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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.

This is for:

For the partner of an entrepreneur who wants to name what that arrangement costs and what the partnership requires in return.

You'll produce:your The Founder-Family Agreement

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.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What has being partnered with a founder actually cost you — in time, attention, financial security, or emotional labor — that you haven't fully named?
  2. When the company is always in the room, what is it displacing — and what do you want back?
  3. 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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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$19.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$9.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

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.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

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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