PartnershipDNA
PartnershipDNA is 308's proprietary legal operating framework for building with other companies. It settles intellectual property, confidentiality, and decision authority before work begins, so small firms can build together without fear.
Small firms, lined up against each other.
The capability high-assurance sectors need is spread across hundreds of small companies, and procurement keeps pitting them against each other for thin slices of the same work. Firms burn margin on bids. Buyers get fragments. The capability that only exists in combination never gets built. PartnershipDNA exists to end that arrangement.
Everything agreed before anything is built.
Every PartnershipDNA engagement starts by putting the important things in writing, before a line of work is done. What you brought stays yours. What we build together is owned the way we agreed at the outset. Who decides and who answers for the outcome is set from the start, with one partner accountable for the whole so responsibility stays clear.
What you keep.
Your IP
Background IP stays yours, ringfenced in writing before any work starts.
Your credit
Contribution is recognised and tied to what you actually deliver.
Clear lines
One partner stays accountable for the whole, so responsibility never scatters.
Your time
Involvement is scoped to the work, not an open-ended commitment.
“Like they say on my cape cod, a rising tide lifts all boats.” — JFK
We build it, and we own it, together.
Partners don't subcontract to 308. They take a stake. Where a build is funded by us, by a grant, or by outside investment, the stake is shared and the upside travels with it. The exact shape is set per engagement, because no two builds carry the same risk or the same contribution. We work that out in the room, together, as people bootstrapping something real rather than a buyer and a supplier.
Who we're looking for.
Operators, engineers, and researchers with capability that actually deploys, proven in regulated or high-consequence environments. Solo specialists and small firms both fit.
A real track record
Capability that has deployed in regulated or high-consequence environments, not slideware.
A security posture that holds
Practices that stand up to scrutiny from the first conversation.
A clean supply chain
Sourcing that is secure and transparent end to end.
The scrutiny runs both ways. We open the same details to the people we build with, because trust on a serious build cannot point in one direction.
Plain answers.
Bring what you've built.
If you have capability that deploys and a record in environments that punish failure, the door is open.