Co-Development Partnership
Co-Invent
with Kyros.
Not a vendor — a partner with skin in the game. We bring senior firmware and electronics engineering to founders as a committed co-developer, with flexible fee, equity, and shared-risk structures that align us around one thing: shipping your product.
What Co-Invent means
An engineering partner, not a line item
Most founders hire engineering the way they buy any service: scope, quote, invoice. Co-Invent flips that. Kyros comes in as a committed partner — we share the risk, and we share the upside — so our incentive is the same as yours: get a real product to market. The same senior team that has taken devices from concept through FDA and into production, invested in your outcome.
Partnership structures
Three ways to align
Reduced fee for equity
We trade part of our fee for a stake in what we help build. Lower cash burn for you, real alignment for us.
Milestone-based shared risk
Payments tied to shipped, working milestones. We carry more of the risk when we own more of the outcome.
Co-owned IP / joint venture
For the right idea, we build it together and share ownership of the resulting product or IP.
Structures are bespoke to your stage and idea — a conversation, not a fixed menu.
Who it is for
Co-Invent is a fit if…
How it works
From idea to invested partner
Scope together
A working session to map the product, the technical risk, and what "done" means.
Structure the deal
We propose a fee / equity / risk-sharing structure that fits your stage — no fixed menu.
Build as partners
A senior-led Kyros pod owns the engineering, invested in shipping — not just billing hours.
Have an idea worth building together?
Tell us what you're building. We'll talk through the engineering and a partnership structure that makes sense for your stage.
Start the ConversationFrequently Asked Questions
- What is Co-Invent with Kyros?
- A co-development partnership where Kyros joins a founder or startup as a committed senior engineering partner, sharing risk and upside, rather than billing purely by the hour as an outside vendor.
- How is this different from hiring Kyros for a project?
- A standard engagement is fee-for-service with a defined scope. Co-Invent aligns incentives through flexible structures, such as a reduced fee in exchange for equity, milestone-based shared risk, or co-owned IP, so Kyros wins when your product wins.
- Who is Co-Invent for?
- Early-stage founders and hardware startups with a strong product vision who need senior firmware, electronics, and systems horsepower they cannot yet hire full-time, and who would rather have an invested partner than a vendor.
- What do the partnership terms look like?
- They are bespoke to the project and stage, a conversation rather than a fixed menu. We scope the work, then structure fee, equity, and risk-sharing to fit. Start with a no-obligation call.