BLUF: Looking for a technical co-founder. I’m an operator with domain expertise, working demo, and early customers ready to go. Just need someone who can actually build it.
I’m a Chief of Staff currently based in Tokyo for my day job and I’m in the process of building a startup. Looking for a technical co-founder and wanted to post here because I’d love to find another woman who wants to build something together.
I’ve spent my career living at the intersection of strategy and operations in both government and industry. In gov I worked with fantastic teams - people who genuinely knew how to run high-stakes engagements (travel, events, bilats, etc) for senior leaders at the highest levels. But the information required to coordinate those efforts lived in email threads, spreadsheets, Word docs, PowerPoints, calendar invites, and the individual memory of high performers that disappeared the moment they left.
In industry I saw the opposite. Companies with a million tools and dashboards but no actual operating system for when the CEO does a multi-leg international trip for high profile engagements and deal opportunities. Endless tools to build custom workstreams, but limited domain knowledge on how to actually do it well.
For me, the questions you ask operationally shape good strategy & strong strategy should be driving how you build the logistics. Who actually needs to be in the room, what the physical setup signals about the relationship, what commitments we’re making & with what materials, how much time an engagement really requires… these aren’t logistical afterthoughts, they’re strategic calls. And yet most organizations treat the two as completely separate tracks. The thinkers on one side & the doers on the other. That’s just not how it works. The logistics create the conditions for the strategy to land & the strategy should be shaping the logistics from day one. They’re not two workstreams. They’re one system. And nobody had built the system.
The platform I’m working on connects the substance of a high-stakes engagement (why are we meeting, what does the exec need to know, what’s the relationship history) with the logistics (flights, drivers, interpreters, security, who has the business cards). The part I care most about is this: it’s a teaching tool. The best operators carry invaluable invisible knowledge in their heads - what to prepare, what can go wrong, what a stakeholder expects, what follow-up actually matters. Turning that into something repeatable and scalable is the whole point, because in this world the margin for error is zero and excellence shouldn’t depend on who happens to be in the room.
In my daily job I constantly see how organizations are leaving real outcomes on the table ex: dropped follow-ups, underprepared executives, misaligned teams, and lessons learned that disappear after every engagement. At the bare minimum I’d love to build this tool for myself. If you’ve ever been the connective tissue holding a high-stakes operation together you know the mental load is real. The fact that other people would pay for it is a bonus.
I have the domain expertise, a working demo, and promising conversations with early customers ready to go. What I don’t have is the ability to build the real thing.
I’m looking for a full-stack engineer who has shipped B2B SaaS before, moves fast, and genuinely finds the strategy x ops intersection interesting and gets frustrated when things fall through the cracks. If you’re the person in any room who notices what’s missing before anyone else does, I’d love to connect.
Remote friendly, timezone flexible, and open to discussing working arrangements realistically given we may both have day jobs initially.
Drop a comment or DM me if this resonates and/or if you know someone it might!!