We're founders. That's the point.
Nautilus builds its own companies and works hands-on with a small number of outside founders. If you want operator-grade help instead of a deck of recommendations, this is the door.
We build our own
Nautilus founds and operates its own companies. It's how we stay sharp. Everything we bring to your company has been tested in ours.
The ones in build right now are named on the home page. What they are is a sentence each; what they are actually like is a conversation, not a webpage.
We help you build
We take on a small number of outside engagements, only where we can actually help.
Strategy
Positioning, market entry, business model pressure-testing.
Go-to-market
First customers, pricing, sales motion, channel design.
Team
Key hires, org design, interviewing alongside you.
Execution
In the work with you: operating cadence, vendor decisions, the unglamorous middle of getting things shipped.
What we are not: an accelerator (no cohorts, no demo day) or an agency (we don't do deliverables and disappear).
How an engagement starts
You tell us what you're building.
The form below. We read everything and reply, usually within a week.
We go deep on one problem.
Before either side commits, we pick the thing that's actually blocking you and work on it together. You find out whether we're useful. We find out whether we can help.
We scope it, or we don't.
If it's a fit, we define the work and the outcomes up front, and the terms follow from that. We'll go through those when we talk. If it isn't a fit, we say so.
We keep the roster small on purpose.
If we take the engagement, you get partners, not a program.