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GetSweaty

For founders

The experts you cannot afford yet, for equity you can.

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 experts and investors come to you already convinced.

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Northbeam

Pre-seed · B2B SaaS · Melbourne

Open

Head of GTM, first repeatable motion

Take founder-led selling and turn it into a motion the next hire can run.

Equity
1.25%
Per week
10 hrs
Duration
6 mths
Work mode
Remote

Milestones · equity vests on completion

  • Ideal customer and positioning locked0.45%
  • Repeatable sales process live0.45%
  • Sales playbook documented and handed over0.35%
Agreement signed · milestone-based vesting

What you get

Equity for effort.

Your cap table is the most expensive thing you own. Spend it on people who move your timeline, on terms you set, with an agreement that protects both sides.

  • They have done it at your stage

    Match on who they did it for, what they actually ran, and how early they did it. Someone who scaled a team of two hundred is not who you need at eight.

  • Milestones, not months

    Each tranche has a deliverable and a due date. Time served vests nothing, so work that never lands costs you nothing.

  • Signed before the first call

    The equity, the milestone schedule and the scope are recorded before any work starts. Nobody is relying on a handshake and a Slack thread.

  • Your cap table stays yours

    Contributors hold options, not votes. Bring in several experts without one governance decision changing hands.

Your workflow

What it actually looks like, week to week.

  1. Publish the company, not the deck

    Problem statement, why now, business model, customer segments, current metrics and the team so far. Your profile is the pitch — keep it live, keep it honest.

  2. Name the work and the milestone it unlocks

    Post an opportunity with the discipline, required skills, weekly hours, duration, work mode and equity. Then split that equity across milestones with real due dates.

  3. Review fit-ranked applicants, not a slush pile

    Applications arrive with a cover note and rank against the structured signals you set, so review is triage. The expert sees your proof before they say yes.

  4. Sign, then start

    The agreement, the milestone schedule and the filing pack are generated for you. Nothing moves until it is signed, so nobody is relying on a handshake.

  5. Mark milestones as they land

    Equity unlocks against verified deliverables. Your contribution history becomes a public track record that investors read before they take the meeting.

Included, at no cost

The data room every fund asks for, and the paperwork underneath it.

Founders join free, and free means the whole thing — access control, watermarking, the audit log, the analytics and the signing. There is no seat count and no tier you graduate into.

  • Access control down to the file

    Build custom groups, or grant one person at a time, on any folder or any single file. Each grant carries its own download permission and its own expiry, so sharing is a decision you make rather than a link you lose track of.

  • Watermarking and a protected viewer

    Stamp every page with the viewer's name, email, IP address, the date and the view id, at the density and position you choose. The protected viewer lets them read the document without a copy leaving your control.

  • An audit log, not a guess

    Uploads, replacements, views, downloads, access added, access changed and watermark changes. Who did it, to which file, and when. You can hand it to a lawyer without editing it first.

  • Document analytics

    Views, downloads, time spent on each page and how far through the document a reader actually got, over the last 7, 30 or 90 days. You find out which page lost them instead of guessing.

  • Signing, also free

    Send a document for signature straight from the data room. Place signature, initials, name, date, text and checkbox fields per recipient, and the signed original stays filed with the evidence of who signed it and from where.

  • More than experts

    Post for an advisor, a mentor, a coach, an influencer or a board director, and any equity gets the same option agreement. A co-founder's equity is negotiated separately. Course-required vocational and unpaid graduate placements carry none.

  • Real-time messaging

    Investors and experts can reach you directly. Threads carry the company or opportunity they started from, take attachments, show read state, and arrive as they are sent rather than on a refresh.

  • Publish an Investment Ask

    State the raise itself: the amount, the instrument, the market you are sizing and what the money unlocks. It sits beside the metrics you already keep current, so the ask and the evidence are read together.

The honest part

Your cap table is the most expensive thing you own.

Spend it on people who move your timeline, on terms you set, with an agreement that protects both sides.

  • You keep control of the cap table

    Each trade is scoped before it starts, with the equity agreed and written into the paperwork. Bringing in several experts should not cost you the company.

  • Nothing vests on time alone

    If the work stops halfway, only the completed and verified milestones vest. The remaining equity stays where it belongs.

  • Take your own advice on advice

    GetSweaty generates the paperwork, not the judgment call. Get your own legal and tax advice on issuing equity before you sign.

Questions

Before you commit.

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 expert 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.

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.

Yes, with one honest limit. The agreement and the milestone schedule are generated in the product and signed before work starts. For every filing that follows, we generate the completed forms, tell you exactly what is due and when, and remind you before the deadline. Some registry filings have to be lodged by the company itself, and we will never pretend otherwise.

A company profile with your problem statement, why now, business model and current metrics, plus the milestone the work is meant to unlock. Proof of demand is the only pitch that survives diligence.

Yes. Post a co-founder listing and we help you find the person. The equity split, any vesting and the agreement between you are negotiated separately. We do not paper the partnership.

Equity for effort

Your cap table is the most expensive thing you own. Spend it on people who move your timeline, on terms you set, with an agreement that protects both sides.

See how it works

Free for founders and experts. No equity moves until the agreement is signed.

Access by application

We are selecting the first cohort.

Founders and experts are admitted in vetted intakes rather than all at once. Tell us who you are and where you build, and we will write as soon as you are accepted.

Which are you

Australia and the United Kingdom open first, from October 2026. Your name and email are stored so we can review your application and tell you when you are accepted, and for the updates above if you asked for them. No third parties. See the privacy policy.