A collaboration platform for people who want to own what they build

The problem with "collaboration software"

Search for a collaboration platform and you will find chat apps, kanban boards and shared documents. All of them are useful, and all of them assume the same thing: that the team already exists, that someone is paying everyone, and that the only remaining problem is coordination.

That assumption fails for the people who need help most. A chef with a restaurant concept and no capital does not need another Slack workspace. A developer with a product idea and no cofounder does not need a Gantt chart. What they need is the three other people who will build it with them, and a way to agree — in advance, in writing — on what each of them will own.

Junto is a collaboration platform for that stage. The unit of the product is not a workspace or a document. It is a project with roles open on it.

How collaborating on Junto actually works

You post a project: what it is, where it is, and what stage it is at. Then you open the roles you need — head chef, editor, backend engineer, marketing lead, whatever the thing requires — and put a stake on each one.

A stake is a specific number, not a vague promise. It can be a percentage of equity, a share of revenue, a flat fee, or a credit on the finished work. Whatever you choose, it is visible on the project card before anyone applies. Everyone browsing sees the same thing: the roles already filled, who filled them, what they hold, and what is still open.

People apply to a specific role, not to the project in general. You review applications, talk to the ones you like — including in a group interview if the whole team should meet them — and seat the ones you want. When the cast is set, the split becomes a signed agreement before any work starts.

• Free to post a project and free to apply.
• Equity, revenue share, fees and credits are all first-class — you are not forced to give away shares.
• The full cast sheet is public on the project page, so nobody negotiates blind.
• Agreements are signed by every member before the project moves to building.

What happens after the team forms

Collaboration platforms usually stop at the point where work begins. Junto keeps going, because for a new venture the failure modes after formation are the ones that actually kill it.

Every team gets a workspace with a shared thread, a milestone checklist, and a file vault. Teams that started from a playbook get that checklist pre-filled with the real steps for their kind of business — company registration, GST, licences, the bank account — and can hand any of those steps to the Junto concierge instead of learning the paperwork themselves.

Teams pooling money get a guarded treasury: spending above a threshold needs a proposal, a vote and a cooling-off period, and any member can freeze it. When the project closes, everyone who held a role gets a verified credit on their profile — a record of what they actually shipped, which is what the next team will judge them on.

Who it is for

Junto is built for people starting something in a specific place with specific people, not for distributed open-source coordination. The deck is city-scoped, the money layer is rupee-denominated, and the venture playbooks assume Indian company registration and GST.

In practice that means founders looking for a cofounder, operators who want to run a business but do not want to invent one, and skilled people — chefs, editors, engineers, designers, marketers — who would rather own a slice of something than invoice for hours.