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Technical co-founder as a service

At 3am, there are two of us awake.

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Our way of working

We match you with the right technical co-founder.

No managers. No teams. You will be matched with a single seasoned technical person. We don't take the project if it's not a match.

0 to 1

Products taken from an empty repository to something real users pay for.

The whole stack

UX, full stack development and devops in the same pair of hands.

CTO experience

Everyone worked in startups in a CTO role. Customer facing, battle tested in production.

Security and compliance from day one

Baked in maturity for the products

Is Co-Founder as a service for you?

Neither is better. It depends where you are right now.

Co-founder as a service

You have raised and the clock is running.

You need specific expertise, quickly.

Intense pace, when you know what you're building.

Equity co-founder

You have time to look for, assess, and settle in with a person.

You are looking for an equity-only co-founder.

Your ideas needs time to be tested.

Meet your Co-Founder

The person who writes the code is the person you talk to.

Dima Ulyanets at work

Ericeira. Tennis, travelling and discussing startups.

Dima Ulyanets

Conversational AI, healthcare, e-learning, cybersecurity

What working together looks like
I'll ask more about your customers than your feature list.
I'm good in the room: user interviews, sales calls, investor calls.
When there's a fire, you can count on me. But I'd rather build fireproof.
Startups that get me excited

I like founders who want to challenge the incumbents. Competition is the fun part.

LinkedIn WhatsApp https://dima.build

What's included

Everything from the first architecture decision to the day you don't need me.

  • Product definition
  • Architecture
  • Full engineering
  • Security and compliance
  • Infrastructure
  • Vendor selection and cost modeling
  • Investor and customer call support
  • Hiring your first engineer
  • Documented handoff

What it costs

Two weeks to work out what you’re building From $5k

It comes off the build.

Sixty days to build it From $40k

Architecture to shipped product.

Questions

What if I need a team?

We're strong believers that for 90% of startups, the technical foundation should be architected and built by a single seasoned person. We're able to do it by using modern AI technologies in a mature way.

How are you different from other web development agencies?

No teams, no managers. Everyone here has built and shipped startups from zero, and each of us reached the point of choosing work rather than accepting it. We choose early startups, and we choose things meant to last.

Do you build MVPs?

MVPs have a bad reputation because many agencies build prototypes that have to be rebuilt later. We build a strong foundation: secure, scalable, with production monitoring from day one.

What's not included?

Brand and design identity. We all have product and UX experience, so the product will be clean and considered. But visual identity is either something you bring before we start, or something applied at the end.

What happens after contract ends?

You have a stable product, live and documented, ready to hand to your team whenever you want. A clean handoff is one of our pillars. That said, most startups we take on are ones we'd like to stay with, so there's usually a conversation to have about what comes next.