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About

The marketplace, and the paperwork that makes each trade real.

Founders trade small equity for the operators who have done it before. Every trade is papered, every milestone tracked. Ownership starts flowing to the people doing the building.

What we can prove so far

Pre-launch, so here is the evidence rather than the promise.

  • 68%

    Of professionals surveyed are interested

    They want equity for the kind of senior, part-time work this platform is built around. The number is our own, from our own survey of the market we are opening in.

  • One

    Trade completed end to end

    A micro-equity trade has already been run all the way through by hand, through Ownourship. The model is not a hypothesis; the software is what makes it repeatable.

  • September 2026

    Launching in Australia and the United Kingdom

    A market opens once its paperwork is built. Canada, New Zealand and the United States are next on that list.

What we do

Three jobs, and the second one is the hard one.

A marketplace can introduce two people. Only a compliance engine can make the trade between them enforceable.

  1. We run the marketplace

    Founders publish a company and post opportunities. Experts publish what they have actually done and the terms they will work on. Investors set a thesis and filter on it. Discovery runs on structured signals rather than keywords.

  2. We generate the agreement

    When both sides agree, the equity arrangement and its milestone schedule are generated in the product and signed before work starts. Nothing moves until it is signed, so nobody is relying on a handshake.

  3. We keep the record

    Milestones, vested equity, contributions and data-room access are recorded as they happen. That record is what makes a trade hold up later, and what turns a career into something you can point at.

What is in the product

Everything the trade needs, and nothing it does not.

  • Member profiles

    Career highlights, primary discipline, industry expertise, availability and the hours you actually have. One profile, three ways to be found.

  • Company profiles

    Problem statement, why now, business model, customer segments, stage, team, incorporation details and the metrics investors ask for first.

  • Opportunities with milestones

    Milestone-based roles with equity, hours, duration and work mode stated on the card. Draft, open, matched, completed — the whole lifecycle.

  • Fit-ranked applicants

    Applications arrive with a cover note and rank against the structured signals you set, so review is triage rather than a slush pile.

  • Data rooms

    Folder-level access control, groups, per-node grants, versioned files and a full audit trail of who opened what and when.

  • Earned Conviction

    A read-only record on every company profile: the operators who took equity to work on it, the milestones verified, and when each metric was last updated. Founders cannot edit it, which is exactly why it is worth reading.

  • Direct messaging

    Conversations with context attached to the opportunity or company they came from, with attachments and read state.

  • Verified identity

    Mobile verification and email confirmation on every account, so the requests in your queue come from people who are real.

  • Multi-currency, cross-border

    Metrics, check sizes and raise targets in the reporting currency that fits, with country-aware discovery.

Launching in Australia and the United Kingdom, September 2026. New markets open as each jurisdiction’s paperwork is built.

Where we stop

Infrastructure, not advice.

Being clear about what we are not is the only thing that makes the rest of it trustworthy.

  • We do not give advice

    GetSweaty is infrastructure. We do not tell you whether an engagement is worth taking, whether the equity is fairly priced, or whether a company is a sound investment. Take your own legal, tax and financial advice.

  • We do not vouch for companies

    Members publish their own information. Verification confirms specific things — that an email address and a mobile number belong to an account holder — not that a company will succeed.

  • We do not hold your equity

    The agreement is between the company and the contributor. We generate it, record it, and keep both sides on the same signed document. The cap table stays the company's own.

Why we bother

From a cash economy to an ownership economy.

Cash rents talent by the hour. Ownership aligns it for the whole journey. When effort earns equity, the people building the company are the people who win when it works.

That is the shift we are building for, and it only becomes real one papered trade at a time.

Effort in, equity out

We open in Australia and the United Kingdom in September 2026. Join the list and we will write the day your market opens.

Talk to us

Free for founders and experts. Nothing moves until the agreement is signed.

Opening September 2026

GetSweaty launches in Australia and the United Kingdom first.

Tell us where you are and we will let you know the day your market opens.

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