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A small pendant captures your meetings and turns them into coaching on how you actually lead, not how you think you lead. Paying users are live, feedback comes in daily, and a founding engineer joins us on 1 December.\nWhat we need now is the person who runs the company. Not a manager who keeps things on track, but an operator who takes Alaura from a product people love to a company that grows.\nThis is a co-founder seat. You run Alaura day to day, you own what happens next, and you get real ownership in return.\nHow we got here\nThree of us (Marleen, Michael and Sharon) kept circling the same problem: as a founder, you spend most of your time explaining your business to advisors and coaches. By the time someone has the full picture, the moment you needed the advice is long gone.\nSo we started experimenting. Recording everything, analysing how decisions actually get made, and turning behaviour into something you can learn from. Then House of Founders happened: eight Dutch top founders, one villa in Cape Town, five days, AI as the ninth co-founder. Alaura was one of the companies built that week, and 1,200 entrepreneurs saw it at the launch event in Rotterdam.\nSince then we've built the product, put it in the hands of paying users and lined up the funding to grow. The three of us stay closely involved as founders and investors, but not day to day. That's the seat we're filling.\nWhat Alaura actually does\nCaptures the meetings you lead with a small pendant, privately and encrypted\n\nMeasures every conversation on 37 signals, rolled up into one daily Edge Score\n\nCoaches you with an evening reflection, a morning tip, an advisor you can chat with and a weekly report, against your own baseline\n\nStays yours. Your conversations are never shared, not with your team and not with your board\n\nTwo ways to buy it: Alaura for the individual leader (€149 per month or €1,490 per year, pendant included), and Alaura for Teams for leadership teams, with team insights, meeting dynamics and a quarterly review with a coach.\nRequirements\nWhat we're looking for\nYou'll run Alaura as its operating co-founder, working side by side with our founding engineer. Concretely, you'll own things like:\nSales and growth. Sell Alaura to founders and CEOs yourself, land the first Alaura for Teams customers, and build the pipeline from there\n\nGo-to-market. Positioning, pricing, campaigns, events and partnerships, tested fast and measured honestly\n\nCustomers. Onboarding, retention and the daily feedback loop from users into the product\n\nProduct direction. Decide with the engineer what gets built next, based on what customers actually do and pay for\n\nOperations and finance. Budget, runway, cash, suppliers and the pendant supply chain, so the company runs without the founders in the room\n\nTeam and funding. Make the next hires and lead the next investment round together with the founders\n\nThe plan is ambitious and concrete: grow monthly recurring revenue month over month and make Alaura profitable in 2027. You own that plan.\nOur stack (high level)\nYou don't need to match this exactly, the specific versions and providers will keep moving. This is the shape of what's already running for real users.\nAnalysis pipeline: event-driven, runs in daily windows. Each conversation goes through an LLM (currently Gemini) that extracts dozens of leadership and business signals as structured JSON. Parallel inference, prompt templates under version control.\n\nAI surface: streaming chat advisor with tool use and per-user memory, plus daily and weekly narratives. We mix models by job (cheap for extraction, mid-tier for chat, top-tier for the daily tip).\n\nAudio + ingestion: conversations come in from wearables and other meeting sources as audio and speaker-labeled transcripts. Primarily Dutch with English mixed in, so everything downstream handles both.\n\nBackend & data: Next.js on Vercel, Postgres, JSONB-heavy schema.\n\nMobile: Expo / React Native iOS app with OTA updates.\n\nAuth & comms: Clerk for auth, Expo Push for nudges.\n\nPrivacy posture: per-user isolation, encryption at rest, scoped tokens. The product promise is \"only for your eyes\", and that constraint shapes a lot of architectural decisions.\n\nWhere we'd love your fingerprints: real eval infra around the signal extractors, lower-latency real-time coaching loops, smarter speaker diarization, on-device or privacy-preserving inference where it makes sense, and a cleaner story for fine-tuning the leadership-specific bits.\nYou'll probably love this if you\nHave sold to founders, CEOs or leadership teams and closed the deals yourself\n\nHave built or run a startup or scale-up, as founder or in an early operating role, and know what it takes to go from first customers to a real company\n\nAre commercial and numbers-driven: you know your funnel, your churn and your runway without opening a spreadsheet\n\nAre AI-first in how you work, and use tools like Claude to move faster on everything from sales to finance\n\nTake ownership without waiting for permission, and want to be measured on results\n\nHave a network among founders and executives in the Netherlands\n\nBonus points\nExperience with coaching, leadership development or HR tech\n\nExperience with B2B SaaS subscriptions, or with a product that combines hardware and software\n\nYou speak Dutch and English fluently\n\nWhat we offer\nReal co-founder equity: up to 30% of Alaura, in three tranches of 10%, with 4-year vesting and a 1-year cliff\n\nSalary: €3,500 to €5,000 gross per month to start, stepping up to 115% and then 130% as we hit milestones together\n\nA running start: a product with paying users, a founding engineer, and funding for the next phase\n\nFounders behind you: direct access to three operator-founders who've built companies before, plus the Builders venture studio\n\nThe seat: start in February 2027, on-site in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. This isn't a remote position.\n\nSounds like you?\nSend us anything that shows how you build a business: a company you started, a market you opened up, numbers you moved. CVs are fine, but they're not what will convince us.\nIf you know someone who is this person but isn't on the market, please connect us. 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