THE DEAL, IN NUMBERS · NO HIDDEN TERMS · THIS IS ALL OF THEM

Every number, before you spend a dollar.

The page you forward to the person who checks your decisions. What it costs, when, what you own, and exactly what happens if it doesn't work out.

WHEN MONEY
MOVES

The timeline of every dollar.

Day one

The interview

Twenty minutes with Lambert about your idea, your customers, and your taste.

$0
Week one-ish

Your free prototype

A real, clickable preview of your business. Our investment — it's how we both find out if this is worth doing.

$0OUR MONEY, NOT YOURS
Only if you say go

The commitment signal

One thousand dollars, once. Not a fee — proof you're serious. It's credited into your business when we go all-in, or returned if we don't proceed.

$1,000CREDITED OR RETURNED
The build

We build the real thing

Site, payments, books, hosting, analytics, your AI partner. We carry the entire build and every running bill — there is no monthly bill to you, ever.

$0WE CARRY ~$100–200/MO
Go-live + 3 months

The only test

Can the business cover its own running costs — roughly $100–200 a month? The clock starts the day you go live, never from signing, so our build time is our risk, not yours.

~$150/moTHE BAR, IN REVENUE
WHO OWNS
THE COMPANY

You keep the majority and the chair.

We're co-founders, not vendors — our stake is the price of a partner who builds everything and carries every bill.

YOU — 50–70% · MAJORITY OWNER + CEO
US — 30–50%

THE EXACT SPLIT IS SET PER DEAL, IN WRITING, BEFORE YOU PAY ANYTHING

Where you bring more built-in — an audience, supply, a brand — your share is higher. Where we carry more of the idea and effort, ours is. Either way you stay the majority owner and run the show. How we make money: profit distributions, right alongside yours, only once the business clears its costs. Our money comes when your money comes.

WHO KEEPS WHAT
DURING & AFTER

Your idea leaves with you. Always.

Yours — forever

The idea, the name, your customers

Your idea, your brand, and your customer relationships are yours on day one and yours if we part. No lock-in, no hostage-taking.

Yours — majority

The company itself

No company even exists until you clear the three-month bar — then we incorporate together and the split above goes on a real cap table, you in the majority.

Ours

The machine underneath

The platform, tooling, and AI infrastructure we run your business on stays ours — it's what we bring to every venture.

Defined up front

If it doesn't work out

The off-ramp is written into the founder agreement before you pay anything: wind down on a one-page agreement — there's no entity to unwind, your $1,000 is returned if we never went all-in, and you walk with your idea and everything above the waterline.

THE PAPERWORK

One agreement, plain English.

Everything on this page lives in a single reusable founder agreement — a few pages, no legalese maze, signed only at the moment you say "go." Want to read it before you even start the interview? Ask, and we'll send it — we'd rather you read it with your guard up than sign it with your eyes closed.

Still true, still near the top

01

You bring the customers

We build and run everything else. Selling is your half — that's the deal.

02

Not every idea gets a yes

Our money and months are at risk on every business, so intake is underwriting. If we can't find your edge, we'll say so kindly — and early.

03

The bar is real

~$150/month in revenue by month three from go-live. Low on purpose — but if your idea can't clear it, we wind down honestly.

SEEN EVERY NUMBER?

Then let's find out if your idea clears the bar.

Twenty minutes with Lambert. The prototype is on us.

Start with a conversation

QUESTIONS FIRST?  Email Greg & Pierce — the two humans behind the studio.