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Cofounder Build Partners

We'll move your business onto AI, with you, for free.

Six weeks of hands-on consulting. One weekly session with the person who runs go to market at Cofounder. Together we move a real part of your business onto AI agents, and you keep what you build.

Apply to work with us

For one person businesses that already make money. We take a small number at a time.

What this is

Free consulting, and nothing else pretending to be free consulting.

  • Not a course, an accelerator, or a pitch competition. No cohort, no demo day, nothing to graduate from.
  • A standing weekly working session with Cooper Schoenthaler, who runs go to market at Cofounder.
  • The work is your work. We set your business functions up inside Cofounder and run them live, on your real accounts, with your real customers.
  • You keep all of it when the six weeks are over, whether or not you stay on Cofounder.
  • Why we're doing it: the fastest way to build software that runs a one person business is to sit next to someone already running one.

What you get

Six weeks. Real work on your business.

  • Six weekly sessions, 45 to 60 minutes, one on one.
  • A direct line to the team. Anything blocking your business goes straight to the on call engineer as a P0, not into a support queue.
  • $50 in Cofounder credit for every session you attend, so cost never decides what you try.
  • First look at what's coming, and real influence over what gets built next.
  • A published case study on your business, if the results are worth publishing.

What we ask

A few plain requirements. No soft filters.

  • You run the business yourself. One founder, no employees.
  • The business already makes money. It doesn't have to be much, but it has to be real.
  • You'll connect Stripe through Cofounder, so revenue is measured rather than described.
  • You'll show up to all six weekly sessions.
  • You're comfortable with us writing publicly about how it went, and with us learning from anonymized session data.

Who this is for

Built for solo operators. Not a fit for everyone yet.

A good fit

  • Coaches and consultants
  • Freelancers and agencies of one
  • Local and online service businesses
  • Creators who sell something rather than just an audience
  • Anyone running a simple business alone and already getting paid for it

Not right now

  • Software products with an existing codebase. Moving one into Cofounder is a migration we're not ready to put anyone through yet.
  • Pre-revenue ideas. We're trying to learn from businesses that already work.
  • Teams. If someone else works in the business, this isn't the right test.

If you build software products or are still pre-revenue, check back in a few months.

Being straight with you

Cofounder is early. Things will break in these sessions. That is exactly why we're sitting there when they do, and why a bug that blocks your business gets fixed the same day instead of landing in a queue.

If you want a finished product, wait a few months and we'll be glad to have you. If you'd rather be the person who decides what gets built, this is the better deal.

How it works

Three steps. Then the same hour every week.

01

Tell us about your business. The form takes about five minutes.

02

We'll do a short intro call, about twenty minutes, to make sure we can actually help before either of us commits.

03

Session one is setup. We get your business into Cofounder together, then it's the same hour every week for six weeks.

Apply

Apply to work with us.

We can take a small number of businesses at a time, because one person runs these sessions. You'll hear back within a few days either way.

We read every application ourselves, and you'll hear back within a few days either way.