For C-suite executives & senior domain leaders · By application only

The company only you could build — launched alongside you.

Built for senior executives and domain leaders who know their sector inside out and are ready to back their conviction — without leaving their role until the numbers justify it.

Founder75 pairs you with a technical co-founder and a growth co-founder — each with their full teams. In return for equity, we give you something better than cash: virtual capital in the form of a billable team, deployed at cost to your company. The same team we could bill to other clients at full market rates — we invest as leverage on your capital, extending your runway and multiplying what gets built.

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75% or more equity — yours always Start without leaving your role Team billed at cost — not market rate profit 1.3–2.0× leverage on your capital

What equity buys you

Virtual capital — in the form of a billable team

⚡ We hold equity. In return, we deploy a full tech & growth team — at cost to your company, not at billing profit. This team could be invoicing other clients at full UK market rates. Instead, we invest those hours as virtual capital into your company. Your £35k in cash becomes the foundation; our team becomes the leverage that extends your runway and multiplies what gets built.

Your cash capital

£35k

Into your company's bank account

Our virtual capital

£30–35k

Billable team hours, invested as equity

Total runway value

£65–70k

1.3–2.0× leverage on your capital

No markup. No agency margin. Billed at cost because the equity is our return — and our return only materialises when yours does.

On your cap table, day one

Three partners. One aligned team.

Buildnetic

Technical co-founder + dev team

CTO

Digiconnekt

Growth co-founder + marketing team

CMO

Your capital

Stays in your account as runway

100%

You

Founder & majority owner

75–91%

⚡

Virtual capital (B+D)

Billable team hours invested at cost —
our equity stake, not our fee

1.3–2.0×leverage

The real cost of waiting

There's an idea you keep coming back to. The question is whether you'll ever build it.

If you wait

Another year in the role

The idea stays a note on your phone. Someone with less domain depth ships it first. You stay excellent at running someone else's plan — and never find out what your own was worth.

If you build

A real company, with your name on it

Built by a senior team, taken to market in parallel, with you in control. In 6–12 months you find out what it's worth. Most people never give themselves the chance to.

Don't retire wondering what would have happened. The hardest part was never building it — it was deciding to.

The partnership

Not an agency. Two co-founders who put their own skin in.

A freelancer ships and leaves. A co-founder is bound to the outcome. Buildnetic and Digiconnekt bring their teams and take equity instead of profit — so their incentive is identical to yours: make this company worth something.

Buildnetic — Technical Co-founder

The team that builds it

A CTO function + senior product & engineering team

Product architecture & technical roadmap, owned end-to-end
Full-stack build of your MVP — designed, built, tested, shipped
Cloud, infrastructure, integrations and security
Weekly working-software demos — progress you can see

Digiconnekt — Growth Co-founder

The team that sells it

A CMO function + brand, content & acquisition team

Brand, positioning and messaging that lands with your buyers
Customer validation while the product is still being built
Launch campaigns, paid acquisition and an inbound engine
Analytics, growth reporting and a repeatable funnel

A technical co-founder alone takes 20–40%. A growth co-founder takes more. You get both — teams included — and still keep the majority.

Why your capital is yours

If we wanted your money, we'd send an invoice.

We don't. Your cheque never becomes our revenue — it stays in your company as runway, and as proof you're all in. Our payday is the same as yours: the equity, years from now, only if this works.

It stays in your account

Your capital goes into your company's bank account as runway. It is never paid to us as profit.

We bill only at cost

Our team is billed to the company at cost. The value we deliver above that cost is what we invest — and it's what the equity buys.

Equity is our only upside

We take a minority stake instead of a margin. We win only when your company grows. That's the alignment, in one line.

You form a company

A new UK Ltd is incorporated — you are the director and majority shareholder from day one.

Your capital goes in

Your investment goes into the company's bank account as working capital. You control every payment.

