Professional Advisory Board

The few people we call when it matters.

A non-technical solo founder moving fast. There are rooms where one call with the right person saves a month — or prevents a real mistake. We're filling three to five of those seats.

Know who we should be talking to? Make an intro →
3–5 seats · by gap, not by logo
open now
The bar

Five we call beat fifteen we don't.

The failure mode of an advisory board is collecting logos for a deck. We're not doing that. Every seat maps to a real, current gap in what the founder can do alone — and stays empty until the right person fills it.

Three jobs, in order: fill a genuine skill gap, lend credibility ahead of the raise, and make warm introductions — to investors, venue partners, press, and hires.

we're not collecting names. we're filling gaps.

The gaps

Where one call changes the month.

The open seats, mapped to the gap each one fills for Converge specifically. We're recruiting against the high-priority rows first.

Domain Why it's a gap for us Priority
Music & nightlife industry
Core to the mission — we serve artists, promoters, and venues. An insider keeps the product credible to the people it claims to serve and opens venue/promoter doors.
High
Consumer-social growth
Cold-start, density, virality — the hardest part of the model and the thing the North Star depends on.
High
Startup legal & formation
Cap table, SAFE terms, advisor + employee agreements, trademark. Active needs right now, not someday.
High
Fundraising & venture
An operator-turned-angel who can pressure-test the deck and make warm investor introductions.
Med-high
Campus & Gen-Z GTM
Validates the Howard / UCLA playbook. May overlap with growth — we won't double-count a seat.
Med
Technical & product
Mostly covered by our lead developer — only if you'd be a senior second opinion he can escalate to.
Low-med
// 3–5 seats total — we pick across the high rows, not all of them
The commitment

One or two hours a month.

01 /
A call or two a month — we bring you the hard problems in your domain, not status updates.
02 /
Responsiveness to async questions and a quarterly group sync with the other advisors.
03 /
Introductions, when they're right — the most underrated advisor value. No quota, just the door when it makes sense.
Compensation

Status now. Equity for the closest few.

Now · everyone
Status & access
The "Converge Advisor" title, early product access, your name on the organization page and the deck, and a quarterly founder sync. Mutual expectations in writing from day one.
At cap-table / raise close
Equity, for the top 1–2
The most senior, most engaged advisors convert to a small grant via a standard FAST agreement — typically 0.10–0.50%, vesting over 24 months with a mutual off-ramp. Not the whole board.
To be clear

Advisors advise, intro, and lend their name. They don't direct the company, vote, or carry fiduciary duty — that's the board of directors, which is a different thing entirely. "Advisor" is not "co-founder."

Become an advisor

Tell us which gap you fill.

We recruit against the gaps above. Point us at the one you'd own — or introduce someone who should. Every note is read by the founder.

Putting yourself forward or making an intro — both welcome.
If you're introducing someone, drop their link.
Be specific. One real gap you'd own beats a list of everything you've touched.
Got it — thank you.
We read every note and reach out when a gap matches. We keep the board small on purpose.

Every seat is still empty.

We'd rather hold a gap open than fill it with the wrong name. If you'd close one of the rows above, let's talk.