Founding Builder-in-Residence(frontier workstations)

About Native

I can imagine worlds where AI leads to the greatest distribution of power we’ve ever seen… [and] worlds where AI concentrates power to a degree we have never seen. (Sam Altman)

Native is building infrastructure for a distributed future – one where human liberty, agency and creativity is universal and abundant.

Our first mission is distributed context.

• Context is the value bottleneck. Intelligence is falling more sharply in cost than any technology in human history, and context is its key complementary technology.
• There is a huge unbundling opportunity. Many SaaS companies are glorified ‘UI wrappers over a database’. What if that data was yours to own?
• We can radically empower humanity. When we own our context, we have a structural lever to preserve our freedom, agency and creativity.

Our first product is a frontier workstation for agent-pilled teams.

• It’s 40× more token-efficient than normal Markdown vaults
• It runs locally or in the cloud, powered entirely by context you own
• It’s agent-native for all team use cases: docs, projects, messaging and more

It’s powered by our frontier research, in collaboration with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. The Lab’s advisors include Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and Mira Murati.

Your work will be frontier, open-source and impactful

Your role is to drive a rapid 0-to-1 on how we can make context ownership the powerful, delightful and convenient default for frontier teams and developers, leveraging the open-source release of our frontier workstation.

Over the initial three month stint, you will:

• Work and dogfood at the frontier yourself as an all-in user on agents with the freedom to surf multiple subscriptions
• Help early adopters achieve massive delight e.g. by building demos or through a partial FDE embed
• Experiment with channels for finding new adopters, e.g. through Discord servers and hackathons
• Build open-source plugins, extensions and apps on top of the workstation to test its capabilities and pioneer new best practice
• Shape our frontier research and product, e.g. by synthesising and feeding back what you’re learning and seeing
• Directly challenge both of our founders with independent opinions and contrarian views where you have them

This is a three-month contract to start with, paying $3,000-$6,000 a month, depending on location and experience.

You’re an agent-pilled builder who gets good stuff done

We’d be excited to hear from you if you bring 2-3+ of the below qualities:

• Agent-pilled. You’ve gotten more done in the past two months than you did the past two years. You’ve spent time and energy figuring out your agent setup.
• Entrepreneurial. You get things off the ground. Maybe you’ve been a founder, or you’re looking to be one in future.
• Ecosystem relationships. You’re in developer and/or founder communities. You know who you’d hit up first to discuss this.
• Product taste. You have instincts and opinions about products that are good vs products that are great.
• Systems thinker. You can reason about and critically evaluate systems from first principles.
• Technical / CS grounding. You’ve got the conceptual frameworks needed for your systems thinking to be applied to technical systems.
• Proximity to a hub. Ideally, you’re based in San Francisco or Stanford. We’re open to London, and we aren’t entirely discounting other locations.

Anti-requirements

• Career span. We believe that agents radically weaken the experience-productivity correlation.
• Tech stack minutiae. We want you to think through the system and behaviour, not micromanage syntax.
• Big logos. We care about what you’ve done, what you’ve learned and the risks you’ve taken. Where you’ve been is only a means to that end.

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Your name and email, where you're based, when you could start, your CV, a link to something you've built, and one Loom of a minute or less. Two more Looms are optional. We watch every video before we get in touch.

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