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The Entrepreneur's Partner
A Workbook for the Person Partnered With a Founder — Not the Founder Themselves
Everyone talks about building companies. Nobody asks what it takes to be with someone building one.
For the partner of an entrepreneur who wants to name what that arrangement costs and what the partnership requires in return.
The Name It First Experience
The company is always in the room. The bandwidth is always pointed toward the build. The Founder-Family Agreement names what the arrangement costs, what you need, and what both of you commit to through the build. This is for the partner, not the founder. The founder has plenty of resources. The output is not a couples exercise. It is a co-signed sustainability agreement.
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Sample questions
- What has being partnered with a founder actually cost you — in time, attention, financial security, or emotional labor — that you haven't fully named?
- When the company is always in the room, what is it displacing — and what do you want back?
- What agreements would make this chapter of the build sustainable for you — not just for the company?
Research basis
Gottman (Sound Relationship House applied to high-demand partnerships) / Perel (relational identity under external pressure) / Deci and Ryan (Self-Determination Theory applied to partner autonomy)
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
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Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Partner Pair
Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.
The comparison is the conversation.
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