Referral partner

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The terms

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The business

I take a founder from a prototype, or an idea, to production software their first ten customers can use — built in their own accounts, one version at a time.

The product is the version: one week, €4,990, something a customer can log into. Version one works for one customer. Version two works for many: registration, login, and every customer's data walled off from every other customer's. Version three scales with infrastructure spend instead of a rewrite. After that, features, each the same unit. Each version adds to the last, because the code is engineered, not vibe-coded, so the second builds on the first instead of replacing it. The prompting tools produce a prototype that looks finished and fails open the first time a real user signs up; freelancers run the same prompt for €500 and deliver the same thing; software houses run months of sprints before there is anything to show. What a software house charges for six weeks, we charge for one, and the founder never commits to more than a week at a time.

The buyer is a founder who knows a market deeply — an ex-consultant, an operator, a scientist — backed by private money, their own, a family office's, an angel's or a partner's, before a priced round is public. They usually have a prototype that works in a demo and nowhere else, no engineer, and a raise ahead of them that will turn on the question “who is already paying you?”. Six clients in the last year, two and a half to ten months each — roughly €50,000 to €200,000 a client — in the UK, Germany and Israel. Profitable from the first weeks. No outside money, and none needed.

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Where we are

Proven: the builds land, founders who arrive warm close on one call, and they stay. One bought forty weeks, a week at a time, and never stopped.

Not built: any way of finding founders before their round is public. Every client so far came through one agency's introductions, already looking for exactly this. The day a round is announced, every agency on the planet emails the founder; the people I'd like to hear from are the ones the founder trusts in the months before that. That is what this page is for, and I'm looking for five to ten of them, not five hundred.

The building is done by a fleet of AI agents under an architect. Today that's me. I hold up to three builds a week; with versions spaced, that's around six live clients. When a fourth concurrent build is close, a delivery manager is hired ahead of it, and my commitment is to hire rather than queue the founders you send.

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Who to send

• A founder who knows their market deeply, building a product in it.
• Money committed or their own — family office, angel, partner, savings — and the round not yet public.
• A prototype that looks finished, or nothing yet, and no engineer.
• A first paying customer wanted this quarter, and a raise after.
• Non-technical, and content to stay that way for now.

Not a fit: someone who wants a demo for a pitch and nothing more; a company with an in-house engineering team; a founder who wants a fixed eighteen-month specification. That is an agency job, and I'll say so.

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What happens after an intro

I reply within a day and hold a twenty-minute scoping call within the week. Its posture is to disqualify: “don't build this” is a legitimate outcome, and some calls end that way. Within a day of the call the founder has a written definition of done for version one, and the price; within a week of their approval, a working version on their domain and a walkthrough. After the call, and again when the version ships, you get three lines from me: what they needed, what I proposed, what happened next. I never contact your clients without an introduction, and I never pass your contacts on.

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Why it's worth your attention

Your founder reaches traction before the raise; investors now ask who is paying, and a product with customers in it is a different conversation from a demo. Their capital survives: thousands a week, not a two-year agency burn or a rebuild after the prototype fails in front of the first customer. You have an answer — “talk to Version a Week: a version a week, €4,990, deployed on your domain, yours” — instead of a shrug or a list of freelancers nobody has vetted. And it is reversible: if the first version doesn't convince them, they've lost a week and a small cheque, not a year, so your recommendation carries no tail risk.

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The share

Optional, and I'd rather you took the reciprocity if your profession has views on referral fees; UK solicitors and accountants have to disclose them, and many decline. If you take it: ten percent of every payment on the founder's first two versions, invoiced through Deal Baker Ltd, England and Wales, within a week of the founder's payment clearing. For scale: two versions is €9,980, and your share is €998. If you'd rather it ran for the life of the client, say so and we agree it before the first intro. Nothing is paid before a founder pays, and nothing is paid for introductions that don't buy.

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The intro

Fill in the three brackets and send. I take it from there.

Subject: Intro, [Founder] and Mykola

[Founder], meet Mykola from Version a Week. He builds production versions for founders at exactly your stage: one a week, €4,990 each, deployed on your domain and owned by you. He's done this for six founders in the last year.

Mykola, [Founder] is building [what, for whom]. [Money situation, one line.] The next step is a product a first customer can use.

Over to you both.

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How to start

Write to [email protected]. Tell me:

• The founders you see, and roughly how many a year — the kind of people, not names.
• One founder, described not named, who is between money-in and product-out. What they have, what's missing.
• What's wrong with the buyer described above.

If it's a fit, we talk for twenty minutes, and you get the fit filter and a free audit for any founder you like before deciding anything. If you'd sooner ask me something first, do that instead.

Write to [email protected]