A private network for founders

The people who'll buy what you're
building are other founders.

Your next customer is running a company you've never heard of. Your next vendor is two degrees away from someone you already know. The intro that closes your quarter is sitting in a phone you don't have.

Takes about six minutes either way. The phone call goes deeper.

The problem

Every founder sits on two lists
they can't reach.

List one —

The customers you can't name

You know their shape. What they care about, what they'd pay for, what their day looks like at four in the afternoon when something breaks and they need exactly what you've built. You just don't have their names. The ones you do have are drowning in cold emails that sound like yours.

List two —

The things you'd buy tomorrow

A designer who gets early-stage. A fractional finance person who's done this before. A sales hire who's actually closed at your stage. A warm intro to the company you've chased for six months. You know exactly what you need. You just don't know who to ask.

Pathfinder is where those two lists meet. Every founder who joins tells us what they're selling and what they're buying. When the lists overlap, Melon texts you. That's the product.

How it works

Three things happen.
None require another dashboard.

01

You tell Melon who you are

Fill the form on this page, or call him and have a real conversation. He asks what your company does, who you want to sell to in the next sixty days, what you'd buy if you found the right provider, and who you wish you could get introduced to. Specifics make the matching sharper, which is why most people prefer the phone. It's harder to be vague when someone's actually asking.

02

We build the network around your intent

Pathfinder isn't live yet. We're collecting intent from the founding cohort right now, and we open the doors when match density crosses our quality bar. Melon texts you the moment you're in.

03

The matches start

When Melon finds someone selling what you need, buying what you've built, or holding the intro you asked for, he texts you with context: who they are, why it's a fit, how to reach them. You take it from there. No feed to scroll. No inbox to manage. Just the right person at the right time.

Join the waitlist

Tell Melon who you're trying to sell to.

This isn't a typical waitlist. The more specific you are about who you're selling to, the better Melon matches you.

What should Melon call you?
Where we'll send matches, intros, and the occasional update. Use the one you actually check.
Melon may text or call to clarify intent or hand you a live match.

Rather just talk? Call Melon — (415) 423-2409.

The one on your incorporation docs, or the one on your website if you're still pre-incorporation.
Whichever tells us more about what you do. If you have both, give us the website.

The next five questions are the ones that matter. Take your time on these.

One sentence. If you need two, your positioning isn't tight yet, and that's fine, but pick the one that gets us closest. Skip the buzzwords. Pretend you're explaining it to a founder you just met at a dinner.
Describe the person or company, not the category. "Series A B2B SaaS founders selling to mid-market ops teams" is useful. "SMBs" is not. The more specific you are, the better Melon can match you.
Every founder has a list. Design help, a fractional CFO, a sales hire, a specific tool, a warm intro to a specific investor. Write yours. Be specific about budget if you have one in mind.
One goal. The thing that, if it happened, would change the trajectory of your company. Don't list five. Pick the one. Hiring, fundraising, a specific customer, a launch, whatever it actually is.
Names, companies, or archetypes. "The Head of Product at Ramp," "any GP at a Tier 1 fund focused on infra," "three founders who've sold to Fortune 500 procurement." Be specific. This is how Melon will know he delivered.

You're on the list.

Melon's reviewing what you sent. Watch for a text — he'll confirm you're in and start matching against the cohort.