Shouldered AI / For San Francisco funds, accelerators, founders and law firms
San Francisco builds companies. We shoulder HQ.
Your local Shouldered lead works with funds, accelerators, founders and law firms in San Francisco. Your firm runs on Shouldered first, then every company or client can have an HQ of its own.
"My founders are drowning in admin."
Each portfolio company can have an HQ that handles invoices, hiring paperwork and investor updates.
"Our firm's own HQ is held together with tape."
Your firm runs on Shouldered first, so proposals, billing and follow ups take care of themselves.
"Our client files can't leave our system."
A customer's private data stays in their own system, and legal decisions stay with you.
"I want someone local to talk to."
Your local Shouldered lead is in San Francisco. Shouldered is a Texas company run from Austin.
Simon and seven desks of Heroes, working for San Francisco.
Gives a fund or firm one view of every company or client and flags what needs attention.
Sends invoices, chases late payers and keeps books current for review.
Prepares board packs, investor updates and client reports on a schedule.
Tracks filings, renewals and contract dates, and hands decisions to licensed counsel.
Posts jobs, schedules interviews and keeps onboarding paperwork moving.
Follows up on every lead and intake so the pipeline stays current.
Simon runs HQ: all the tech and all the brain power, and the one you talk to. Each of the seven desks is run by a Hero, and Simon directs all seven and answers for them. A person approves what matters, and legal, tax, medical and financial decisions stay with you and your licensed advisers.
Monday on Market Street. The fund's portfolio view is ready before the partner meeting, with two companies flagged. A founder in the cohort needed a job post, and it went live before lunch. A law firm down the street opened the week with every new intake answered and every invoice sent. Nobody found out at the board meeting.
An illustration, not a promised result.
Start
Start with your firm: a Small HQ at $750 a month for up to 5 seats (Founding price: $500, first 50 companies only), or a Hero at $25 a seat. Your local Shouldered lead helps set it up.
Grow
Then each portfolio company or client can have an HQ of its own from $750 a month (Founding price: $500, first 50 companies only). Buy 10, get the 11th free.
Your Hero is here to improve the human. Your HQ, led by Simon, is here to improve your business.
Two prices, and 50 Founding places.
First, what the work costs you today. A full-time office manager runs most small businesses about $4,000 to $5,000 a month with taxes and benefits, and goes home at five. Every call nobody answers is a job that goes to someone else.
Business coaching often costs $5,000 to $7,500 for one session day. HQ does the work every month, with a coach running the Shouldered Way and workshops included. Already have a coach? HQ works alongside them.
Founding 50: of 50 places left. When they are gone, this price closes.
For you
An assistant for one person: mail, chat, calendar, to-dos and contacts. It learns how you work.
- A seat a month
- $25
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $20
- A seat a month. Cancel any time
- No onboarding fee
- It stops where you stop. It does not run a business
Up to five people
5 seats and 80 hours a month. Onboarding $1,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $750
- Month to month
- $1,100
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $500
- Simon and all seven desks
- Starts the work itself
- About $25 a day, paid for the year
- The six-month guarantee
- Arrives in December. Join the founding list now
Six to twenty people
20 seats and 200 hours a month. Onboarding $2,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $1,875
- Month to month
- $2,750
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $1,250
- Everything in Small
- Room to grow without changing plan
- The six-month guarantee
Prices are per month. Only the first 50 companies (the Founding 50) get the Founding price with a two-year commitment, paid yearly by bank transfer, and keep it for as long as they renew. Pay yearly by bank transfer and take 3% off. Onboarding is $1,000 for Small and $2,000 for Medium, paid once, and free at Shouldered events. It is one 1-hour call: technical setup with our technical team first, then your business with our team. The person who sold you HQ joins your onboarding call. Paid for the year, you get a named person who checks in every month. Month to month gets standard support. Twenty-one people and up is built around you. More seats are $25 each (Founding price $20), and more hours $12.50 each; hours count only while HQ is working, like minutes on a phone plan.
Enterprise and government. For large companies and public agencies. Custom plans start at $5,000 a month. Pilots are paid. We start SOC 2 Type 1 work in 2027. Texas agencies: we are working toward TX-RAMP.
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
The onboarding fee is not refunded. The guarantee asks one thing of you: let HQ do its work. Give it the access it needs and review its work in good faith. If our records show you kept declining or blocking the work HQ set out to do, the guarantee does not apply. If we see that happening, we tell you in writing so you can fix it.
The six months start the day HQ goes live for you. The Founding 50 are included. The guarantee covers HQ only, never coach fees.
Is there someone local in San Francisco?
Yes. Your local Shouldered lead is in San Francisco, and Shouldered is a Texas company run from Austin.
How does it work for a fund or accelerator?
The firm runs on Shouldered first, then each company can have an HQ from $750 a month (Founding price: $500, first 50 companies only). Buy 10, get the 11th free.
Does it give legal or financial advice?
No. It prepares and tracks. Decisions stay with you and your licensed advisers.
When can I start?
The Hero is available now. HQ launches in December 2026, and the Founding 50 list is open now.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes, for HQ: if HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
A Christian-run company, and proud of it.
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free.
Simon is named for Simon of Cyrene, who stepped in and shouldered the cross for another. Shouldered takes no outside funding and is open to everyone. The technology comes from the OurWorld group: ten years of work, 60+ engineers, running in 20+ countries.
Pull up a chair.
Start with your Hero today, take a Founding 50 place for HQ, or just come and ask questions in the community.
Founding list
One of the first 50 places. Keep the Founding price as long as you renew.
Hold my place →Your Hero
$25 a seat (Founding price $20). Available now.
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