Theta is a turnkey AI-native venture team. Funds and operators hire us to ship product in days and burn real ad dollars against it. The portfolio below is our own proof. Yours runs on the same machine.
Engineering used to be the wall. Now it's distribution. We ship working product in days and spend the rest of the budget where it actually matters - paid channels, real users, real unit economics. We've operated this on our own bets. We now operate it for funds and operators who'd rather rent the discipline than build it.
A founder burns $100K on a single unproven idea, team, and 12 months. Through Theta, the same $100K becomes 10-15 funded experiments: ~$1K to build, $5-10K to buy real traffic, 3 weeks to a kill decision. Same money. Different number of shots on goal.
Build is cheap. Distribution is the test. Per bet we deploy ~$1K build + $5-10K paid traffic. At 12 funded shots on goal vs 1, the question stops being "will this work" and becomes "which one do we double down on". Shots beat lottery tickets.
Agents build the product. We deploy $5-10K in paid channels. Every bet ends with a hard kill-or-double decision on day 21, backed by CAC, retention, and payback numbers. No sunk cost, no extensions, no "let's just give it another month".
These are the bets we ran on ourselves to calibrate the machine before selling it. Each one went from idea to live users through the same pipeline a client would buy. We report all of it, including the kill memos.
These are hypotheses we've already scoped: signal, build path, paid channels, kill criterion. Bring your own thesis or sponsor one of these. Either way the day-21 decision is wired before we spend a dollar.
Multi-agent pipeline with adversarial review. Sandboxed execution. No AI touches credentials, infrastructure, or deploy.
Agents iterate on code in sandboxed environments with zero access to production
Every PR goes through multi-agent adversarial review before merge
Humans own architecture decisions, infra access, and deployment keys
No AI touches production credentials, databases, or critical systems
Continuous integration with automated security scanning on every commit
We work for venture funds, solo operators, and studios with more ideas than builders. Pick the engagement that fits the bet.
You have an idea. We ship it, spend real ad dollars on it, and hand you a kill-or-double memo in three weeks. Fixed scope, bounded loss, institutional rigor.
We join your portfolio company as the cofounding AI-native build team. Monthly retainer plus small equity, like a real startup - except we've already killed more products than most teams have shipped.
Two humans plus an agent fleet. We're disciplined about throughput because we'd rather decline a slot than blow a kill timer.
Everyone gets the same agents and the same ad platforms. What most founders cannot do is kill their own baby on day 21 with the numbers in front of them. We already killed three. That's the edge.
Claude and GPT-4 wrote production code. Most ignored it. A few teams started building differently.
Agent frameworks matured. First teams shipped products at 100x speed. We shipped six. This is where we are.
Tools commoditize. Process knowledge doesn't. By the time the cohort catches up, we'll have 15+ validated kill memos and a real survivor curve.
Perspectives from operators, analysts, and the infrastructure we build on.
30-minute call. Tell us the thesis. We come back with a scope, a budget, and a day-21 kill criterion. Or we embed as your cofounding team. Either way, no pitch theater.
Or write to hello@theta-operational.org with your thesis. We reply with a scope and a kill criterion.