A co-founder wanted. An adventure included.
I can build
the thing.Can you make people give a shit?
I’m Valentin. I lead the build; you lead how we reach people and win customers. We choose our direction together. Because 1 + 1 should be more than 2.
Different strengths. Equal commitment.
Equal say. Equal upside.
Creative tools. Digital products. Our next good idea.
What we’re building
Take your
fucking shot.
You don’t have to
take it alone.
A club for people who take their shots, and people ready to take their first.
People at different stages, sharing what worked, what didn’t, and helping each other make the next move.
We’ll build tools and workflows that make starting easier, while taking and sharing our own shots.
Building for others.
While we build for ourselves.
You don’t need to arrive successful. A genuine attempt counts.
One thing we’re testing.
From a saved idea to a visual series.
A guided AI image workflow: choose a look, define your subjects and plan the shots before generating. It brings structure to that “where do I start?” moment.
A first test. A mini capability of the club.
The other half of the equation
You bring
the spark.
We tell each other when our “brilliant”
ideas are absolute shit.
You know how to make people care.
About a product. A story. An idea.
You write sharp hooks, create scroll-stopping content, and tell stories people want to finish.
You understand an audience, can shape an offer, and enjoy getting it out into the world. A room full of strangers? “Let’s go.”
You lead marketing and sales. I’ve spent years selling and leading sales teams, and I’ll be in it with you. I’m looking for someone to own that side, not carry it alone.
Claude, ChatGPT, Grok. Pick your weapon. You already use AI to turn ideas into things we can test.
Different strengths. Equal commitment.
An equally involved co-founder. We share the decisions, responsibility, ownership and financial upside. Not occasional help from the sidelines.
You’ve helped build other people’s businesses.
Ready to build something we actually own?
Let’s make the practical bits clear.
Remote works. We agree a serious time commitment together, then give this as much as we can.
Worth a Shot is my second focus today. I’m open to making it my full focus as we start generating revenue.
No salary at the start. We agree ownership and commercial terms together, and decide what to reinvest and what to pay ourselves.
Women in marketing, audience growth and creative business: I’d especially love to hear from you.
Some shots
I’ve taken.
Films, brands, tools and a few rabbit holes.
Different projects. Same itch to make things.
Imagined worlds. Made real on screen.unhomologated
My automotive film project, bringing familiar cars into places and stories that don’t exist. AI-made imagery becomes a world on screen. These are fictional scenes, not footage of a real event.
Explore unhomologated
GuntiGold
A Swiss herbal brand. My contribution is its branding and website: giving the products a visual identity and an online home with as much character as the herbs inside.
Visit GuntiGold
Launched. Learned. Closed.SINCE
From “fuck it, let’s try” to launch within 24 hours.
A cap-brand experiment I later chose to close. Not every shot becomes a business you keep.
Four more shots.Lindra, x402, System Schmid & our creative workflow
In development · launch-page previewLindra
A breathing app built around a small pause in your day. I’m developing the product, interface and its quieter visual world. This is the launch-page preview; the app is still in development.
x402 Register
A tool that tests paid APIs (the services other software connects to) and makes the measurements public. My work spans the automated checks, the infrastructure behind them and the interface that makes the results readable.
Explore x402 Register
System Schmid
My consulting practice for small and medium-sized businesses navigating change. I work with founders and owners on clearer direction and practical next steps.
One example: helping the founder of Alpensio clarify the brand’s values, principles and long-term direction. Meet Alpensio
Visit System Schmid
Worth a Shot · AI-made editorialFrom an idea to a series
A fictional AI-made shoot with a Toyota GR GT3, a model and a Volonaut airbike. The challenge: carry the same subjects and visual style across different scenes, angles and compositions.
An in-house experiment for the Worth a Shot creative workflow. Not a commissioned campaign.
There’s more behind the pictures.
Agents, local AI & connected systemsThe machinery behind the work
A multi-device setup connects my laptop, an always-on infrastructure machine and a local compute workstation. Different jobs, connected tools.
Local LLMs, AI agents, content scrapers and research pipelines sit alongside shared knowledge, task tracking and creative workflows. Less copying between tools. More context carrying forward.
This is my own working setup, built and iterated through use. It’s not an off-the-shelf product.
The person behind my projects.
Off the clock.
38. A ’90s kid.
Married to my dream wife.
Dad to our daughter.
I love time with my family and our dog, a proper fire, something good on the BBQ, and taking our Jeep off the beaten track .
Not everything needs a business model.
A rule I like to live by.
Everything before the “but” is horseshit.
Ambitious? Absolutely.
One year.
Our first $1M?
US$1 million in revenue.
Not a promise. An attempt.
Build something useful. Test the offers. Find real buyers. Show the numbers. Have a ridiculous amount of fun doing it.
I joined a startup at six people and left as COO at sixty. Now I want to build the next chapter with someone who brings a different kind of fire.
The bigger ambition? Something we own. Something that lasts. For my family and yours.
Stupid but true.
Yes, it belongs on a mug. Still worth acting on.
With two lines from the Holstee Manifesto, the one on my wall. Attributed in the rows.
No pitch deck needed.
Take your
fucking shot.
Show me something you helped launch or grow.
Tell me what we should build next.
And why we should do it together.