The Founder Check
Find out if you actually align,
before you incorporate.
Nine chapters. About 45 minutes per founder, alone. Then a joint report you'll come back to as the company grows.
Free first chapter · Pay what you want for the full report · 100% money-back
How it works
Three steps. One conversation you'll never forget.
01
Each of you answers privately.
Nine chapters of scenarios, written like a thoughtful friend asked them. Your answers are encrypted and invisible to the others until you both finish.
02
We unlock the joint report.
When the last founder submits, the report generates automatically. No analyst, no scoring against a personality grid — just what each of you actually said, surfaced where it matters.
03
You run the conversations.
Each finding has a ready-made meeting agenda. The Constitution Draft becomes your working agreement. You leave with decisions, not vibes.
The nine chapters
Built from the conversations co-founders avoid.
What's in the joint report
Built around what to work on. Never red flags.
Three That Matter Most
The findings the rest of the report exists to support. Each one comes with a meeting agenda you can run this week.
The Mirror
What each of you said about yourself, side by side. Most founders learn something new about themselves here.
Money Map
Where you align on equity, salary tolerance, dilution, and exit terms — and exactly where you don't.
Vision Diff
The futures you each described, surfaced as overlap, divergence, and the parts you haven't talked about yet.
Constitution Draft
A one-page working agreement, auto-drafted from where you actually agree. Edit it. Sign it. Keep it.
Mutual Understanding Score
How well each of you predicted the other's answers. The fastest read on whether you actually know each other.
How we think about this
Self-discovery, not assessment.
Behavior over self-report.
We ask how you'd act in real situations, not how you'd describe yourself. Every founder predicts how they'll behave under pressure. Almost nobody is right.
Nothing is a red flag.
Even the lowest alignment score doesn't tell anyone to walk away. It tells you what to work on, with concrete tools — not generic advice.
Wise friend, not HR consultant.
Every question is written like a thoughtful friend asked it. If a question sounded like a corporate survey, we rewrote it.
Pricing
Pay what you want. Or don't pay at all.
Free
Chapter 1
Get a full taste of the format. Both of you answer the Origin chapter privately, and see a partial joint report.
- • Chapter 1 (Origin & Trust) — full
- • Partial joint report
- • No payment required
Full report
Pay what you want
From $39.99. Suggested $99. One-time payment per company, per report. Covers every founder on the check.
- • All nine chapters
- • Full joint report
- • Auto-drafted Constitution
- • 100% money-back, no questions
If money is the only thing in the way, write to us. We work with founders on whatever exchange makes sense, including none.
The conversation co-founders rarely have until it's too late.
Forty-five minutes per founder. A report you'll come back to for years.