Scope & Terms
Engagement Terms
Productized builds and ongoing services for founders, funds, and operating teams. Please sign in to see pricing.
We've worked with several ex-YC, Antler, venture-backed, and post-revenue founders across the US, UK, India, and Indonesia.
Productized
Fixed-scope builds.
Done-for-you software, scoped and priced as a project. Please sign in to see pricing.
In-House Agentic AI Deployment
Manual desk work hurting your business? Managing large ops teams to handle repetitive, process-oriented work? Let us help you.
We've helped teams of 20–30 operators and leaders recover over 50% of their capacity. If your data and decision inputs and outputs live in accessible software, databases, and files, an agent should be doing this work.
We scope and price against the capacity you get back — typically a fraction of one year of the headcount it frees.
- Built on-prem or hosted for you — infrastructure at cost
- You own your data, the code, and the IP — to use and resell as you see fit
- I retain the right to rebuild similar solutions for other clients (on their own time and equipment)
- Optional managed operations & iteration — we keep it sharp as your data and the models shift; or run it yourself, it's yours
Mac / Windows App
2–6 weeks of build, post completed scoping
Web Apps
2–4 weeks, depending on scope
Small–Medium Android / iOS Apps
We don't typically build these, but we can.
2–6 months, scope dependent
Full-time leadership
Full-time leadership.
One full-time seat — owning product, engineering, and roadmap. Priced annually, capped on hours, equity proportional to stage.
Comp targets $500k–$1M per year, independent of hours worked. Anything ~30+ hours a week is effectively a full-time slot, so it carries equity proportional to the commitment. Cash flexes down only because equity flexes up.
Title-agnostic by design. I optimize for scope and the cap table, not the title. For the right company I'll sit lower on the ladder — VP Product / AI, Director, Principal — or run a forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pod. The comp band and equity logic hold; the label flexes to fit your org chart.
- CEO / Portfolio CEO — Pre-financed and incentive-led; additional upside required.
- Fund / PE operator — Base + carry (expected) — per-deal on companies I operate by default, a fund-pool slice when embedded across the portfolio.
- Exclusive engagement — one full-time seat at a time.
- Equity is alignment proportional to the commitment and the opportunity cost of a full-time slot, not a premium.
Fractional & advisory
Rent my time.
Below ~15 hours a week is cash plus token equity. At or above, it carries real equity. Ad-hoc / overage isn't a standing offer — retainers and the full-time conversation are the product.
Spot / Strategic Advisor
Lightweight, high-leverage advisory across product, GTM, and engineering — by the hour, no minimum.
- i.Ad-hoc, billed by the hour
- ii.No retainer, no minimum commitment
- Reviewing technical architecture
- Interviewing engineering and product hires
- Reviewing product and business strategy
- Brand, design, and positioning
- Network introductions and extensions
- Token equity, only on a recurring relationship
- 2-year monthly vesting · no cliff · single-trigger acceleration
Operational / Technical Advisor
Hands-on advisory for startups and funds — twice-weekly cadence.
- i.$3.5k/mo floor — 8 hours per month (2 meetings per week)
- ii.Beyond the floor: case-by-case, not a standing offer
In addition to Spot advisory, in scope:
- Architecture design
- MVP development (ad-hoc, per agreement)
- Investment / pitch and ad-hoc strategic client support
For funds, FoFs, and investment firms (billed as share of carry — see govclab.com/venture-share).
- a.Technical diligence meetings
- b.Strategic advisory for portcos
- c.Fund strategy
- Base equity · 2-year monthly vesting
- No cliff · single-trigger acceleration on acquisition
Fractional CPTO
Fractional ownership of product, engineering, and roadmap. 15–25 h/week, capped.
A single technical resource that works as well as five. In a post-AI market I compress MVP and product cycles to 3–4 weeks, spin off agentic workflows, and de-risk revenue, product, strategy, and downstream investment. Founders have leveraged me to clear technical due diligence and earn investor trust to unblock funding. I bring product and engineering experience at $500M ARR and billion-user scale across multiple product families and geographies.
- i.15–25 hours per week, capped
- ii.The cap is the upsell to full-time, not a meter
In addition to Advisor scope, in scope:
- Managing product and engineering teams, and general management
- Owning the product roadmap
- Client and P&L ownership
- Mandatory — real skin in the game for 15+ h/wk
- Inverse to the cash rate (see slider)
- 2–4yr monthly vesting · no cliff · double-trigger acceleration
Where you land on the slider tracks capitalization — cash-light leans equity, well-capitalized leans cash.
Outsourced Product / Engineering Org + CPTO
Studio model — preserve cap-table while securing architectural leadership and rapid execution.
For founders seeking to preserve cap-table space while still securing strong architectural leadership and rapid execution, we can deploy a studio model. Great for founders looking to focus solely on GTM / fundraise and bring me along.
- i.My personal time: included CPTO oversight (2 meetings per week)
- ii.Extended product, engineering, and design team, staffed to your needs
Same scope as Fractional CPTO, with these adjustments:
- Non-strategic engagement with your clients is managed by my team
- Managing employees inside your organization is out of scope
- Base equity · 2-year monthly vesting
- No cliff · double-trigger acceleration on acquisition
- i.You may list and leverage me personally as CPTO (for investor relations and strategy); I sign off on the team's work.
- ii.Allows non- or semi-technical founders to outsource all product and engineering while keeping a clean cap-table.
- iii.Created IP belongs to you (provided the studio is not barred from any future business).
- iv.Requires at least a 6-month commitment with the studio (minimum 600 hours), plus the base CPTO retainer.
Investors & LPs
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Specific vesting mechanics and acceleration triggers are outlined within each tier. Custom engagement blends, extended studio capacity, and fund-specific arrangements are scoped on request.