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Service 03

Builder Program

We build with you for a share of the business. You apply to get in.

There is no flat fee. We build your product or business with you and get paid the way you do, through a share of sales or a share of the company, written down first.

Who this is for
  • 01A founder with a proven idea and no technical co-founder
  • 02An owner with customers waiting and no product
  • 03Someone who would rather share the upside than pay up front
What it is

The plain version

This is a partnership. You bring the idea, the customers and the drive. BuildState brings the build, the tools and the coaching. We build together, we launch together, and the deal is on paper before the first line of code. We take a handful of founders a year, chosen from the applications.

The shift

Where you are now, and where this takes you.

Today

You have the idea and the drive, but no tools and no one to build with.

Where you are going

A launched product, built with us, on terms written down before the first line of code.

How it works

Four steps, in order

01
Step 1
Apply

A short application. What you are building, who already wants it, and what you have tried.

02
Step 2
Check

Two calls and a look at the proof. We say no more often than yes, kindly.

03
Step 3
Terms

A share of sales or a share of the company, in writing, with a lawyer on both sides.

04
Step 4
Build

Weekly sprints in the Workshop, with the Council for the hard decisions, until it is live.

What it costs

Written down before any work starts

No fee up front. A share of sales or of the company, agreed per deal, with written terms before any work starts.

Why BuildState

Delivered by the founder, backed by the platform

Every service is delivered by the founder first and backed by the platform you are standing in, the coaches, the Foundry recipes and the tools. Nothing here is resold. If nobody buys a session with the founder, nobody buys one with a stranger.

Chandon, founder of BuildState
Meet your guide

Delivered by the founder, first.

I am Chandon, founder of BuildState. Ten years of building and selling for other people taught me one thing. The system behind the work matters more than any single piece of work. Every service on this page is scoped by me, in writing, and delivered by me before anyone else touches it.

Already inside BuildState

Start here while you wait

Questions founders ask

Straight answers

What are the odds?

Low on purpose. We take a handful a year so each one gets the attention it needs.

Do you take control?

No. We take a minority share, written down and reviewed by your own lawyer.

What if it does not work?

We both lose some time, and everything you built stays yours. That is the point of the deal.

Be first

Tell me the day it opens

One email when this opens, written by the founder, and nothing else. Until then, the Work With Us page lists the services you can book now and a free intake.

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