Everyone in this network needs something. Almost nobody says it out loud, so it never gets closed. This newsletter fixes that. Every week I publish the actual asks sitting on the Propel marketplace, with the person's name and face on them, and you scan the list to see whether one of them is a five-minute favour for you and a turning point for them.
Nine asks this week. Three have money attached. One of them is mine. Somebody reading this can close almost every one, because the list is short and the network is 20,000 people. Scroll, find the one you can do, and reply or click through.
Start here. This is the ask I would take first if I were you, and it is not ours.
ASK OF THE WEEK · $25,000 TO $100,000 Makayla Williams is raising for Axion An AI productivity and wellness platform under ON EARTH PRODUCTIONS. Designed, built, ready to launch. She needs investors, strategic advisors and marketing partners for the expansion phase. Eleven people have opened this ask and none of them closed it. |
You may know them from the $80,000 shooter game. Slash told the team to vibe code more, one employee burned $81,267 of AI credits in a week building a brainrot shooter on a Slash card, and instead of hiding it the company posted the receipt and asked the internet to play it so they could write it off as marketing. It went everywhere and drove 250 million dollars in deposits.
Why it matters if you build with AI. Slash ships a native MCP server. Point Claude or Cursor at one URL and your agent creates cards, sets spend limits and sends payments. Read-only keys mean the agent proposes and you approve. Card numbers are RSA-encrypted so it never sees a real PAN. On every account, free tier included.
$100M Series C in April at a $1.4B valuation, led by Ribbit with Khosla and Goodwater. $160M raised, $150M+ annual revenue. Customers get up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits, 90% off HubSpot, Intercom free for a year.
They want community partners in New York. We are also building a GTM dinner series with them in San Francisco. If you run a community, fund or accelerator in NYC, reply and I will introduce you.
Propel earns a referral commission on accounts opened through this link. Slash Financial is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Column N.A., Member FDIC.
Two more with money attached
UP TO $10,000 · ALREADY MOVING Michael Jordan Pilgreen wants introductions to diamonds markets experts and luxury real estate professionals. Those dealing in rare art, luxury, and more reach out with your opportunities. |
$500 CASH BOUNTY · THIS ONE IS MINE Introduce me to an employer hiring engineers Propel places senior engineers. I pay a flat $500 when your introduction turns into a company listing a role. We have done it before, including a senior hire at Arya Health. Founders, HR leads or hiring managers, Series A and up. |
UP TO $10,000 · POSTED AT 1AM, WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS Michael Jordan Pilgreen wants into the diamonds and luxury real estate world Introductions to diamonds market experts and luxury real estate professionals. Rare art, luxury goods, high-end property. In his words: those dealing in rare art, luxury, and more, reach out with your opportunities. This is his second live ask, and the first one already has two people on it, so he moves when somebody shows up. |
Six more, paired up
Zsombor Koman, Syneid Labs, needs two things. Program officers and grant-makers in civic AI, non-dilutive — intro him. And founders in decision-support who care what their AI encodes about the user — read that one.
Two government and institutional doors. Ayvan Krishan wants anyone inside NYS government, ideally near the Bigger Better Bottle bill — connect him. Ana Karina Da Silva built Emmas Dream, a curriculum for neurodivergent kids, and needs a school that will sign — connect her.
Two people looking for work, not money. Ritesh Doijode wants a summer 2026 robotics internship where AI actually touches control systems — respond. Makayla is also hiring filmmakers, curators and organizers at ON EARTH PRODUCTIONS, no formal experience required — read it.
Roles open in the network
Senior Software Engineer, Arya Health, NY, $160k to $200k · Python and Node, on-site, H1B transfer possible. We placed there before. · Founding Full-Stack Engineer, Envire, SF · hybrid, full-time. · Software Engineer, Arkzphere, NY · hybrid, part-time.
Growth Marketing Co-Founder, Catalyst Intro, NY · equity, part-time. · Full Stack Developer, Student Box AI, NY · hybrid, full-time. · Growth Marketing Intern, Propel Earth, NY · TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn.
Hiring? Post the role free on jobs.propel.earth and it runs here next week.
What the network sells
The marketplace is a storefront for everybody in this network. Post what you sell, post what you need, post a role you are hiring for, and it sits on the same shelf as everyone else's. That is the entire mechanic: your service is somebody's missing piece and theirs is yours, so you propel each other instead of taking turns asking. Thirty-four listings are live now, priced from $50 to $12,000, most of them from people you have already stood next to in one of our rooms.
Open your storefront · takes about two minutes, costs nothing to list.
A sample of what is worth your money this week.
$150 · 45 MINUTES · 1 TO 3 DAYS Strategy call with me Bring what you are stuck on. Raising, hiring, positioning, or working out who you actually need to meet. You leave with names and a sequence, not encouragement. |
Six more worth clicking. What Your AI Is Actually Optimizing For, Syneid Labs, $450 · Close Your First Enterprise Deal, K&Company, $750 · Fix Your Startup Conversion, DATAI, $400
Cybersecurity Audit and Risk Management, SuperGRC, $250 · Hire a student to support your business, Starteryou, $200 · Operations and Process Help, Pinpointe Group, $500
Want the room instead of a seat in it? We build and run a private event for you end to end, from the guest list to the seating chart. Custom Founder Event Partnership, $2,500.
Browse the whole marketplace, or list what you sell and it runs in a future edition.
The Private Network
Every month I hand you three introductions to people who can hire you, pay you, or move your company forward. I make each one myself, by hand, based on what you tell me you need. If I do not deliver three, you do not pay.
Members get into every Propel room free. Every month, in person and online across New York. Mixers, coworking days at The Wilson, demo nights, provider showcases, webinars. Guests pay $40 a mixer. You do not. See the full calendar.
Aurora Winters is the proof. She told us what she needed when she registered for Demo Day, we matched her before the doors opened, and she closed $100,000 a month later.
$200 a month, first 25 members locked at that rate for life. After 25 the price goes up and stays up.
Prefer to talk first? Take fifteen minutes with me.
Not for you, but you know someone? Refer them. When they join you get $50 cash and two curated introductions of your own, member treatment without the membership. It is posted as a real ask on the marketplace so you can respond to it like any other. Refer someone and claim the $50
How this works from here
Every closed ask gets written up in a future edition, with names. When you close one, tell me, because that story is the whole product.
Reply with your ask. One or two sentences, what you need, what you can pay if anything. It goes in next week. Or post it yourself on the marketplace.
New here? This is Propel Earth.
A network of roughly 20,000 founders, investors and operators, most of them in New York. We run rooms every week, we place engineers, and we match people to what they need by hand. Aurora Winters told us what she needed when she registered for Demo Day, we matched her before the doors opened, and she closed $100,000 a month later. That is the whole thesis: most of what makes a company work is who you happen to be standing next to, so we stop leaving it to chance.
The Propeller Network just opened. It is where the loop closes between editions. Post what you need in Asks, post what landed in Closed, say you are coming in Rooms, find work in Hiring, and introduce yourself so we know who you are. Free, and I read everything in there.
Post an ask · Jobs board · Showcase · Upcoming rooms · Private Network, fifteen minutes with me
Best,
Stephen
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