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Skip the ladder. Build the company.
A salaried role where you build real AI products with a real say in where they go, and a stake you earn over time. You're never doing it alone.
- Role
- Founder-in-Residence
- Location
- London, office-based
- Paid
- Salaried from day one (full-time employee)
Upside
A stake in the products you build, through revenue share and equity you earn over time. It grows as you create value.
Why now
The ladder is broken
You grew up with these tools. You're more fluent in AI than most of the firms employing you, and they still want you to wait years for permission to build. That ability should be building real products.
Why join
A paid, practical alternative to the MBA.
Learn by building
You ship real products for real customers, not case studies. It's the practical version of an MBA, and you're paid to do it.
Real upside
Your stake grows with the value you create. There is no ceiling on what a winning product can return.
A dynamic environment
Small teams, fast cycles, and senior operators in the room. You'll do more in a year here than most do in five.
Operators alongside you
You learn directly from people who've built and sold real companies, hands on, every day.
The fit
Who we want, and who we don't.
This is for you if…
- A real drive to build companies of your own
- You already use AI tools daily to build real things
- You'd rather talk to ten customers than write a plan
- You can move when nobody's told you what to do
- You ship before you feel ready
- When an idea dies, you start the next one
It's not for you if…
- People who only want a conventional career track
- People who avoid customer conversations
- People who need perfect instructions
- People who want AI to do the thinking for them
- People who want ownership without accountability
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How it works
From idea to your own company.
Everyone runs the same path, and you're building real products quickly.
Find the signal
Start from a problem we've already tested for real demand, or bring your own.
Prove it
Test real demand with customers early, before you commit to building it.
Build & ship
Build a real product on the shared stack and get it live in weeks.
Win customers
Land your first paying customers and a repeatable way to reach them.
Scale up
The strongest products grow into real companies, with you at the core and a stake in the upside.
The shared stack
You build on our infrastructure and our playbook.
You build on our infrastructure and our playbook. The AI stack, the tooling, the go-to-market motions and the senior operators are already in place, so your time goes into building, not setting up. It is the biggest reason you move fast here, and it gets sharper on every build.
Our infrastructure
A shared AI stack, tooling and deployment pipeline, ready from the start. You ship on rails the studio has already laid.
Our playbook
Proven steps for finding demand, building and getting to market. You inherit what works instead of guessing, and add to it as you go.
The path
You progress as you create value.
There's no fixed clock. You take on more as you prove what you can build.
Build
Get hands on real products, learning the studio playbooks as you ship.
Lead the build
Take the lead on a product and help drive it to real revenue.
Anchor a company
Anchor a scaling product with a growing stake in it. The strongest can become companies you lead.
The offer
What you get.
- Salaried, full-time
- A London office
- Mentorship from operators who've built and sold companies
- The shared AI stack and playbooks
- A real say in the products you build
- A growing stake as you create value
Straight talk
What to expect.
You'll move fast. Some ideas won't make it, and that's how it's meant to work.
The upside is real, and you earn it over time.
You're early. You'll help shape how this studio works.