Founder in Residence (Venture Studio)

A co-founding role with Badge Labs — the venture studio that builds your idea into a company.You have the idea. You just don't have the team.You've spent years inside an industry. You know exactly what's broken — you probably have a name for the thing that would fix it. You've thought about building it. Maybe you've even sketched it out.What stopped you is what stops every domain expert: no engineering team, no technical co-founder, no way to get from idea to something real without quitting your job and burning 18 months.We close that gap.What This IsBadge Labs is a venture studio. We're the technical co-founding team. You bring the idea, the industry expertise, and the network. We build the company with you — product, brand, go-to-market, the whole thing.You own the business. We own the build. Both sides have skin in the game.This is not a dev shop. It's not an agency. It's a co-founding partnership — a venture studio model where we build the company with you, not for you.You Might BeA senior operator — VP, GM, president, MD. You've watched a gap go unfilled for years. A consultant — recommended the same fix 50 times. Tired of nobody building it. An investor — PE, VC, family office. You see the thesis; now you want to operate. An exited founder — ready for the next one, but not the tech grind from scratch. A franchise or services-firm operator — running on spreadsheets, knowing there's a product play. An industry analyst or podcaster — audience, thesis, and capital. No product. What You BringTen-plus years deep in an industry — you know the buyers because you are (or were) one. From there, here's the honest bar: most operators we take on bring two of these five. Not all five — two. Lead with the idea and the fire to own it, and you're already most of the way there.A validated idea — a sharp read on what's broken and a fix you've floated past the people who'd actually pay for it. The drive to own it — the itch to run your own company, not land the next job — even if the idea is still taking shape. A strong network — first customers or partners you can turn on. Established credibility — people in your space already know your name. Some capital — enough to help get the build and first customers funded. Two of the five is the door. Bring the idea and the drive, and the rest are conversations, not requirements.Where we see gaps right nowLegal — practice management, document automation, valuation, compliance Healthcare practice — dental, specialty, vet, physical therapy Property / real estate — brokerage ops, property management, HOA, title Trades — HVAC, electrical, plumbing, roofing. The $50B+ contractor market runs on clipboards. Financial services — RIA ops, wealth, insurance, lending Field service & logistics — fleet, dispatch, supply chain Hospitality — multi-unit, franchise, food & beverage ops SaaS - reversing business modelsDon't see your industry? If you see the gap, so do we.What The Model Looks LikeYour idea is the seed — but step one isn't building, it's our 360° Idea Validation Report. Before a line of code, we run the concept through a full-circle validation — market sizing, competitive teardowns, customer research — that analyzes and rates the opportunity. If it scores, we sharpen it until it's more attractive than anything already out there. If it doesn't, we find the miss — the micro-pivot in the product, the audience, or the approach that turns it into something worth building. Either way, you get an honest, rated read before we build. Then we ship it in weeks, not the 18 months a traditional team would need.In six weeks with a practicing attorney, we shipped a full SaaS company from empty repo to live. Product, brand, six languages, investor deck, financial model. Real users. Real payments.He made us co-founder.We're looking for the next two or three operators who fit it.No idea yet? You're still exactly who we're looking for.Plenty of great operators come to us without a specific idea — just conviction, a network, and the drive to own something. For them, step one flips: instead of validating an idea, we run a Founder-Fit analysis on you. We map your strengths, your blind spots, and your unfair advantages, then work with you to shape a company you can genuinely win at — and, just as important, one you'll be passionate about. We won't hand you a business you don't care about; the conviction to push through the hard parts only comes from building something that's truly yours.How It WorksApply — Short form. Tell us the industry, the gap, and the idea (if you have one). 30-minute call — Real conversation, not a screen. Step one — the validation — Have an idea? Our 360° Idea Validation Report rates the opportunity, or finds the micro-pivot in product, audience, or approach that makes it win. No idea yet? Our Founder-Fit analysis maps your strengths and shapes a company you can win at and be passionate about. Either way, an honest read before we scope. Scope — We scope the company together: product, go-to-market, capital structure. Build — We ship. You launch. Co-founding from day one. What if it doesn't work?If the market doesn't respond, you keep the IP and everything we built; our equity unwinds cleanly. No lockup, no friction — you're never trapped in something that isn't working.To ApplyThe full picture — how the economics work, the terms, the FAQ, and where to apply — is at justbadge.com/founding-ceo.Don't Send a Resume. Just Tell Us Three ThingsThe industry you know cold The broken thing in it — and your idea for the fix, if you have one (or your conviction, if you don't) Why a studio partnership beats starting alone for you Skills: hr operations,ceo succession,corporate advisory,executive,entrepreneur,operations,hr administration,investor,talent acquisition,hr start-up,hr technology implementation,ceo,advisor,chief revenue officer,consultant