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Stop chasing clients.
Advise the founders you fit.

Founder-led teams bring their hardest problems to Dirigent, from hiring and fundraising to product, go-to-market, and customer success. When one needs human judgment in your specialty, we bring it to you with the brief, the bar, and the fee agreed before you start.Less outreach. More of the work you’re best at.

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Senior backend hire

Seed fintech, Berlin

Fee
€2,400
Timebox
2 weeks

A new brief lands every few seconds. Take the one you fit, or pick a discipline below.

WHY ADVISORS JOIN

Less time finding work,
more time doing it.

01

A steady flow of work, without the outreach.

Founders bring their problems to Dirigent, from open roles to launch posts to their next raise. The ones that need your expertise land with you, so your week isn’t spent on cold emails and pitch calls.

02

Only the work you fit.

Requests are matched to your functions, seniority, and markets. You see the brief, the bar, and the fee before you accept, and pass on anything that isn’t a clear fit.

03

The context is already written.

Every request comes with a written brief: for a recruiter, a calibrated role brief; for a designer, the goal and the constraints; for an angel, the round and the deck. No discovery call to reverse-engineer the bar.

FROM APPLICATION TO FIRST REQUEST

How partnering works.

  1. [01]

    Apply in two minutes.

    Tell us your discipline and where you do your best work: functions, stages, markets. Joining the network is free and takes no commitment.

    No subscription. No exclusivity.
  2. [02]

    The work comes to you.

    When a founder needs human expertise in your area, we send the request to you on WhatsApp, email, or Slack, with the brief attached. No pitching to win it.

    Relevant work, or none at all.
  3. [03]

    Pick the ones you fit.

    Deliverable, timebox, and fee are on the table up front. Take the requests you’d do your best work on; decline the rest without penalty.

    Your calendar stays yours.
  4. [04]

    Deliver, get paid, build a record.

    Hand back your work in the same thread you were briefed in. Outcomes are logged, so strong judgment earns you the next request.

    Evidence, not self-promotion.

JOIN THE NETWORK

Good judgment belongs here.

We’re building a small network of recruiters, writers, designers, angels, and operators we’d hire ourselves. Tell us your discipline and we’ll bring you the work that matches it.

  • Free to join, no subscription
  • Work in your specialty, brought to you
  • Keep your clients and your brand

We read every application ourselves. Expect a real reply.

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WHAT ADVISORS ASK US

Fair questions.

01

How do I get paid?

Per piece of work, at the fee you agree before you accept it. We take a platform margin on that fee, stated up front, never deducted afterwards.

02

How much work should I expect?

We’re in pilot, so honestly: not a full desk yet. Volume depends on how closely your focus matches what founders bring us.

03

Will an AI be making the decisions?

No. We coordinate the work and prepare the context; people decide. Your judgment is the reason the request gets routed to you in the first place.

04

Do I have to learn a new tool?

No. The brief is a link you open when you want the detail, and there is no dashboard you are expected to keep checking.

05

As a recruiter, what happens to candidates I bring in?

They enter the same role brief and audit trail as every other candidate, under EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant handling. You keep visibility of the candidates you introduced.