Investors: join us
Who we are looking for, and how to start: helpers for the summit this week, people who want to be part of the founding team, a business partner to run the company as CEO, technical journalists, investors, and anyone who would rather do it themselves.
On this page
PrompTugal is recruiting, and the way in is to start. The people who build this company should come from the people already involved: help now, visibly, and you are first in line when it becomes official.
Who are you?
| You are | What we are looking for | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| Free this week | A back-office team for Web Summit Lisbon (9 to 12 November 2026), beside the seven of us at the summit: checking facts, writing with the agents, curating the days, design, Portuguese, outreach drafts. Unpaid, with your name on your work, and you will learn a lot | Help this week |
| A would-be founder | People who want to be part of the founding team: involved now, official later | Join the founding team |
| A senior person from the news industry | A business partner as CEO: someone who has run companies, ideally senior in news, frustrated at not being able to execute their vision, to run the operations of a newsroom that already runs | The partner we need |
| A journalist | Very technical journalists, who want agents as their desk and every fact sourced | Journalists |
| An investor | A seed round for the explorer phase | The investment (decks 1 and 5) |
| Someone who would rather do it themselves | Everything is open source | Do it yourself (deck 8) |
Help this week
The summit is 9 to 12 November 2026. The seven of us at the venue are the front of house; we need people behind and beside them, working the same way the current team does: openly, with visibility, unpaid, in a win-win where everyone learns. The team today is a mix of Gen Z and Gen X, and it was onboarded in days.
What helping looks like: a few hours on a beat (a day of the summit, a country, a sector), with the agents doing the repeatable work and you deciding what is true, useful and well told.
Join the founding team
There are no founding shares to hand out on a website, and we will not pretend otherwise. What there is: a company that is raising, a plan, and a promise of how it will work. When investment comes, everyone on the team has a stake in the game (shares that come alive on milestones or a sale, like UK growth shares, or according to how they come in), and everyone is paid; then we accelerate. Who gets there first is the people who are here before it is official.
The partner we need
Dinis Cruz is the founder and CTO: he builds the technology that powers PrompTugal, full time, across his companies. What PrompTugal needs is a CEO: a business partner who has run companies, ideally senior in the news industry, to run the operations, the customers and the company, and to bring the industry's experience the team does not yet have. Maybe also an investor. From anywhere in the world.
Journalists
Hiring journalists is one of the first uses of the investment: very technical people, who want to work with agents as their research and production desk, with every fact sourced and every article signed, and no tracking of the people who read them.
How to start
Talk to Dinis Cruz at Web Summit Lisbon, 9 to 12 November 2026, or try the site first and come with what you would do. Back to the pitch.
Source: Dinis Cruz, 7 November 2026.