Six months to a year
That's how long the technical cofounder search commonly runs. Your product goes live in four weeks instead.
01 / The cofounder math
The search is a project of its own. It just doesn't ship anything.
Cofounder matching platforms, founder Slack groups, endless coffee chats. Months pass, your idea stays a document, and the developers you do meet want a salary, not a gamble. Meanwhile the actual goal was never "find a cofounder". It was getting your product in front of users.
If the goal is a shipped product: four weeks, zero equity.
02 / What the search costs
Four things nobody tells you up front.
Up to half your company
A technical cofounder typically takes a third to half of your equity, forever. Our build costs a fixed fee. You keep 100%.
A bet on a stranger
Most cofounder matches are near-strangers, and a wrong match means starting over. A fixed-scope contract carries no such risk.
Still just an idea
While you search, your idea stays a document. A live product with users beats any pitch, to investors and to future cofounders.
03 / The alternative
The 4 week build
one senior team · start to finish1Week 01
Scope
We get to the heart of your idea and map out how we'll bring it to life. By the end, you have a first prototype in your hands and a fixed price.
2Week 02
Build
Senior engineers build the real thing, fast. You see working software every few days, not status decks and promises.
3Week 03
Refine
You put it through real use and we refine on your feedback, smoothing every edge until it feels like a product, not a prototype.
4Week 04
Launch
Your product goes live and all of it is yours: code, accounts, infrastructure. We stay on to support and grow it, so you are never on your own.
Four weeks from now, this could be live. It starts with one call.
Book your scoping call →Free 30 minute video call · no pitch deck required
05 / Still want a cofounder later?
A live product makes you the pitch.
Building first doesn't close the cofounder door. It opens it wider. Strong technical people join traction, not ideas: a launched product with real users turns your cofounder search from begging to choosing. And whoever joins inherits clean, documented code they can build on from day one.
Ship now, choose partners later, from strength.
06 / Questions, answered
The honest answers.
Isn't a cofounder more committed than a studio?+
A great cofounder is, yes. But a wrong one costs you months of runway and a painful equity split, and most searches end without a match. We give you the committed senior team for the part that can't wait: getting a real product live. You can still bring on a cofounder later, from a much stronger position.
What does it cost compared to giving up equity?+
We quote a fixed price on a free scoping call, agreed before we start. Compare that to a typical technical cofounder taking a third to half of your company forever. If your startup works, the equity you kept will be worth many multiples of the build cost.
Who owns the product you build?+
You do, completely. Code, repositories, accounts, infrastructure: everything is in your name from day one. If you later find a technical cofounder, they inherit a clean, documented codebase instead of a promise.
What happens after the four weeks?+
We stay on. Bug fixes, improvements, and ongoing support are part of how we work, so you are never left alone with a codebase you can't maintain. Many founders keep us as their technical team long after launch.
Can I still look for a cofounder while you build?+
Absolutely, and you should if that's your plan. A live product with real users makes you a dramatically stronger pitch to both cofounders and investors than an idea in a slide deck.
Want the full picture first? Read our guide: How to find a technical cofounder (and the faster alternative).
Free · 30 minute video call · no pitch deck required
Six months of searching, or four weeks to launch. Your call.
Book a call and walk through your idea with the team that would build it. You'll leave knowing what it takes, what it costs, and how fast it can be live.