a cofounder invitation, for
Sonia

to build Sponic Gardens with us

A community-first vision for how people will live, gather, and grow — designed for the next decade, not the last one.

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Why you, specifically

You've actually lived what most people only theorize about — communities, in many forms, in many places. You know what makes them sing and what makes them sour.

that knowledge is rare, and we need it

What follows is not a job description. It's eight honest reasons we think you should consider being a founder of this thing — written for you.

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Reason one

The most interesting moment in the history of technology — be in the room where it happens.

AI is reshaping the texture of daily life in real time. Spaces, organizations, communities — all the structures we take for granted — are about to be rebuilt. Better to be one of the people shaping that than one of the people watching from the sidelines.

Decades from now, there will be a small set of people who can say I helped build the playbook for this. That door is open right now. It will not stay open forever.

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Reason two

It will push your capacities further than you think they go.

Founding a company is one of the only environments left where you are forced to grow on every axis at once — strategy, craft, emotional resilience, judgment under uncertainty. There is no ceiling, and no permission to coast.

You will be a meaningfully different person in twelve months. Most paths can't promise that.

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Reason three

The people you will meet will redraw your sense of what's possible.

Building something ambitious pulls you into rooms you couldn't otherwise enter. Founders, operators, investors, artists, scientists, builders — people whose existence quietly raises the ceiling of what you believe a single person can accomplish.

You become the average of the people you spend your weeks with. This work re-rolls that dice in your favor.

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Reason four

You will learn how to build and grow an organization — from the inside.

Hiring. Firing. Setting culture. Designing incentives. Making the calls that everyone else has to live with. Communicating a vision so well that strangers stake their careers on it.

This is a graduate education that no graduate program actually offers. The only way to learn it is to do it, and doing it as a founder means you learn it from the seat where the lessons are sharpest.

And — even if it doesn't work — it will be super valuable, and it will change your sense of what is possible.

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Reason five

Watching your ideas unfold into the world is intrinsically satisfying — especially when they start to work.

You'll point at a wall, a ritual, a member, a moment of connection between two strangers — and know that none of it would exist without a decision you made.

That feeling does not get old. Most jobs ask you to push pixels around inside someone else's vision. This is the opposite of that.

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Reason six

The economic upside is not theoretical.

Founding equity in a venture aimed at how millions of people will live and gather is asymmetric in the truest sense — bounded downside, very wide upside. The category of "AI-native, community-first spaces" is being defined right now, and a handful of teams will define it.

the concrete offer
Role Cofounder
Founders equal partners
50%
you
50%
me
The two of us split founder common stock 50/50. Equal partners in every meaningful sense.
Investment runway to prove it
$100k
from the trust
33%
common stock
The trust funds $100k for 33% of common stock, with a $50k follow-on if it's working — enough runway to focus full-time, build the first version, and prove the thesis.
Your stake honest dilution math
today
33.5%
after $100k
later
23.5%
after Series A (~30%)
fully diluted
17.6%
after pool (~25%)
Future rounds dilute everyone proportionally. Assuming a Series A that takes ~30% and a ~25% option pool for the team, your fully-diluted founder stake lands around 17–18%. The slice gets smaller; the pie should get much bigger. Worth being honest about the math up front.
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Reason seven

Whatever you do after this, you will do from a much higher floor.

"Founder of Sponic Gardens" is a door-opener for the rest of your career — for any project, any role, any city, any new idea you want to chase next. The skills compound. The network compounds. The credibility compounds.

You are not closing doors by doing this — you are opening every door you might want later.

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Reason eight

And — let's not be coy — it's going to be fun.

Long late nights solving problems no one has solved. Group dinners that turn into the next product spec. The specific, unrepeatable feeling of a small team that knows it's onto something. Inside jokes that become company lore. Travel. Strangeness. Stories.

Most adult life does not feel this alive. This will.

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How we'd split the work

Two cofounders, distinct lanes, one shared lift.

Equal equity, equal voice — and a clean division of who owns what, day to day.

Front-end ops Sonia
  • 1Recruiting — bringing the rest of the team in
  • 2Business development — partners, landlords, operators
  • 3Front-end product — the member's actual experience
  • 4Fundraisingshared
  • 5Marketing — voice, narrative, pull
Back-end ops Rahul
  • 1Tech recruiting — engineers and AI talent
  • 2Technology platform — the AI-native backbone
  • 3Physical infrastructure — the spaces themselves
  • 4Fundraising collateral — decks, models, story
  • 5Financial operations — books, runway, controls
  • 6Corporate structure — entity, equity, legal
  • 7Fundraisingshared

Recruiting and fundraising are shared — everything else is owned. Clean lanes mean fewer fights and faster decisions.

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The commitment

Four months, full-time. May through August 2026.

A clean, time-boxed window. Long enough to actually build something; short enough that you know exactly what you're signing up for. At the end of August, we reassess together — what worked, what didn't, what the next chapter looks like.

cash comp during the window
$2,500
per month · first 4 months
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scales with outside funding
Enough to cover food and housing through the runway window. Once we close outside funding, cash comp steps up — equity stays the same.

No open-ended ask. No "we'll figure it out as we go." Four focused months, one honest checkpoint, then a real conversation about what comes next.

One honest caveat: if we close outside funding during or after the window, the expected commitment will likely extend beyond four months — investors set their own expectations about runway and team continuity. We'll have that conversation openly, with the new facts in hand, before anyone is locked in.

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The ask

Invent the change you are looking for. Design the world you want to live in.

Make robots do the hard work.

You've spent years understanding what makes communities work. We are about to spend the next decade building the most ambitious answer to that question anyone has built. We would rather build it with you than without you.

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