We invoice at cost

Buildnetic and Digiconnekt invoice your company at cost — no agency margin, no billing profit. The equity is our return. You approve every invoice as director.

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This is leverage, not charity. The team we deploy to your company could be billing other clients at full UK market rates (£120–180/hr). Instead, we invoice you at cost and hold equity. Your £35k in cash is amplified by virtual capital — billable hours invested as our co-founder stake. Our equity only has value when your company does.

💷 SEIS: your £35k may cost you £17,500

For qualifying UK taxpayers, the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme gives 50% income tax relief on investments up to £50,000. Your effective out-of-pocket could be half the headline number. We structure every company to be SEIS-eligible from day one — speak to your accountant.

How the build actually works

Three phases. No surprises.

Every sprint has a defined structure, clear triggers, and a mutual decision point at the end. You know exactly what happens — and when — before you sign anything.

Months 1–5 · Phase 1

Full sprint

Full cross-functional team on your build. Scope is locked at kickoff — no scope creep, no moving goalposts. Weekly working-software demos so you're never in the dark.

Month 4 gate: a formal mid-point review. ≥80% done = green. 50–80% = scope cut + corrective plan. <50% = root-cause review. You're never surprised at Month 5.

400 hrs/mo · Full team

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Months 6–7 · Bridge (if needed)

The bridge

If the build needs runway beyond Month 5, we stay on at half-pace — at no additional cash cost to you. The bridge is funded from within the equity stake we already hold. You don't pay more. We don't disappear.

200 hrs/mo · Half-pace · Zero extra cash

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Month 7 · Hard stop

Mutual decision point

Not an abandonment — a structured review. Both sides assess what's been built and whether to continue. Extending is your choice: grant additional equity (typically +3–5%) and we continue part-time. Stopping gives both sides a clean exit. The hard stop exists to protect you from unlimited dilution.

Review · Extend on equity · Or exit cleanly

After the sprint, most founders move to a £3,000/month retainer (113 hrs/month), raise a seed round with B+D on the cap table as allies, or scale independently with full code ownership from day one.

Your equity, your call

75% is your floor. Conviction earns more.

The number in our name is the promise: you keep at least 75%. From there, one simple rule — the more you fund the build yourself, the more runway you create and the less we carry, so you keep even more. Move the slider.

You invest into your company

£75k

MVP + 90-day GTM push

£35k£120k£250k

20%

We hold

7 mo

Phase 1

1 mo

Bridge

400 hrs/mo · Phase 1

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200 hrs/mo · bridge

Your £75k deploys £98k of team capacity 1.3×

Leverage = team hours × our rate ÷ your cash. At £35k our large equity stake (25%) funds significant co-investment. At mid tiers equity drops, so leverage dips to ~1.3×. At £175k+ the team scales to 600–800 hrs/month — the sheer hours pull leverage back up to 1.4–1.8×. The gap in every case is our opportunity cost: team time we could bill elsewhere, funded by our equity stake.

After hard stop:+4% equity → 2 more months part-time

✓ All capital stays in your company — no deposit to us

80%

You keep

More cash in → more equity you keep. Always — never the reverse.

For comparison, a venture studio takes 30–60% and funds everything. You fund it, keep the majority, and get both a tech and a growth team. Figures illustrative — confirmed against your build.

Full billing transparency

Every role. Every rate. Nothing hidden.

We bill at offshore market cost + 15% management margin — the same you'd pay a reputable delivery partner, without the agency premium. Verify every invoice against this table.

