cofounder.school — intake 001
live assessment

A £6 trillion asset class is about to fracture.
One seat remains at the table.

This is not a job posting. There is no application form.
There are three rounds. A clock. And a question
most people won't be able to answer.

116K
Farms exposed
£6.2T
Asset class
1
Seat open
Round 01 — Seeing
03:00
Pattern Recognition

In April 2026 the UK government capped Agricultural Property Relief.
Everyone sees a tax problem.
What do you see?

We're not looking for policy analysis. We want to know
if you can see the system that needs to exist.

A liquidity crisis
Farms that can't be sold fast enough to pay the bill. Forced liquidation at scale.
A tokenisation opportunity
Fractional ownership unlocks capital without forcing a sale. The tech exists.
A data problem
Nobody knows which farms are exposed, how much they owe, or when. The map doesn't exist.
All of these — and something else
The real opportunity isn't any single layer. It's the system that connects them.
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Round 02 — Building
02:30
Systems Architecture

Tokenise a real farm without the farmer losing control.
Which structure survives contact with reality?

Pick the approach. Then tell us what breaks.

Direct NFT + fractions
Mint the farm. Sell ERC-1155 fractions. Owner holds the master token.
SPV wrapper
Farm into a special purpose vehicle. Tokens represent equity in the SPV. Farmer keeps operational control via management agreement.
Yield tokenisation
Don't tokenise the land — tokenise the income. Farmer keeps 100% ownership. Investors buy future yield rights.
None of these
You see a better structure. Explain it below.
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Round 03 — Reading
03:00
Social Intelligence

Three people applied for this seat.
Read their messages. Pick the one you'd take the call with.

Then tell us what the other two got wrong.

Candidate A
Subject: "Massive synergy potential — let's connect"

Hi team — I've been tracking the agritech space for a while and I think there's a massive opportunity here. I bring a strong network of HNW investors and strategic partners across EMEA. Previously scaled a fintech from zero to Series A. I can leverage my connections to fast-track your go-to-market and bring institutional credibility. Happy to jump on a call to explore synergies. Let's make this happen.

Candidate B
Subject: "Application for Co-Founder Role — Agricultural Asset Tokenisation Platform"

Dear Hiring Committee, I am writing to express my strong interest in the co-founder position at your agricultural technology venture. With over eight years of experience in blockchain architecture, decentralised finance protocols, and real-world asset tokenisation frameworks, I believe I am uniquely positioned to contribute to your mission of democratising access to agricultural investment opportunities. I have extensive experience with ERC-3643 compliant token standards, regulatory sandbox frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, and have published research on fractional ownership models for illiquid asset classes. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my expertise aligns with your strategic objectives.

Candidate C
Subject: "the IHT thing — I think I get it"

Hey — I saw your gauntlet thing and nearly closed the tab. Then I kept thinking about it.

My grandparents had a smallholding in Pembrokeshire. Sold after my nan died because nobody could work out how to keep it and pay the tax. I was 14. It's a Travelodge car park now.

I've been building compliance infra for a DeFi protocol for the last two years. Mostly Solidity, some Rust, lot of regulatory plumbing nobody wants to do. I don't have a big network. I do have opinions on SPV structures and I think your yield-rights approach is probably wrong — but close.

I'd want to argue about the architecture before I committed to anything. That's probably either exactly what you want or exactly what you don't.

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Round 04 — Rain
03:00
Conviction

The founder spent twelve years as a full-time carer.
Lost the family home to the tax he's now building against.
Works from a converted ambulance.
Has three children.

He doesn't need someone who believes in the idea.
He needs someone who builds when it rains.

Tell us about your rain.

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You just completed the hardest cofounder filter in UK agritech.

The founder's name is Colin Porter.
His mother died of pancreatic cancer. His father died a year later.
The family home — held for 40 years — was lost to inheritance tax.
He's been building the system to stop it happening to anyone else
from a converted London ambulance called the BitVan.

Tokenise.Farm

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SPV structuring with CMS Law · DigiShares enterprise licence ·
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