We started in a Paris apartment in spring 2024 because the tool we wanted did not exist. A top-1% creator paying thirty cents on every dollar to an agency that ghosted her on a Tuesday morning. A freelancer who had spent years as the top builder for AI startups, shipping the automations that quietly replaced entire teams. We argued, for forty minutes, that the same thing could run on a creator's own machine and put the margin back in her pocket. We are still arguing about it. We are also still right.
One year later there are 30,000+ creators on FanClaw, an operator led seed round, and a roadmap that is, candidly, ten years long. We don't hire employees. We hire shipped work. Two founders, a rotating bench of freelancers across nine cities, every collaborator paid per scope they ship. The best people on the bench keep choosing to come back, and a few of them are quietly becoming the core team.
The bar to work with us is not a credential. It is one blunt question we ask before every brief : is this person better than us at their craft? The 1% that companies fight over, the one people text when something is on fire. We are good. We want to work with people who make us look slow. If a scope lands and we learn something from how you shipped it, that's the yes. If we could have done it ourselves just as well, that's a soft no. We are not staffing roles. We are hiring people who are simply better than us.
Everything that follows is honest. We don't pay salaries. We pay per shipped scope, within seven days of merge. Hours are yours. Equity is real, and the cap table is open to everyone working with us.
If that sounds like the next move for you, keep scrolling. Open roles are next.
Maya R. · CEOThomas B. · CTOParis & LA · 2026