Role	Our rate (offshore + 15%)	UK market equivalent	Your saving
Technical Architect	£55/hr	£130/hr	58% less
Senior Full-Stack Developer	£46/hr	£110/hr	58% less
Mid Developer	£35/hr	£80/hr	56% less
Junior Developer	£28/hr	£60/hr	53% less
QA / Test Engineer	£28/hr	£65/hr	57% less
DevOps / Cloud Engineer	£40/hr	£95/hr	58% less
Product Manager	£40/hr	£95/hr	58% less
Growth Marketer	£30/hr	£75/hr	60% less
Content Writer / Copywriter	£22/hr	£55/hr	60% less
SEO Specialist	£25/hr	£60/hr	58% less
UX / Brand Designer	£32/hr	£80/hr	60% less

Buildnetic team · Digiconnekt team

At £35k · 400 hrs/month, your typical team is: 1 Senior Dev + 1 Mid Dev + 1 PM (part-time) + 1 Marketer + 1 Designer. At UK market rates, that team costs ~£190,000 per year. You're accessing it for £35k.

💷 SEIS: your real cost could be half

For qualifying UK taxpayers, SEIS gives 50% income tax relief on up to £50k invested. Your effective cost on a £35k investment: ~£17,500. We structure every company to be SEIS-eligible from incorporation. Confirm with your accountant — the numbers change significantly.

What you own. Always.

Your company. Your code. Your rules.

We take a minority equity stake — which means you control the company, the IP, and the decisions. These are the protections that come standard with every partnership.

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You own all the IP

Every line of code, every design asset, every marketing asset — created under the Founder75 sprint — belongs to your company from day one. Not licensed to you. Owned by you. Even if the partnership ends at Month 1.

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You control the board

B+D hold ordinary minority shares — no veto rights, no special voting class, no board seat by default. You are the director. You approve every invoice, every hire, every strategic pivot. Minority equity doesn't mean minority control.

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Named team from day one

You meet the team before you sign. The same named individuals work your build throughout Phase 1. No bait-and-switch to juniors after Month 1. If a team member changes, you're notified and approve the replacement.

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Live repo access, always

Your code lives in your GitHub organisation from day one. You have full access throughout — not a handover at the end. If you stop the sprint tomorrow, you keep everything that's been built.

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Sector exclusivity

We don't take competing builds in your sector for the duration of the sprint. Before we accept your application, we run a conflict check. If there's a conflict, we tell you — and you decide whether to proceed.

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References on request

Before you sign, we'll connect you directly with founders we've worked with previously. No curated testimonials — real conversations with people who've been through the process. We'd expect the same if positions were reversed.

Common questions

The questions we get asked before people apply.

That's what the bridge is for. If the build needs runway beyond Month 5, we continue at 200 hrs/month for up to 2 more months — at no additional cash cost to you. This is funded from within the equity we already hold. At Month 7 there's a mutual decision point: extend further (your choice, via additional equity) or exit cleanly. The bridge means you're never left with a half-built product.

You could — and many founders do. The difference is alignment. A dev shop takes your brief and builds what you specify. We take equity, which means we're invested in whether it works commercially, not just whether the code ships. You're also getting a growth co-founder (Digiconnekt) alongside the tech — most dev shops don't take your product to market. And crucially, we co-invest: we deploy team capacity we could be billing elsewhere, funded by our equity stake. The comparison isn't dev shop vs. Founder75. It's "two co-founders with teams who have skin in the game" vs. "a dev shop." At that comparison, 25% or less equity is not just cheap — it's the better structure.

No. We hold ordinary minority shares with no special voting rights, no veto, and no board seat by default. You are the company director. You approve every invoice, every spend, every strategic decision. A 25% or less minority stake in a company you control is meaningless as leverage against you — as it should be.

Typically 8–12 hours per week during Phase 1. The team handles daily execution — architecture, build, marketing — so your time goes on what only you can provide: domain direction, customer access, and key decisions. We structure our weekly rhythm around your schedule. Most of our founders are active C-suite or senior leaders, and we've built the sprint cadence to work alongside a full-time role. You transition your time commitment as the company earns it — not before.

All code lives in your GitHub organisation from day one — if anything happens to B+D mid-sprint, you own everything that's been built and can continue with any team. The shareholders' agreement also specifies step-in provisions so a replacement partner can be appointed without disrupting your build. Business continuity is written into the terms, not left to good faith.

