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Co-founders

The hardest conversation in a company.
Walk into it prepared.

Equity that no longer feels fair, a role that grew past someone, a direction you disagree on. It stays yours, and a room can run off the record. The Empath, The Lawyer and The CEO help you find what you actually disagree on — and write how you’ll start.

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Free to start. No card.

Example. You write: “My co-founder and I split 50/50 two years ago with no vesting. I’ve been full-time since day one; he went full-time four months ago. How do I fix this before we raise without blowing us up?” She proposes a board of three — The Empath · The Lawyer · The CEO — on “Fix vesting with my co-founder — how?”, about 6–10 minutes, about 95 credits. Nothing runs until you tap.

Examples

The split, and the first two minutes.
Before the conversation.

The ask as a founder in a hard spot with a co-founder would type it, how she read it, who sat, and what came back. Examples written for this page, not recorded runs.

Re-split the equity?

Work · Board of 3

We split 50/50 two years ago. I’ve been full-time since day one; my co-founder went full-time four months ago, after his job ended. We never set up vesting. I want to fix it before we raise. How?

Chief of staff

Fairness, the law and the friendship — a board. I’d seat The Empath, The Lawyer and The CEO.

  • The EmpathPeople Advocate
  • The LawyerLegal Protector
  • The CEOChief Executive Officer

The board’s call

Keep 50/50, and put both of you on four-year vesting from the day each went full-time.

That closes the gap without either of you giving up shares today — and it’s what your first investor will ask for anyway, so it isn’t personal.

Confidence71 · Moderate

The Lawyer disagreed

“Vesting from different start dates is a re-split in disguise. He may hear it as one — name it plainly.”

First step Book two hours together, in personthis week

Example · Board of 3 · about 95 credits

What I say first

Work · One expert

Write how I open the conversation with my co-founder about vesting. I don’t want it to sound like an accusation.

Chief of staff

The Empath writes it: the first two minutes, and what to say if he gets defensive.

  • The EmpathPeople Advocate

The piece · The Empath

“I want to talk about something I should have raised two years ago, and I want us to solve it together…”

It opens with the shared goal — a clean cap table before the raise — names your own part in the delay, proposes, then stops and asks what he thinks.

Example · One expert · about 45 credits

What she handles

Prepared,
not rehearsed.

The question underneath, a memo on roles rather than people, and a page you can both read.

Asked first, gently.

When the answer turns on the relationship, the expert asks before answering. Being asked is never charged.

A memo on roles, not a verdict on people.

The board’s call, how sure it is, what would flip it — and the dissent, kept on the page.

Steps you take together.

Each room ends in one first step with a date. They wait under Open until they’re done.

Read it together.

Share the memo with your co-founder as a read-only page before you talk, so you both start from the same argument.

The experts

Both sides,
argued without taking one.

The Empath reads what’s underneath, The Lawyer reads the paper you signed, The CEO asks what the company needs from each of you. They’re AI — they prepare you for the conversation; they don’t have it for you.

Pick an expert

Hover, tap or tab throughSwipe, then tap one
  • GPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Grok

Seats are spread across model families: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and more.

Questions

Fair questions.
Straight answers.

What people ask before they bring her this kind of call.

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Is what I tell her private?

What you tell her stays on file with where it came from, yours to correct or wipe, and your life stays apart from your work. A room can run off the record, leaving nothing on file. Nothing is shared unless you share it.

Can we both use it?

Each of you can have your own account. To start from the same page, share the board’s memo as a read-only link.

Is this legal advice?

No. The Lawyer is an AI expert that flags what to ask; have a lawyer draft anything you sign.

What does it cost?

Free to start — 150 credits every month + 250 to start. Talking to her is free within a daily allowance. A consult’s card says about 45 credits and a three-seat board’s says about 95 credits; nothing runs until you tap, and you pay for what the room really used.

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For you

Founders

The founder’s week, in one message. An expert on every call in it.

Decision

Team conflict

The conflict won’t fix itself. Plan the conversation that will.

Decision

Fundraising

Raise now, or wait for better numbers? Get it argued before the first call.

Bring the conversation before you have it.
Start free, with one message.

Fix vesting with my co-founder before we raise?Who should be CEO?Write how I open the hard conversation

It waits in her box after you sign up. Nothing is sent until you press send.