Startup Apprentice

AI-Forward Apprentices (2 Openings) I’m looking for two high-agency apprentices to work directly with me across multiple startup projects. This is not a traditional internship. This is

• building real companies
• making real money
• running real experiments
• learning how things actually work

If you’re looking for something structured, predictable, or safe — this is not that. Who You Are (or at least, who you’re becoming) You are

• *AI-forward**

• Not “I’ve used ChatGPT”

• More like “my friends can’t believe the things I build with AI”

You have

• *high agency**

• Not “I don’t take no for an answer”

• More like “if it doesn’t violate the laws of physics, it’s probably possible”

You are a

• *fantastic communicator**

• Not good

• Not great
• Fantastic

You can translate chaos into clarity (bonus points: you enjoy it) You are a

• *fast learner who likes learning**

• Not just capable — you actually enjoy picking up new tools, systems, ideas You are

• *excited by this**

• Not mildly interested

• Not “this could be cool”
• You feel a pull toward this kind of opportunity

❌ This Is NOT For You If

• You need step-by-step instructions for everything
• You’re optimizing for comfort, stability, or predictability
• You’re afraid of failure or looking stupid
• You want a clean, linear career path
• You get overwhelmed by ambiguity and don’t know how to move anyway

What We’ll Be Doing

• *Brand Building
• I currently have 2 startups gaining first customers, ~6 startup projects pre-launch and another ~6 in pre-dev. We have a lot of work to do.
• *Growth Hacking
• Finding attention arbitrage, innovating GTM, chasing asymmetric upside
• *Lean Startups
• Concept → customer → revenue with minimal capital (sometimes zero)
• *Failing (intentionally)
• Most things will not work
• That is expected
• The goal is information, iteration, and leverage
• (It’s not failure if the goal is learning)
• *Managing Interns**

• Not to get too meta with it, but I need help with interns. I have nearly infinite interns enthusiastic to help. I need help wrangling them, and managing the turnaround.

• At a certain point this job is more of a management kind of role where you need to be able to not only get things done but also oversee other folks getting things done.

What This Looks Like

• Being an
• *AI generalist**

who uses tools to get things done efficently

• Learning new tools, processes, and systems constantly
• Taking initiative without waiting for permission
• Wrangling chaos into something usable
• Communicating frequently (Slack, async, occasional calls)
• Helping manage people and systems as things scale

️ Who I Am Hi, I'm Grant Walker, founder of Catalyst House. (Look me up and send me a request - This is a test.)

• I was a nerd before it was cool. My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a truly floppy disk. I was making websites in middle school in the 90s.
• I have started at least a dozen businesses. Some did ok. Most failed or I got bored.
• I am a multipotentialite autodidactical high agency phenom with a bad case of logophilia. You may have heard of "Jack of all trades, master of none", well I am more like "Ace of all trades, master of some". I've had several successful careers and I'm on bonus laps now.
• I am entering my teaching era. After a quarter-century working in tech I have picked up a few things. My experiences in running workshops and training have been very rewarding and I'm looking to take on someone to teach some of the higher-level lessons to. If this doesn't work out I'll just write some books.
• I am very into ethics, reciprocal energy, and non-coercivity. We will be helping each other and working together to build things that are mutually beneficial. I don't want either of us to be taking advantage of each other or trying to convince each other of things.

What I’m Asking For

• Help building things that are not always profit-maximizing (some are just good for the world)
• Help building businesses that
• do*

make money quickly

• Help building startups we can potentially sell short-term to my private equity network
• Help managing people and building systems that make all of the above work

Compensation (Read This Carefully) This is not hourly. This is not salary. This is

• *participation in upside**

.

• *Training
• Access to my internal learning platform

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