A base you can count on, plus a share of what you help build that keeps arriving as long as it keeps working.
In finance, that's a minority holder who shifts a company he doesn't control — not by force, but by a credible plan and an aligned interest. It works for one reason: when he wins, everyone wins.
Somewhere along the way the word turned ugly. The activist became the raider — uninvited, extractive, short-term. In to squeeze, out before the bill came due.
We are the other kind — and so, if you're here, are you. We take positions in the growth of businesses we build engines for. Beyond a capped base that covers our cost, we're paid only out of the growth we create. You are paid on exactly the same logic, because the model would be a lie if the people building the engines were paid differently than the engines themselves.
We take a position in a partner's growth and build a product to compound it. The partner owns the asset. Beyond a capped base that covers our cost, we are paid a share of the growth it creates, for as long as it keeps creating it.
Your pay comes in two parts. A base, paid out of the capped base from the day you're assigned to a position, so a slow start never starves you. And a share of what you helped build, paid out of our share, which keeps arriving as long as what you built keeps working. Not a bonus. Not a discretionary pool. A structural share of a measured outcome.
Which means the thing you shipped two years ago is still paying you, if it's still working. Your work stops being a deliverable you hand over and becomes a position you hold.
That you want to be measured. Here your work is measured and your pay follows the measurement. Against a number fixed in advance, not a review written afterward. That has to be something you want, not something you tolerate — because a person who'd rather not be measured will be miserable here, and correctly so.
That you can show it. Alignment you can declare in ninety seconds on this page. Capability you cannot — nobody can, on either side of this building. So the second gate is a scoped, time-boxed work sample: a real problem, your actual hands, judged by people who build. It's the same shape as what we ask of a business owner, who proves their side by what the engine actually does against their baseline.
Fast where speed is honest. Slow exactly where care is the product.
This is what an aligned build role looks like; other roles are structured on the same principle and discussed after the work sample.
The revenue and the salary are your numbers; the base and the share rate are an example, not an offer. Your real terms are set in your agreement.
Skill is proven by the work, not the slider: the work sample is judged by a person, once. Clear it and you enter the pool — you are matched when a position needs what you build, which can be weeks or months.