No — and we don't expect it. Most founders start part-time and transition as the company gets real traction. What we do need is enough committed time for key decisions: product feedback sessions, stakeholder calls, market conversations. The team handles execution. You provide domain expertise and buyer access. We'll agree a realistic time commitment at the discovery call.

Yes — pro-rata, like any shareholder. If you raise a seed round at a fair valuation, all shareholders dilute equally. We won't exercise any anti-dilution rights that would distort your cap table. In fact, having B+D on your cap table as domain experts and delivery partners is often a positive signal to investors.

The bar to entry

We say no to most. That's the point.

We invest our team's time and take equity — so we only partner with founders we believe can build something real. The bar is high by design, and it protects everyone who clears it.

Proven demand — non-negotiable

Pre-buyer interest, signed intent, or deep primary research that shows the market is real. No validation, no application.

C-suite or senior domain expert

CEO, MD, Director, or 10+ years of hard-won seniority in the sector you're building for. You know the buyers, the problems, and the gaps that others miss.

Capital ready

The conviction to put your own money in — skin in the game, and the runway that keeps the company yours.

No need to quit — yet

Start alongside your current role. Transition when the company earns it. We don't ask for a leap of faith before there's something to leap to.

Gate 1 · Non-negotiable

Buyers before builders.

Markets fail silently. The founders who succeed aren't always the smartest — they're the ones who found a real buyer before they built anything. We've seen brilliant products fail because the builder confused conviction with evidence.

What counts: a signed letter of intent, 10 documented conversations with buyers who named a budget, or primary research so specific it identifies companies and decision-makers. Concept-stage ideas, no matter how compelling, don't clear the bar.

✓ Signed LOI · Buyer conversations with budget · Named pipeline

Gate 2 · Seniority requirement

Domain authority is the one thing we can't build for you.

Your network, your credibility, your ability to open doors — that's what turns a well-built product into a business. We've seen technically perfect products fail because the founder couldn't get in the room. We've seen average products succeed because the founder already owned it.

We look for CEO, MD, Director, or equivalent — with 10+ years building real expertise in the sector you're targeting. Not adjacent. Not general. In it.

✓ C-suite · MD · Director · 10+ years sector depth

Gate 3 · Skin in the game

Your capital stays in your company — not ours.

Your investment goes into your company's bank account as working capital. It funds the sprint and signals conviction — to us, to future investors, and to your own decision-making. We don't take upfront fees.

For UK taxpayers, SEIS gives 50% income tax relief on up to £50k invested. A £35k commitment may cost you £17,500 effective. We structure every company for SEIS eligibility from day one — speak to your accountant.

✓ £30k–£50k+ into your company · SEIS-eligible structure · No fee to us

Gate 4 · Parallel model

Build it while you're still employed. Transition when it earns it.

The biggest personal risk in early-stage startups is running out of runway — financially and emotionally — before the product has a chance to prove itself. We designed the model so you don't have to bet your livelihood on month one.

The sprint runs 6 months. Most founders spend the first 3 building, the next 3 closing initial customers — while still in their role. You transition when the numbers justify it, not before.

✓ Keep your role · Transition on revenue · No leap of faith before proof

From application to sprint

A clear path. No drift.

01 · Week 1

Apply

A short application — your idea, your validation, your commitment. We read every one.

02 · Week 1–2

Discovery call

A 30-minute conversation. We pressure-test the market, the buyers, and the fit.

03 · Week 2

Terms & set-up

Shareholders' agreement, equity confirmed via the ladder, company incorporated.

04 · From day 28

Sprint starts

Team assembled, scope locked, first demo within two weeks. The build begins.

Applications open

Some people retire with the idea still in them. Don't be one of them.

If your idea is validated and you're ready to back it, bring it. We'll bring the team. A small cohort, by application only.

Apply as a Founder →

Reviewed within a week · Pre-buyer interest required · You keep the majority