We build software companies in 90 days and find out whether anyone will pay for them.
Not a metaphor. Ninety days, one named buyer, four possible outcomes, and we publish all of them including the failures.
Here's the thinking behind it. Venture capital is a prediction business. It exists because finding out whether a company worked used to cost millions and take eighteen months, so somebody had to guess in advance. Everything the industry built from the decks, to the warm intros, the pattern matching; it all exists to make those guesses better.
That expense is gone. Building a sellable B2B product now takes weeks. Putting it in front of a real buyer takes another few. The whole question costs a few thousand dollars and about ninety days.
So we stopped guessing.
Cupel Studio builds companies cheaply, points them at a named buyer, and reads the result. We're hiring the person who owns the build side.
WHAT THIS ROLE IS
Everything depends on shipping a real, sellable product in 30 days, over and over, at almost no cash cost. That works only if the agencies and engineers we bring in are genuinely good.
You find them. You vet them. You hold them to the date.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Source and vet development agencies across India, with a bias toward newer teams who want the portfolio credit as much as the fee Run our paired-build model — a new agency's first project runs alongside a proven one, so quality is covered while they prove out Recruit engineers for our Assemble track: strong builders who want to found something but don't have the idea yet Own the 30-day build window across every company in a cohort Negotiate agency terms — per-company equity, milestone vesting, attribution rights Turn delivery into credentials: agencies that ship clean get verified case studies they can actually use
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Based in India with a real network in the dev agency ecosystem — you know which shops deliver and which ones pitch well You've hired or managed agency teams and can read a team in one call Comfortable holding a vendor to a deadline without wrecking the relationship Technical enough to know when a build is drifting before anyone admits it You have a view on why offshore development usually disappoints, and what actually fixes it
COMPENSATION — READ THIS PART
This is a partner-level role paid in equity and performance cash. It is not a salaried job.
Cohort equity — points in the operator pool for every cohort you deliver, a direct claim on our stake in those companies Cash — $4,000 for each company that closes a funding round, paid within 30 days Founding grant — 1-2% of Cupel Holdings, four-year vest, one-year cliff
A cohort where two of five companies raise is roughly $8,000 cash plus a six-figure equity claim on paper.
We'd rather be blunt than waste your time: early cohorts don't pay much cash. The equity is real and it compounds across every cohort you run, but it's illiquid for years. If you need salary certainty right now, this isn't your role.