The Opportunity

Turtle AI is the platform to manage your agents, optimize AI costs and trust every output. The companies deploying AI agents at scale today are running into the same walls, and no one owns the full solution yet. We are building that infrastructure for cost management, observability, evaluation, and security.

We’re looking for a cofounder who lives at the intersection of product and sales. Someone technical to shape the platform and commercial to drive enterprise traction from day one.

This is a ground-floor equity role. The founding operator retains majority ownership.

Why This, Why Now

Enterprises are deploying AI fast. Adoption is stalling even faster. Every organization building with AI hits the same wall, not the technology itself, but everything around it.

IT leaders, compliance teams, and CISOs keep pumping the brakes for the same reasons:

• There’s no clear bridge between domain expertise and AI development.

• Model accuracy is hard to verify, and agent drift is even harder to detect.

• Agent sprawl is creating real security exposure with no unified control layer.

• AI costs are ballooning with limited visibility into what’s driving spend.

These aren’t edge cases. They’re the reason enterprise AI adoption keeps stalling after the pilot stage.

What Turtle AI Does

Turtle AI gives enterprises a single control plane for every AI agent across their organization to manage every agent, control every cost, trust every output.

Domain Expertise Bridge

Turtle helps domain experts to drag and drop content (video, audio, text) to convert processes into AI skills, workflows and code. Whether it be SOPs or your special processes, it can be automated by our platform. We also create a knowledge graph that becomes an ever growing knowledge base for the customer.

Cost Management

AI spend is exploding, and most of it is wasted. Not all tasks need the same level of AI raesoning. Turtle AI orchestrates across models and selects the right level of intelligence for each step of the process – choosing the right model for the right level of reasoning and software code for deterministic parts of the steps. , giving teams full control over what they spend and why.

Observability

You can’t manage what you can’t see. Turtle AI provides full visibility into what every agent is doing, every decision, every output, every failure, in real time.

Evaluation

Agents break silently. Turtle AI simulates and validates agent behavior before anything touches production, continuously monitors accuracy post-deployment, and intelligently splits workflows between AI and deterministic code based on what actually works.

Security

Agents are the new attack surface. Turtle AI provides agentic access management, policy enforcement and guardrails for non-human identity, and ensures no agent operates outside its defined boundaries.

All of this is delivered through an intuitive interface that makes entire teams AI-native, no code, no AI expertise required. The first company to own this layer across mid-market and enterprise will define how AI gets adopted inside the modern organization.

The Role

As a Cofounder, you’ll be a builder who sells. And you will be a builder who builds. Someone technical to make product decisions, sharp to run an enterprise sales cycle, and hungry to do both from day one.

You’ll work closely with the gAI Ventures studio team to drive early commercial traction, build an enterprise pipeline, and shape the go-to-market motion from scratch.

What You’ll Own

• Identifying the highest-friction AI adoption pain points across IT, compliance, and operations

• Translating customer signals into product roadmap decisions alongside the product team

• Product management and technical strategy

• Pipeline generation and enterprise sales across SMBs and enterprises

• Building and executing a repeatable enterprise sales process from prospecting through close

• Defining pricing, packaging, and commercial strategy

• Building and leading the revenue team as the company scales

• Developing strategic partnerships with system integrators, cloud providers, and channel partners

Who You Are

• Ideally, experience in end-to-end product ownership (tech + commercial). Or Technical product management with revenue responsibility. Or Technical product execution with GTM exposure

• You’ve built or shipped enterprise platforms, not just sold them. You understand APIs, integrations, and system design.

• Strong understanding of enterprise procurement, security reviews, and compliance requirements

• Equally comfortable going deep on architecture with engineering teams and presenting ROI to C-suite stakeholders

• Proven track record of driving commercial traction in a founder-led or early-stage environment

• You know how to build a pipeline from scratch, not just work a warm inbound motion

• Entrepreneurial by default, you want to own outcomes, not manage processes

Nice to Have

• Experience selling AI governance, observability, or enterprise AI platforms

• Led go-to-market at an early-stage B2B AI company through first $1M–$5M ARR

• Built partnerships with system integrators or hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

What You’ll Get

• End to end technical AI and engineering support to build products/platform

• Help with design, go-to-market, fundraising, and hiring

• Capital to build and launch

• Access to experienced advisors across AI, fintech, and agentic commerce

• A chance to define one of the core infrastructure companies powering enterprise AI adoption

Learn more about our investment thesis at gai.ventures/investment-thesis.

About gAI Ventures

gAI Ventures is a venture builder focused on launching vertical AI companies in Financial Services, Enterprise Productivity, and Commerce. We partner with experienced operators and domain experts to identify high-friction workflows, validate products quickly, and build category-defining companies from scratch, and invest in them.

We provide capital and hands-on support across product, design, engineering, go-to-market, and strategy, giving founders the infrastructure they need to move with speed and clarity.

For reference, see FastTrackr.ai (an AI stack for the US RIA market) and Swik.ai (a unified AI-powered enterprise search tool that connects to all your business systems).

The Team

The team behind gAI Ventures brings deep operating, technical, product, and investment experience. We are serial entrepreneurs who’ve been through the 1-to-1 journey multiple times.

One of our cofounders previously built and sold a company to a U.S.-based, IPO-bound unicorn and has invested in over 30 startups, including multiple category leaders. Our CTO is a seasoned AI architect, former researcher, and ex-CTO of a well-funded startup. Our third partner brings a combined background in venture capital, having worked at 500 Global (VC firm) and led investments at the venture arm of a BBVA bank.

This team doesn’t invest from the sidelines, we co-build with exceptional founders.