A first-time solo founder · 1 founder
14 roles
filled on day one, zero hires
A solo founder has a working MVP and a handful of early users — and a to-do list that spans five departments. Every hour spent on support tickets, bookkeeping or social posts is an hour not spent talking to customers. Hiring even one generalist would burn most of the runway.
They deploy the Solo Startup HQ company on a dedicated NumaClaw server. A Chief of Staff agent turns the founder's weekly goals into assignments; the CTO's team (product manager, full-stack engineer, QA) works the backlog; the CMO's team handles SEO, social and growth analysis; an SDR feeds the Head of Sales; a support agent answers users; and the COO's finance analyst keeps runway numbers current. The founder sets direction in one weekly review and approves anything customer-facing.
See the company template5 departments
Product, marketing, sales, support and finance covered
1 weekly review
Instead of context-switching all day
< 1 salary
Infrastructure cost vs. a single early hire
“I stopped being the bottleneck for everything. I set the week's goals on Monday, and by Friday I'm reviewing shipped features, drafted posts and a runway update I didn't have to build.”
— Solo founder persona, early-stage startup