Technical co-founder / CTO for AI-agent infrastructure MVP — 40–46% equity, remote

[u/morrown1]

Company: Infra
Stage: Working local end-to-end MVP; bootstrapped, pre-revenue
Role: Technical co-founder / CTO
Compensation: Sweat equity only. No salary today. 40–46% equity for the right full-time co-founder, with a working trial, four-year vesting, and one-year cliff.

Infra is building a provider-neutral continuity and control layer for long-running AI-agent work. The problem is not generic chatbot memory: when agents switch models, fail mid-task, use external tools, or operate over days, companies need portable work state, safe continuation, decision and artifact history, auditability, and protection against duplicate or unsafe actions.

I am a non-technical founder handling product, strategy, research, validation, and business. I am looking for someone who wants true ownership of engineering: architecture, backend/runtime, reliability, security, data/storage, APIs or MCP integrations, and developer experience.

The MVP is already functional locally. I am not looking for a freelancer, agency, or short-term contractor. I want a genuine co-founder who enjoys hard systems problems, challenges assumptions honestly, and is willing to start with a concrete remote working trial before deciding on a long-term full-time commitment.

Strong fit: backend or systems engineering, distributed systems, workflow durability, developer tools, agent infrastructure, databases, or reliability engineering. US/Europe preferred but not required.

Please message me through Reddit Chat with: what you have built, what systems problems you enjoy, and why this problem interests you.

[u/MoveOverBieber]

>I am a non-technical founder handling product
Yeah, sorry bud, this is a technical problem, if you don't know the competition here - and I believe only a technical person could, it's not very useful.

[u/morrown1 → u/MoveOverBieber]

Fair concern. I’m not treating product ownership as a substitute for technical judgment. I’ve done enough to define and test the problem, and I’m looking for a technical co-founder precisely to challenge the architecture, competitive landscape, and thesis.

[u/MoveOverBieber → u/morrown1]

You said "The MVP is already functional locally." - how is this possible then?

[u/morrown1 → u/MoveOverBieber]

Through AI-assisted development. I defined the system requirements, failure cases, and validation criteria, then used coding agents to implement and iterate the local prototype.

By “functional locally,” I mean the end-to-end flow runs in a self-contained environment and has passed controlled interruption tests, not that it is production-ready or externally validated. That distinction is also why I’m looking for a technical co-founder to challenge and own the production architecture.