Most freelance platforms are built around one idea: get the work done, move on. Match a skill to a task, complete the transaction, repeat. And for a lot of work, that's fine.

But early-stage ventures are different. They don't just need someone to complete a task. They need people who care about what they're building, who show up with opinions, who stick around long enough to actually understand the context. The best early hires and collaborators aren't the most available, they're the most aligned.

We've seen this up close. soonami has been running Venturethon for years now, watching teams form, gel, fall apart, and rebuild. And the pattern is always the same. The ventures that move fastest are the ones who found the right people at the right moment.

That's what we're trying to make less random.

We already connect over 10000 builders, advisors, and founders through our ecosystem. We've watched incredible people struggle to find the right opportunities, and great ventures struggle to find contributors who actually give a damn. The infrastructure to fix that already exists. We just needed to build the marketplace layer on top of it.

So that's what we're doing.

Through Foundance, builders can now work directly with early-stage ventures coming out of the soonami ecosystem. Set your own rate. Choose the projects that interest you. Payments are handled through the soonami token system — and in simple terms, half of what you earn can be withdrawn as USDC via SNI (real money), and the other half stays within the platform for you to use on services or reinvest into ventures you believe in. No lock-ins, no gotchas. And if you want to go deeper, you can put those platform tokens directly into the startups you're working with.

It's about finding the people who want to be part of something, not just paid for something.

If that's you, we'd love to have you in. Applications are open now. https://form.typeform.com/to/rLKFuiDf

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