For Solo Founders

Built for founders without a co-founder

No one to argue the other side with you. No one who notices when you've been circling the same decision for three weeks. Most founder support assumes you have a co-founder to lean on, and if you don't, you're mostly on your own.

The specific weight of deciding alone

With a co-founder, hard calls get argued out loud before they become decisions. Solo, they just happen inside your head, and the only check on your reasoning is more of your own reasoning. It's not that solo founders make worse decisions, it's that there's no built-in moment where someone else pressure-tests the call.

You don't necessarily need a co-founder, you need a check

Plenty of solo founders don't want a co-founder, and don't need one to build well. What's actually missing usually isn't equity-splitting partnership, it's a recurring, structured moment where someone with real context asks the hard question you didn't ask yourself.

Why going it alone makes accountability harder, not easier

No one is watching whether you actually shipped what you said you would last month. No one is in the room when you quietly deprioritize the hard thing for the easy thing. Solo founders have to manufacture their own accountability, and self-imposed accountability is the easiest kind to let slide.

What a circle gives you instead

en matches solo founders into a circle of two other founders at the same stage, meeting monthly for a structured 60-minute session. Each session gives you a dedicated turn to report on your last commitment, get direct feedback on your current priorities, and say your next step out loud to people who will ask about it again next month.

Questions people ask

I don't want a co-founder. Is en trying to replace one?

No. en isn't a co-founder matching service. It's a peer circle for accountability and calibration, something many solo founders want regardless of whether they ever bring on a partner.

What if I eventually get a co-founder?

Many members keep their circle even after bringing someone on, since a co-founder is inside your business and a circle is deliberately outside it. Different kind of perspective.

How does matching account for being solo specifically?

We review your stage, business model, and time zone, and curate a circle of founders in a similar situation, so you're not the only solo founder surrounded by funded teams of five.