For aligning with Griff on what I own and drive as Platform Partner over the next 3 months — scope, fund value, and the honest 5-month fork. Judged by real progress (a founder / LP / partner gets further), not activity.
The platform role is generous and open-ended (~10+ hrs/week, main online presence). I want us aligned on the handful of things I actually drive, so it isn't diffuse — and honest about the fork: I may leave in ~5 months to launch the lab, or stay toward full partner. Either way, these three months compound for the fund.
01
Sourcing engine — own it end-to-end
Serves the fundNick's #1 — "find good founders." The top of the funnel that turns the raise into deal flow. My clearest co-authored surface (I built Apart's).
3-mo milestoneJPV watchlist/deal CRM live in Airtable, ≥100 qualified founders + warm-path mapped; ≥15 I sourced reach a partner first-meeting.
From GriffAgree it's mine to own end-to-end (not split); a standing way to hand sourced founders to you + Nick.
02
Platform ship-list — things just go online
Serves the fundThe founder-facing surface. ideas.juniperventures.xyz is live; then research (field-map), jobs, admin — one shipped every ~2–3 weeks, all on Cloudflare (host-outage-proof).
3-mo milestoneideas ✅ · research field-map v1 · one of {jobs, admin} live.
From GriffBuy-in on the subdomain plan; permission to ship lean and iterate — no internal-tool-building hell, no gold-plating.
03
Content + brand engine — the main online presence
Serves the fundSourcing magnet + LP credibility + the fund's public voice. LinkedIn/X launch (Platform Partner); a founder talk series (co-host e.g. Mathias); essays; the visual artifacts.
3-mo milestoneLaunch post live; talk series running (≥2 sessions); a recurring content cadence.
From GriffGreen-light to be the public face; a small budget/ops for the talk series (Diana).
04
Compute cluster (421 Tehama) — land the decision
Serves the fundCompute as the sharpest founder carrot + a strategic asset; David-funded so it's off the fund's balance sheet.
3-mo milestoneDavid go/no-go + structure decided; if go, PG&E application filed + real B200 quote.
From GriffAlign with you + Nick on the exact ask to David before it goes out.
05
The raise — deck + data rooms (P0 now)
Serves the fundDirectly. Everyone's waiting (Liz Yin et al.).
3-mo milestoneDeck + data rooms current and used in ≥5 LP/investor conversations.
From GriffPair on it now (the call you asked for); tell me where it doesn't yet represent us well.
06
Founder + LP relationships
Serves the fundThe relationships are the firm. Meet every portfolio founder 1:1 + all core LPs; real relationships, logged, with follow-ups.
3-mo milestone1:1 with all ~15–17 portfolio founders; met all core LPs.
From GriffWarm intros / handoffs into the portfolio + LP base.
07 · the honest one
Research / lab incubation — the co-authorship
What it isReal AI-safety research while at Juniper — the probe → train-away experiment (with FAR), the open-weight-realignment lab thinking, the per-country governance idea. The "tendrils in AI safety" part I said yes to the role for.
Serves the fundThe thesis-shaping, originating work that keeps me genuinely in (the 10zeros lesson: I need to co-author, not just execute). Deepens Juniper's AI-safety positioning + my policy/credibility reach as a partner.
The fork, openThe FAR experiment (weeks, cheap) gates whether the lab is real. Signal → I may leave in ~5 months to build it; no signal → I stay and go deeper toward full partner. Transparent, not a surprise.
From GriffExplicit agreement that originating (not just executing) is part of my remit, and that the research thread is fine alongside the platform work — with honesty about the fork.
The ask, in one line
Agree these seven as my lane, confirm the platform role includes originating + a research thread, and let's revisit at the ~3-month / 5-month mark with the FAR experiment's result as the input to the fork.