Your founders ship. Without hiring a team they cannot afford yet.
Founders in a cohort build fast with AI, then stall on the last twenty percent: auth that holds, payments that reconcile, a security posture an investor will accept. SUMMON gives every company in your portfolio on-demand access to vetted developers, priced per outcome.
Ravi, solo founder in a 14 company cohort, six weeks from demo day
The product demos beautifully. Sign in breaks on mobile, payments do not reconcile, and hiring an engineer takes longer than he has.
- Day 0
The cohort gets one account
All 14 companies sit under the accelerator, each with its own budget cap. Nobody negotiates a contract on their own.
- Day 8, 21:40
Ravi is blocked
He types the problem in plain language. An intake pass asks two questions and turns it into a scoped brief with acceptance criteria and a flat price.
- Day 8, 21:52
A vetted developer drops in
Live session with shared code, chat and preview. Ravi watches the fix happen and asks questions while it is being done.
- Day 8, 23:10
Done and approved
Sign in works on mobile, payments reconcile. He approves, the payout releases, and the session leaves a work record behind.
- Day 30
Diligence gets easy
When an investor asks who built what, the answer is a list of task orders and receipts instead of a shrug.
I did not need a team. I needed one person for ninety minutes.
How it works
- 1
Your portfolio gets a shared partner account
Every company in the cohort is linked to it, with per-company budgets you control.
- 2
Founders summon help when they are blocked
They describe the problem in plain language. An intake pass turns it into a scoped brief with acceptance criteria, then it is priced and routed.
- 3
A vetted developer drops into the live session
Shared code, chat and preview. Most jobs are hours, not weeks, because the scope is fixed before anyone starts.
- 4
Delivery is reviewed and recorded
The founder approves against the acceptance criteria. The task order, the summary and the verification receipt are stored against the company.
- 5
You see the cohort picture
Which companies are blocked, on what, how often, and what it cost. That is unusually good signal on technical risk across a portfolio.
What you get
- On-demand senior engineering for every company, with no headcount
- Flat published pricing, so founders can decide without a scoping call
- A security review path founders can run before a diligence process
- Portfolio-level visibility into where companies are getting stuck
- Partner rates and pooled credit across the cohort
- Every engagement is backed by signed records and audit receipts.
What we need from you
- The cohort list and a budget model, pooled or per company
- An intro session so founders know when to summon rather than grind
- A single admin contact for the account
Questions
There is no scoping call, no proposal and no minimum engagement. A founder posts a blocker, sees a flat price, and a vetted developer joins the live session.
Founders stop losing weeks to problems a senior developer solves in an afternoon, and you get an early read on technical risk.
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