Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder (CTO)

Applied AI Builder OpportunityFutureSight is seeking an applied AI builder to co-found and lead the technical direction of a new B2B AI venture from the ground up. This is a co-founder partnership with founder-level equity and founder-level authority, not a salaried executive role.We are not looking for someone who manages engineers from a distance or adds AI language to a traditional CTO resume. We are looking for someone who can take a vague problem, frame it clearly, design the right system, and turn it into something customers actually use and trust.

If you've gone from ambiguity to working product before — and you want to do it again with the backing of an experienced venture building team — this is the opportunity.This is a full-time, exclusive commitment to building and owning a single B2B AI venture from the ground up.You'll co-create with a proven venture building team, including:John Carbrey – 4x founder, bootstrapped to $100M ARRJoshua Auslander – Seasoned CFO and strategic advisor with $200M aggregate exitsAlan Smith – Globally recognized early stage validation expert, 24 products launched, an exit, 5M+ books soldPrathna Ramesh – Early-stage investor and capital strategy advisorThe partnership includes:Founder-level equity with meaningful ownership from inception, aligned across funding roundsFounder-level authority, including co-decision rights on product, technology, hiring, fundraising, and strategyPre-seed capital committed by FutureSight for early hires and MVP development, with potential for follow-on fundingA proven process and playbook for taking ventures from 0 to 1, informed by our team's prior experience and mistakesVenture building and scaling resources, including embedded design, engineering, growth, and fundraising support from day oneInvestor and advisor network across B2B AI and early-stage capital marketsA true co-creation model in which you operate as CTO with FutureSight's cross-functional team as your partner — building alongside you.As Co-Founder & CTO, you will set the venture's technical direction and lead its execution. This is a co-founder role, not a CTO hire.Technical Direction — Own problem framing, architecture, system design, and product judgment from day one, translating rough product intent into structure, context, and specs that both humans and AI systems can execute againstBuild — Use modern tools and frontier models to move fast without sacrificing quality or maintainability, designing agentic systems with first-principles thinking and knowing when orchestration adds genuine leverage versus when simplicity is the better callCustomer & Market — Be the primary technical voice in early customer conversations, understanding real workflows and shaping the right product rather than just shipping quicklyTraction Before Scale — Prove there is something worth scaling before thinking about scaling it, focusing on traction first and team-building secondCapital — Contribute to fundraising, from investor conversations to due diligenceTeam — Recruit and grow a technical team when the time is right, and establish the cultural foundation of the companyCo-founder profile includes:Proven track record of shipping AI products to real users under real-world constraints — not research, experiments, or prototypesDeep practical experience with frontier models, LLM-based systems, and agentic architectures, with strong system design instincts and a bias for simplicity and maintainabilityStrong translation layer skills — able to turn messy product intent into clear structure, constraints, and specs that both humans and AI systems can act onClose to the customer, comfortable in customer conversations, and able to let real workflows shape what you buildRigorous about verification — feedback loops, evaluation, and systems that can be trustedPrior experience as a technical co-founder or early engineering leader, with fundraising experience a strong plusFounder at heart — energized by ambiguity, able to go far alone, and ready to commit fullyPlease submit your resume, LinkedIn profile, and a brief note on why this venture aligns with your goals as a founder. We will move quickly for the right candidate.FutureSight is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and experiences.