Founder

Co-Founder & CEO – AI Proposal & Pursuit Platform for AEC Firms

North America (Remote-friendly)

The Opportunity: Loud Solutions is partnering with a VC/incubator that owns proprietary IP for a new AI-native platform that transforms how architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms win project pursuits and proposals.

Today, AEC proposal and marketing teams are drowning in complexity:

• Technical experts are constantly being chased for input under tight deadlines
• Project experience and content libraries are outdated, scattered, and hard to reuse
• RFQs, RFPs, and qualification packages require manual requirement tracking across business development, technical leaders, and executives
• Submissions are slower than they should be, win rates are inconsistent, and the operational strain is directly tied to firm growth and backlog visibility

This work is slow, high-stakes, and largely manual. Most firms are coordinating across email threads, shared drives, and disconnected tools that were never built for the speed and precision modern pursuits demand.

This venture is rebuilding AEC proposal operations from the ground up — an AI-native platform that automates requirement and compliance tracking, intelligently reuses institutional knowledge and proposal content, and streamlines coordination across technical experts, so firms move faster, reduce submission risk, and pursue more opportunities with the same teams.

We're looking for a Co-Founder & CEO to lead this from validated problem → product → revenue → scale.

What You'll Own:

Win the Market

• Lead customer discovery with AEC firm principals, BD leaders, and proposal managers
• Run pilots, close early customers, and shape pricing
• Validate retention, expansion, and pursuit win rates — not just demos

Build the Product

• Work closely with the incubator's product and engineering team
• Translate complex proposal workflows and compliance requirements into intelligent, reusable AI tooling
• Ensure AI outputs are accurate, auditable, and firm-ready for submission

Own Go-To-Market

• Define ICP, buyer personas, and sales motion (BD, marketing, or principal-led)
• Build credibility in a relationship-driven, deadline-sensitive professional services market
• Balance AI sophistication with the practical realities of AEC firm operations

Raise Capital

• Lead the seed round with backing from the VC/incubator
• Build a clear Vertical AI narrative grounded in win rate improvement, submission speed, and operational efficiency
• Use customer proof and adoption as the primary fundraising engine

Build the Company

• Hire and lead the founding team
• Set execution standards, culture, and pace
• Own P&L, prioritization, and long-term strategy

What's Already in Place:

Proprietary IP

• A differentiated AI proposal foundation built around requirement tracking, content reuse, and cross-team coordination
• Designed specifically for AEC pursuit workflows — not generic AI retrofits

Capital & Infrastructure

• Initial funding to build V1 and secure early customers
• Access to experienced operators, engineers, and advisors via the VC/incubator

A Real Market

• AEC firms are actively seeking solutions that reduce pursuit costs and improve win rates without adding headcount
• Proposal complexity continues to grow as RFP requirements expand and competition intensifies

Who This Is For:

This role is best suited for someone who is:

• A founder, senior operator, or GM in B2B SaaS, Vertical AI, or AEC/professional services technology
• Comfortable selling early into relationship-driven, deadline-sensitive environments
• Able to balance product innovation with the operational realities of AEC firm workflows
• Motivated by ownership, not job titles

You likely bring:

• Founder-level drive – this is not an advisory or experimental role
• Strong GTM capability – enterprise or mid-market B2B sales experience
• Product judgment – simplifying complex proposal workflows into fast, reusable AI systems
• People leadership – hiring well and setting a high execution bar

Highly relevant experience (not all required):

• AEC, government contracting, or professional services proposal management
• B2B SaaS for architecture, engineering, construction, or related industries
• Selling to BD leaders, firm principals, or proposal managers
• Second-time founder experience

What You Can Expect:

• Full-time, exclusive commitment to building the company
• Significant equity ownership
• Full P&L responsibility
• Direct control over product, GTM, and company direction
• A real opportunity to modernize how AEC firms compete and win

This is not a side project or studio experiment. It's a chance to own a real Vertical AI company, solving a problem firm leaders care about and proposal teams desperately want fixed.