Your Equity-Free Technical Cofounder

Ship the right architecture before you write a line of code.

The technical cofounder for non-technical founders — a production-grade architecture, stack, and build plan, the way a senior CTO would do it. For 0% equity.

Read-only, one pass — your real components, workflows & risks, animated in 3D. No repo yet? Describe your idea instead →

Instant & free · no signup · or play with a live 3D system first ↓

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Play with a real architecture, right here.

Three real systems Jaguar designs and reviews — 6 layers, 20+ components, replicas and all. Pick a use case, click a business workflow, and watch the data move through the system.

🤖 Agentic AI SaaS

LLM agents with RAG, guardrails, evals — and cost caps so one user can't blow up your bill. More references live in Studio.

Click a workflow, watch the data move:
Stress-test — drag your growth:100K DAU
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Missing at this scale — add these: LLM Queue + CacheAt 100K daily users — fix in this order:1. Postgres · 70% Add read replicas + PgBouncer, push hot reads into a cache, partition the biggest tables.2. Model Router · 68% Queue + cache responses, batch calls, add a fallback provider — LLM paths are rate-limit-bound.3. LLM Providers · 68% Queue + cache responses, batch calls, add a fallback provider — LLM paths are rate-limit-bound.
Your scaling roadmap — build in this order as you grow (click to jump):

Drag to orbit · scroll to zoom · ×N = replicas that scale · red dashes = what's missing. Design your own in Studio → — or paste your GitHub repo there and see your actual system in 3D, your real workflows animated.

The problem

Vibe-coding tools ship features. Nobody's designing the system.

Chaotic foundations. AI coding tools generate code fast — but with no architecture, you accumulate tech debt from week one.
Wrong stack, expensive rewrites. The wrong database or auth choice costs months to unwind once you have users.
The cofounder trap. A technical cofounder costs 33–50% of your company — and ~65% of high-potential startups blow up over cofounder conflict. A $250k CTO hire isn't realistic pre-seed.
Compliance blind spots. Fintech and health apps need it right the first time — HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2 aren't afterthoughts.
What Jaguar AI does

Design it. Check it. Build it.

The loop a technical cofounder runs — before, during, and after your build.

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1 · Design

From an idea, PRD, Figma — or just a URL — Jaguar architects the full system: services, data, stack, and compliance (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2), every choice justified in plain English.

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2 · Review

Upload your design or what your dev, agency, or AI tool built. Jaguar overlays ranked risks on the exact components affected — and shows the corrected design.

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3 · Build plan

A phase-by-phase plan with paste-ready prompts for Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor — guardrails baked in. Clear enough for an intern. No CTO required.

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Eason Chen — founder of Jaguar AIFounder
From the founder

I spent 10 years becoming a CTO. Now I'm building one.

“Senior infrastructure engineer at Bloomberg. An a16z-backed exit. And one expensive lesson, learned over and over: great ideas don't die from bad products — they die from the systems underneath them. A technical cofounder catches that on day one, but they cost 33–50% of your company — if you can find one at all. So I'm building that cofounder, for every founder who can't.”

Ex-Bloomberga16z exitLaunch acceleratorSF & NYC
Eason ChenFounder & CEO, Jaguar AI
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The landscape

Where Jaguar AI fits.

The category isn't code generation — it's technical judgment.

CapabilityVibe-coding
(Lovable, Bolt, v0)
AI IDEs
(Cursor, Copilot)
Human fractional CTOJaguar AI
Generates full architecturePartial✓ Instant
Reviews existing code & designLine-level✓ System-level
Justifies stack decisions
Industry compliance built inSometimes
Available in minutes
Monthly cost$20–100$20–40$4k–15kfree to try · from $199/mo
The retainer · what a cofounder does all day

A technical cofounder isn't a one-off review.
It's judgment you need every day.

Think about what a real CTO cofounder actually does between launches: decides what to build, reviews what got built, unblocks the team, and watches for drift. Jaguar does those four jobs — without the salary or the 10–50% equity a human cofounder costs.

