Get Aligned Before You Split Equity, Roles, and Responsibility
Start with a free founder profile, invite your cofounder, and turn the conversations about work, decisions, risk, communication, and conflict into a clear path forward.
From Gut Feeling to a Structured Cofounder Conversation
Turn early chemistry into concrete topics to review before you commit.
Create your founder profile
Answer 62 questions designed for founders about how you lead, decide, communicate, handle risk, and work under pressure.
Invite your cofounder
Compare a real partnership only when both founders choose to participate and both profiles are ready.
Surface the tensions
Use the compatibility signal and a short trial collaboration to decide which conversations cannot stay implicit.
Document the decision
Document roles, decision rights, equity, and vesting in a founder charter and a lawyer-ready pre-agreement.
Turn founder differences into explicit decisions
Use the assessment as a starting point, then document what you will do together.
Compatibility signals
A 0-100 starting signal for one specific cofounder relationship, not a pass-fail verdict
8 Dimension Breakdown
Leadership, Risk, Work Approach, Communication, Decision Making, Work Intensity, Values, Strategic Orientation
Tension Areas & Conversation Prompts
Specific places where you may need explicit working agreements
Consent-Aware Comparison Flow
Invite your cofounder and compare results when both profiles are ready to make a decision
Alignment Session
Cofounder compatibility brief
A decision-oriented view of where this partnership aligns, complements, and needs explicit conversation.
Compatibility signal
Promising alignment signal
Next decision
Validate role ownership before committing.
Dimension analysis
Decision points to discuss first
Start with the 2 dimensions most likely to affect how you and Alex Rivera make decisions under pressure.
What is the biggest bet you would each be willing to make on this company, and where is your hard limit?
Risk Tolerance
How do you each prefer to give and receive hard feedback when something is not working?
Communication Style
Alignment Session
Turn the signal into founder documents
Founder charter
roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and conflict rules
Equity + vesting recommendation
argued split, factors, and departure scenarios
Pre-agreement export
DOCX draft to review with a qualified lawyer
Decision resources
Make a clearer cofounder decision
Assess compatibility, discuss the hard questions, and document the decisions that should be explicit before you build together.
Take the cofounder compatibility test
Surface likely alignment and tension areas across eight founder-specific dimensions.
Explore resourceUnderstandHow cofounder compatibility works
See how the assessment turns founder differences into structured conversations.
Explore resourceDiscussQuestions to ask a potential cofounder
Prepare the conversations about roles, equity, risk, conflict, and commitment.
Explore resourceDecideRead the compatibility guide
Use a practical framework to evaluate whether a partnership is ready to move forward.
Explore resourceKnow what to decide before you split equity
Create your free founder profile, invite your cofounder, and turn the hard topics into explicit roles, decision rights, and next steps.
Start your free founder profile
Then invite a specific cofounder when you are deciding whether to build together
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Free founder profile • 15 minutes • No credit card for the assessment