A hiring platform for when you cannot pay a salary yet

The gap every job board leaves

Every hiring platform is built around a number you do not have yet. The posting form asks for a salary range; the filters sort by compensation; the candidate expects an offer letter with a figure on it. If your answer is "a share of what we build", you cannot even complete the form honestly.

So early teams end up hiring through their own network, which means they hire people who are already like them, and they hire slowly. The people who would have said yes to a founding role never hear about it, because there is nowhere for that role to be posted.

Junto is that place. A role here carries whatever you can actually offer, and the platform is built to make that offer legible instead of embarrassing.

What you can offer a role

Every role on Junto carries exactly one kind of stake, chosen when you create it:

• Equity — a percentage of the venture, in basis points. Requires a vesting schedule before the agreement can be signed.
• Revenue share — a percentage of revenue rather than ownership. Useful when there is no entity yet, or when the person wants upside without governance.
• Flat fee — a cash amount in rupees, for work with a defined scope.
• Credit — no money and no ownership, but a verified credit on their profile when the project closes. Real for people building a portfolio.

How hiring works in practice

Post the project, add a role, pick the stake, and publish. The role appears in the deck of everyone in your city whose skills match it. They apply to that specific role with a pitch.

Applications arrive in a ranked queue with each applicant's skills, city, bio and verified credits. You can open a conversation with anyone in the queue, and you can add your existing teammates to that conversation so the whole founding team interviews together rather than relaying opinions afterwards.

When you accept someone, everyone else who applied to that role gets a polite automatic decline that frees their application slot immediately — because leaving people hanging is the thing that makes candidates stop applying to early teams.

Before the project can move into building, every member signs the agreement. The equity and revenue pools must total exactly 100% or the agreement cannot be sent — so you cannot accidentally promise 115% of a company.

Hiring for a venture with a playbook

If you are starting a known kind of business — a café, a cloud kitchen, a design studio, a mobile store — you do not have to invent the org chart. Junto's venture playbooks come with the roles that business actually needs, sensible default splits, and a launch checklist.

You pick the playbook, adjust the roles and splits to fit, and post. The people applying see a structure that looks considered, which materially changes who applies.