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Decide

Every new feature starts as a spec: Jaguar architects it, picks the stack, and writes the build plan — before a line of code exists.

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Review

Paste a Lovable/Bolt/v0 link, a screenshot, or a repo export — Jaguar reviews what your dev, agency, or AI actually shipped against the plan. GitHub auto-review on every PR is rolling out.

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Unblock

"Can we use Firebase for this?" "Is this quote fair?" "Why is it slow?" — plain-English answers grounded in your architecture, plus paste-ready prompts for your builder.

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Watch

Project memory keeps every decision; a monthly health report tells you what's built, what's risky, and what to do next — so nothing drifts silently.

Now onboarding design partners

This is Co-pilot — your AI technical cofounder on retainer for $199/mo, zero equity. Most founders start with a one-time review, then keep Jaguar on from MVP to launch.

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Pricing

A fraction of a fractional CTO.

Start free. Get one deep audit with a CTO in the room — then keep a co-pilot watching every repo as you build.

✦ Free: run your first design review in Studio — no card, no call.

Review

A senior CTO reviews your codebase — once, deeply, with you.
$499one-time
The Audit
  • Every finding, ranked — plus a prioritized roadmap
  • Private-repo scan + corrected architecture
  • Build-spec hand-off (PDF)
  • A live 30–45 min session with Eason on your actual code
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Co-pilot

Your technical cofounder, on retainer.
$199/mo
Recurring
  • Everything in Review — but continuous
  • Unlimited re-scans across all your repos
  • Weekly check: what changed, what'll bite you
  • Design version history — catch drift early

Fractional CTO

Agent + a human senior engineer.
$1,499/mo
Recurring
  • Everything in Co-pilot
  • Human-in-the-loop reviews & calls
  • Compliance support (HIPAA/PCI/SOC 2)
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Enterprise

Continuous monitoring & self-hosted.
Custom
For technical teams
  • Continuous GitHub monitoring
  • SSO, audit logs & self-hosted
  • Custom templates & security review
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Q&A

Questions, answered.

Are you replacing my AI coding tool? +

No — we're the layer above it. Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Cursor are great at writing code. Jaguar AI decides what should be built and how the system fits together, then reviews what those tools produce. Think architect and inspector, not bricklayer.

I'm non-technical. Will I understand the output? +

Yes. Every architecture comes with a plain-English explanation of each decision and why it matters. You'll be able to brief a developer, agency, or AI tool with confidence — and know when something looks wrong.

Why not just find a technical cofounder? +

If you can — great, and Jaguar still helps you vet what they build. But the market reality: a technical cofounder takes 33–50% equity, takes months to find, and cofounder conflict is the #1 startup killer — research on high-potential startups attributes ~65% of failures to it. Jaguar gives you the judgment layer for $199/mo, zero equity, from day one — and if the right human cofounder shows up later, you'll hand them a well-architected system instead of a rewrite.

How is this different from hiring a fractional CTO? +

A human fractional CTO costs $4k–15k/month and has limited hours. Jaguar gives you the same technical judgment instantly, for a flat fee — and if you want a real human in the loop, our Fractional CTO tier pairs the AI with a senior engineer.

What can I feed it? +

A one-line idea, a full PRD, a spec doc, Figma or screenshot designs — or your GitHub repo, including a codebase your AI tool already generated. The more you give, the sharper the architecture and review.

Do you handle regulated industries? +

Yes. Our fintech and healthcare templates bake in PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR considerations so high-stakes products are designed correctly from day one.

Do you need access to my code or repo? +

No. You share what you have — a link, screenshots, a PDF, or an export — and Jaguar reviews it. Nothing connects to your systems, and your uploads are used only to produce your review. Continuous GitHub monitoring exists for technical teams on Enterprise, and it's read-only and opt-in.

Who owns the output? +

You do — completely. Architectures, diagrams, and recommendations are yours to use, share, and build on however you like.

Now onboarding founders

Meet the technical cofounder you've been looking for.

Describe your idea and watch Jaguar architect it in minutes. No engineer, no equity, no wait.