Better with two

I build the systems and keep them running, but I’m looking for someone else on the business side: be the people-person and scale what I do here into other regions that need it.

The picture

Fitting one of my systems to a Praxis or workshop is simple pattern replication, and keeping thirty of them running is something one trained builder can do with proper tooling. What used to take a Systemhaus ten people can now be done with two.

Clients anywhere sign with us. Where a region needs hands on the ground, that’s a pair on contract: a builder I’ve trained, looking after the installations near them, and a networking partner you’ve found, looking after the clients. Basically a Systemhaus with field technicians. That pool of people is what I’d call a modern guild, and perhaps worth an eG form in the future.

Where I am in it

The core: the audit, the codebase, the AI methods, the updates, and training builders. Our own clients in this region, and I’ll travel if I need to see something with my own eyes or immerse myself in a problem. That’s my ceiling, I build and can’t be everywhere.

Where you are in it

The business and legal side. First here: the clients, the onboarding, the early feedback loops. Then outward: which region is next, who its two people are, how it’s sold there. I know the direction and how systems can scale; how to scale people and clients is your part.

How the money works

One invoice per client: a monthly service fee, and model usage as a separate metered line at cost plus a margin, so nobody is paying for someone else’s tokens. Extraordinary or unusual builds could be billed as well. Out of the service fee the regional pair gets a fixed share per installation; the rest funds the two of us and the core. The number of clients it takes to pay everyone is small and knowable.

What’s on offer

A share of the venture, vested over time. How your start is funded depends on who you are: Werkstudent hours, EXIST if a university is still within reach, or the first clients here. That’s the first thing we’d work out together.

Who

Someone with energy and a creative view, who is comfortable talking with a Handwerksmeister and a Praxisinhaberin in the same afternoon, while doing AI tests with me in between appointments.

Write to me

Tell me about yourself, and which Mittelstand business near you you’d walk into first, and what you’d say at the door. contact.jfortner (at) proton.me