Set Your Rate. Keep 100% of It.
Review startups blind against a published rubric, on your own schedule. You publish your price, you receive it in full, and FounderGrade adds its service fee on top rather than taking it out of your work.
You set your rate · 5-day SLA · Blind review, always
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Plain money
You Set the Price
Publish a rate for each service you offer. Founders see it before they commit, and you receive it in full.
100%
Of your listed rate reaches you
$0
Deducted by the platform
How a $400 Audit Settles
- Your listed rate
- $400
- Platform service fee, paid by the founder
- $80
- Founder pays
- $480
- You receive
- $400
Rate bands per calibration tier keep the directory comparable: Calibrated $150 to $400, Senior $300 to $800, Lead $600 to $1,500. Milestone verification is a separate rate you set. On a platform-matched blind double review each reviewer is paid their own listed rate, and any third tie-break reviewer is funded by FounderGrade.
Method
Blind Review Integrity
You never see identity
Founder names, cap tables and investor names are stripped before a file reaches you. You score the evidence in front of you.
Calibrated trust score
Your reviews are measured against outcomes and peer scoring over time. Consistent judgment raises your trust score and your allocation.
Disagreement is handled
When two reviewers diverge materially, a third expert is assigned. No single opinion decides a score.
Calibration Is Continuous, Not a One-Time Test.
Your trust score moves with every review you complete. Consistent, well-evidenced judgment raises your tier and the volume you are offered. There is no shortcut around outcomes.
Your take-home
Model What You Would Earn
Set your own rate and volume. You keep every dollar of it, the service fee sits on top and is paid by the founder.
Earnings Calculator
Verifications are modelled at 35% of your review rate, which is the default when you publish your services. You can price every service independently.
You Take Home
$3,700
per month
$44,400
per year at this pace
- Platform deducts from your rate
- 0%
- Service fee added on top
- 20%
- Founder pays in total
- $4,440
Illustrative model, not a forecast of demand. FounderGrade has not yet onboarded experts.
Panel
Who We're Looking For
We assign reviews by sector and stage fit. You choose what you accept and how much you take on.
Sector operators
Ten-plus years building or running companies in a specific vertical.
Finance professionals
VC, PE, corporate development or credit backgrounds with live diligence experience.
Technical leaders
Engineering and product leaders who can judge technical substance and defensibility.
Built Right for Experts
- Published 8-dimension rubric, shared before you review
- Founder identity stripped from every file you receive
- Third-review arbitration when reviewers diverge
- 5-day review SLA you plan your own week around
- Calibrated trust score measured against outcomes
- You set your own rate for every service you offer
- You keep 100% of your rate, nothing is deducted
- Milestone verification priced separately, also by you
Founding Experts Write the Standard They Are Judged By.
Set your own rate and keep one hundred percent of it, help write the evidence standards for your sector before the rubric is fixed, and carry a founding reviewer marker permanently.
See the Founding Cohort
For experts
Put Your Judgment on the Record.
Applications open ahead of our Q4 2026 launch. Reviews are paid from the first assignment.
Pursuing DFSA Innovation Testing Licence · DIFC, Dubai