I am working since two months with a potential non-technical co-founder, but I plan to end this collaboration. I like him personally, but he doesn’t bring enough to the table (not enough experience, not enough business acumen) for me to justify working with him anymore. Also, product-wise, I want to change direction, and I want to go my own way. Since I also have a consulting background, I am sure I can handle the client work and to be honest, I am also hungry to do sales more than my current co-founder.

We have no terms, no contract, no NDA. neither of us made any money from this, I just put in the time and I built an MVP (some data and server costs that I can handle) and we have two potentially paying customers.

If I leave, he has to let those customers go, or at least pause until he finds someone new. Now, I am fine with giving him my code and the data I bought, but I want to avoid having to keep working on this for free until he finds a new tech person.

I was thinking about revenue sharing if one or more of these opportunities turn into paying customers, but that would not be a good deal for me as I need to focus on finding new customers for another project I have in mind.

Has any of you been in this situation before and found a good solution for this? i dont want to fuck up their business, but i also need to look out for myself.