Gumption finds the best operators who are experts in their trade and ready to learn how to run a tech startup, or ready for a change. We run a 12-week program to validate, architect, build, and market a real company. You own what you build. We help you make it real.
Led by partners with six exits combined. Currently active angel investors.
Experience required. Ego not accepted. Must be willing to build the boring, necessary thing.
For thirty years, ambitious builders chased software that lived on a screen. Meanwhile the people who keep the lights on, the buildings standing, and the trucks running kept aging out of the workforce, with too few skilled replacements coming up behind them.
That gap is not a talking point. It is the single biggest labor shortage most operators will build a career inside of, and almost none of the tools built for these trades were built by people who ever held the tools themselves.
Gumption exists to close that gap from the inside. We do not parachute consultants into the trades. We find operators who already understand the work, and we give them the capital and infrastructure to build a real company around what they already know is broken.
Grit is the raw material. We are the studio that knows how to turn it into a company.
We look for the best operators, people who are true experts in their trade and ready to learn how to run a tech startup, or ready for a change. Startup experience is not the requirement. Expertise is.
We test the idea against the real market before writing a line of code or a line of copy.
We design how the product and the business actually need to work, together, before we build anything.
We build the first real version of the company, fast, with you in the driver's seat the entire time.
We get it in front of real customers and start proving the business can grow on its own.
It's yours to own. Twelve weeks in, you walk away with a real company, not a case study for ours.
The partners behind Gumption have six exits between them, combined, and are active angel investors today.
Ran crews for fifteen years. Knows exactly where the industry bleeds money and time, and is tired of watching it happen.
Led logistics or maintenance operations under real constraints. Wants to build something that outlasts a deployment.
Grew up in the family shop. Sees exactly what better systems and better tools could fix, and wants the resources to fix it.
Electrician, welder, or technician who is done waiting for someone else to build the software the job actually needs.
No press releases. Just what we're actually seeing as we build.
Everyone is building the same ten AI products. Almost nobody is building for the people who keep the physical world running.
A strong resume is not the signal. Having already tried to fix the problem with duct tape is.
What broke, what held up, and why we walked away from the first idea we tried this on.
Gumption is early and building deliberately. We take on a small number of operators at a time so every one of them gets real attention, not a form letter.