PartnershipDNA
PartnershipDNA
PartnershipDNA is 308's legal and operational framework for building with others. It settles intellectual property, confidentiality and decision rights before any work begins, so independent firms and specialists can combine their best capabilities into one venture without fear of being diluted, locked in or absorbed.
The problem
Small firms, lined up against each other.
The capability high-assurance sectors need is spread across hundreds of small companies, and procurement keeps pitting them against each other for thin slices of the same work. Firms burn margin on bids. Buyers get fragments. The capability that only exists in combination never gets built. PartnershipDNA exists to end that arrangement.
Why it exists
An idea is nothing until it's built.
The best capability is scattered across small firms that cannot individually win large contracts or fund full development. Apart, each one is a what-could-have-been. Put them together and they can build what none of them could alone. An idea can start with 308 or with you, and we treat both the same. Bring an idea and the capability to help build it, or bring a capability and build on one of ours. Either way, the contribution is recognised and the upside is shared.
How it works
Everything agreed before anything is built.
Each project runs in two phases, collaboration and conversion. In the first, you work as independent companies. Your people own what they create, held in trust for the future venture, with mutual licences only inside the project's defined field. When the project reaches an agreed trigger, a commercialisation vehicle is formed, the shared IP moves into it, and equity is issued. Nothing is improvised. IP, confidentiality and who decides are written down at the outset.
What you keep
What you keep.
Your IP
Background IP stays yours, ringfenced in writing before any work starts.
Your credit
Contribution is recognised and tied to what you actually deliver.
Clear lines
One partner stays accountable for the whole, so responsibility never scatters.
Your time
Involvement is scoped to the work, not an open-ended commitment.
“Like they say on my cape cod, a rising tide lifts all boats.” JFK
Assurance
You're not asked to take us on faith.
308 stands up and runs a high-assurance environment for each project. Development, source control, identity, secrets, runbooks. Its architecture and security design are open to inspection by every partner, on reasonable notice and without charge. Every project also includes an independent risk and compliance party whose job is to audit that environment and verify security and regulatory compliance. And nothing locks you in. On exit, you leave with what you need to keep running on your own.
Ownership
We build it, and we own it, together.
Partners don't subcontract to 308. They hold a stake in what they help create, and the upside travels with it. Equity follows risk and contribution, not status or brand. The exact shares are set per project, because no two builds carry the same risk or the same contribution, and we work them out in the room, together, as people bootstrapping something real.
Pace
Cadence over speed.
Because the barrier to entry is deliberately low, projects move at the pace each partner can actually sustain, often slower than a venture-funded equivalent. Slow is fine. Absent is not.
Who we want
Who we're looking for.
Operators, engineers, and researchers with capability that actually deploys, proven in regulated or high-consequence environments. Solo specialists and small firms both fit.
A real track record
Capability that has deployed in regulated or high-consequence environments, not slideware.
A security posture that holds
Practices that stand up to scrutiny from the first conversation.
A clean supply chain
Sourcing that is secure and transparent end to end.
The scrutiny runs both ways. We open the same details to the people we build with, because trust on a serious build cannot point in one direction.
Fit
This won't suit everyone.
The framework appeals to those who would rather club together and build something focused than chase status through venture capital. Anyone looking to dominate the cap table, lock others in, or land-grab will find it inhospitable. That is deliberate.
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