Managing Partner · Cohort 01

One operator
on the record.
More to come.

Cupel is being built the same way we build companies: named operators only, added as they sign. Today that is the Managing Partner. Additional partners and the operating bench for Cohort 01 will appear here as they close, with prior work attached.

MP · 01
Cupel Studio
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Managing PartnerEst. 2025
Managing Partner
Jack Gierlich

Fifteen years commercializing software in regulated healthcare, a market where enterprise sales cycles run twelve months and every buyer conversation has to be earned. An operator who still writes production code across the modern web and data stack.

At Cupel he sets the wedge thesis, makes the Day-90 verdicts, owns the investor relationships, and is accountable for pipeline. Every founder in Cohort 01 works with him weekly, in their customer and investor calls, until additional partners are named.

The operating bench

Around the partner.

Shared functions the studio runs for every company in a cohort. Individual operators on the bench are named as they sign for Cohort 01.

Engineering

A small bench of engineers available for hands-on pairing in the first thirty days of a build.

Sales team

A distributed sales bench, going live with Cohort 01, pointed at each company's target accounts from Week 5. Outbound sequencing, discovery interviews, and pilot conversion run through the bench. The founder shadows every stage until they can run the process alone.

Design

One shared brand and product designer across the cohort.

Legal

Delaware C-corp formation, the standard document kit, and the capture instruments.

Cohort 01 · Named operators

Sales, engineering, and studio operators for Cohort 01 will be listed here as they sign, with prior work attached. No placeholder cards until then.

Advisors

Specialist advisors on call.

Advisors sit in on cohort reviews when their domain is relevant. They do not run the day-to-day; they make the Day-90 verdict sharper.

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