paperwork is built. Canada, New Zealand and the United States are next on that list.
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.
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.
Custom groups and per-person grants on any folder or file, download control and an expiry on each grant, watermarking, a protected viewer, versioned files and a full audit trail. Free, all of it.
A read-only record on every company profile: the operators who took equity to work on it, the milestones verified, and when each metric was last updated. Founders cannot edit it, which is exactly why it is worth reading.
Conversations delivered as they are sent, with the opportunity or company they came from attached, plus files and read state. Investors and operators can reach a founder directly.
Send a document for signature with the fields placed where they belong — signature, initials, name, date, text, checkbox — one set per recipient. The signed original and its evidence stay together. Also free.
Founder pitches as deck and video, one at a time, full screen. The pitch as the founder made it, not as somebody summarised it.
Publish the raise itself: the amount, the instrument, the market being sized and what the money unlocks, next to metrics that already carry a date.
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.
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.
Yes, through real-time messaging, with the company or opportunity the conversation started from attached to the thread. Your data room is separate: an investor can request access from your Investment Ask, and you decide what they see folder by folder. Nothing opens because they asked.
Freelance marketplaces move cash for hours. GetSweaty moves equity for outcomes, and the paperwork that makes the trade enforceable is the product.
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. Write each milestone as something the operator delivers and you can verify by looking at it, not as a company result that depends on things outside their control. Vague milestones and unwinnable milestones both end the same way. Whatever you land on is stated on the listing and written into the agreement before work begins.
We open in Australia and the United Kingdom in September 2026. Join the list and we will write the day your market opens.
Free for founders and experts. Nothing moves until the agreement is signed.