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How it works

Post. Match. Paper. Vest.

Four steps, and the third one is the product. A marketplace can introduce two people. Only a compliance engine can make the trade between them real.

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  1. ListingFounder

    Post the role, name the points

    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.

    • The equity on offer is stated on the listing
    • Scope is a defined piece of work, not an open-ended retainer
    • Weekly hours and duration are stated up front
    • Every milestone carries its own equity and due date
  2. DiscoveryBoth

    Match on fit, not on keywords

    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.

    • Filter by discipline, industry, stage and geography
    • Filter by equity range, weekly hours and duration
    • Experts see the founder's proof before the pitch
    • Founders see fit-ranked applicants, not a pile of CVs
  3. AgreementGetSweaty

    Paper the agreement

    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.

    • Option agreement generated inside the product
    • Milestone schedule sets when each tranche vests
    • Filing obligations handled cross-jurisdiction
    • Both sides hold the same signed record
  4. VestingBoth

    Vest on the milestone

    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.

    • Milestones move from pending to in progress to complete
    • Equity unlocks against verified deliverables
    • Contribution history builds a public track record
    • Incentives stay aligned for the whole journey

The equity model

Small percentages. Real paperwork. No time-based drift.

Milestone-based vesting means an engagement is a structured ownership arrangement tied to outcomes, not a time-bounded contract that quietly expires.

  • What is traded

    A defined scope

    Not an open-ended retainer. The work is described as an opportunity, broken into milestones, before anyone applies.

  • Where the terms live

    On the listing

    Equity, weekly hours, duration and work mode are stated up front, so an expert can judge the trade before they respond.

  • Vesting trigger

    Milestones

    Not time. Equity is earned against verified deliverables, each carrying its own slice and its own due date.

  • If work stops

    Completed only

    Milestones that were completed and verified vest. The rest stays with the company. Both sides hold the same signed record.

A worked example

A founder posts a twelve-week GTM role at 1.25% for eight hours a week, split across three milestones: positioning locked at 0.35%, outbound motion live at 0.45%, and the first ten paying customers at 0.45%. An operator who has sold into that exact buyer accepts. The agreement is generated and signed before the first session. When milestone two is verified, 0.8% has vested and 0.45% has not.

Compliance and verification

The paperwork is not the boring part. It is the part.

Founders were already offering equity informally. What did not exist was the infrastructure to make those offers safe to accept.

  • Agreement generation

    The equity arrangement, the milestone schedule and the terms both sides agreed are generated in the product and signed before work starts.

  • Built for cross-border trades

    Agreements are generated for the jurisdiction the company is incorporated in, so a trade is enforceable where it actually happens — however far apart the two sides sit.

  • Verified identity

    Mobile verification and email confirmation on every account. Proof of legitimacy is the price of admission to somebody else's queue.

  • Audited data rooms

    Folder-level grants, groups, versioned files and a full record of who opened what and when, so sharing diligence material is not an act of faith.

What is in the product

Everything the trade needs, and nothing it does not.

  • Member profiles

    Career highlights, primary discipline, industry expertise, availability and the hours you actually have. One profile, three ways to be found.

  • Company profiles

    Problem statement, why now, business model, customer segments, stage, team, incorporation details and the metrics investors ask for first.

  • Opportunities with milestones

    Milestone-based roles with equity, hours, duration and work mode stated on the card. Draft, open, matched, completed — the whole lifecycle.

  • Fit-ranked applicants

    Applications arrive with a cover note and rank against the structured signals you set, so review is triage rather than a slush pile.

  • Data rooms

    Folder-level access control, groups, per-node grants, versioned files and a full audit trail of who opened what and when.

  • Earned Conviction

    A platform-authored, read-only assessment on a company profile. Founders cannot edit it — which is exactly why it is worth reading.

  • Direct messaging

    Conversations with context attached to the opportunity or company they came from, with attachments and read state.

  • Verified identity

    Mobile verification and email confirmation on every account, so the requests in your queue come from people who are real.

  • Multi-currency, cross-border

    Metrics, check sizes and raise targets in the reporting currency that fits, with country-aware discovery.

Pricing

Free to join. Free to be found.

  • Creating a member profile is free, for founders, experts and investors alike.
  • Publishing a company profile and browsing opportunities is free.
  • Fees that apply to a completed equity transaction are confirmed in writing before any agreement is signed. There are no surprise deductions from anyone's equity.

Ask for hours. Offer points. Sign the paper

Create your account, publish your terms, and let the fit do the sorting.

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