For experts
Turn the playbook you already have into a cap-table position.
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.
Your requests
Ranked by fitNorthbeam
94% fitHead of GTM, first repeatable motion
1.25% equity8 hrs/wkMilestone vestingCadence Health
88% fitPricing and packaging reset
0.6% equity4 hrs/wkMilestone vestingFold
41% fitSeries A narrative and metrics
0.4% equity6 hrs/wkMilestone vesting
What you get
Your judgment, now an asset.
Build a portfolio of founders you deliberately chose, each a cap-table line that vests as they hit the milestones you help them reach. This is how operator experience finally compounds.
Triage, do not browse
Requests arrive ranked by fit to your exact expertise. The founder's proof of legitimacy is surfaced first, so you triage in seconds.
Terms on the card
The equity, hours, duration and vesting milestone are on the card before you click. No negotiation theatre.
Side of desk, not instead of it
Advise part-time, own long-term. Set your hours, your equity floor, and the milestone the points vest on, without touching your day job.
Say no faster
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.
Your workflow
What it actually looks like, week to week.
- 01
Publish what you have actually done
Primary discipline, industry expertise, career highlights, and the buyer or motion you have run. Specificity is what gets you ranked, not seniority.
- 02
Set your terms before anyone asks
Weekly hours, available from, preferred duration, work modes, the stages and industries you back, and an equity floor. Founders see your terms before they request.
- 03
Triage the queue
Requests arrive ranked by fit, with the founder's proof of legitimacy surfaced first. Hold, accept or decline in one tap. Saying no is what keeps the yes worth something.
- 04
Accept, then sign
Every engagement is papered before the first working session. The equity, hours, duration and vesting milestone are recorded, so nothing drifts later.
- 05
Deliver the milestone, earn the points
Equity vests on the milestone you are helping to hit. Two active engagements is a portfolio, not a hobby.
Read this first
Bet your time like an investor.
Your hours are the scarce resource. Three things worth being clear-eyed about before you spend them.
Check your employment agreement
Most senior roles carry outside-work, moonlighting or conflict-of-interest clauses. Read yours, and talk to your employer if you need to, before you accept an engagement.
Equity can be worth nothing
Startup equity is illiquid and most early-stage companies fail. Contribute hours you can genuinely spare, on companies you would back anyway, and price accordingly.
Tax is your responsibility
Receiving equity for services can be a taxable event depending on your jurisdiction and structure. Take your own tax advice before you sign anything.
Questions
Before you commit.
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.
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.
No. GetSweaty provides infrastructure, not advice. Equity in an early-stage private company is illiquid and can become worthless. Take your own legal, tax and financial advice before you sign anything.
That is the design. Engagements are scoped in weekly hours and run side of desk. Check your employment agreement and any conflict-of-interest or outside-work policy before you accept, and be honest about the hours you actually have.
Requests are ranked by fit to your stated expertise, and the founder's proof of legitimacy loads before their pitch. Set an equity floor and let the fit do the sorting. Saying no is what keeps the yes worth something.
Your judgment, now an asset
Build a portfolio of founders you deliberately chose, each a cap-table line that vests as they hit the milestones you help them reach. This is how operator experience finally compounds.
Free to join. Nothing moves until the agreement is signed.