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Matt Timmermans
This is a proposal to formalise your role in Future Proof: to have your contributions rewarded, and to give shape to what we build next. It is a serious offer, and it is yours.
After a long process with the Italian government grant from Invitalia, we have reached the final stages and are looking at incorporation, in the next month, maybe two or three. When it lands, the ecosystem stops running on goodwill and starts running on a real structure.
When I think about the people who contributed strongly to the technical side while all of this was still forming, you're one of them. The platforms, the integrations, some of the earlier builds that shipped when something had to ship. You've been part of how it got made, mostly without anyone naming it.
So this is us saying: you're already part of this. Let's formalise it, reward what you've contributed, and give shape to what we build next.
One technical and growth partner across the whole ecosystem. Not five separate jobs, one person who keeps the building safe and seen.
Audit and ongoing review across Future Proof's platforms and the partner projects it builds and supports. The eyes-on-the-code layer so nothing leaks what shouldn't.
Search integration and consulting across the Future Proof ecosystem and its partner projects. Making the discovery side of the funnel actually compound.
Generative engine optimisation across Future Proof Intelligence, Certified, and the partner projects. Being found and cited by the AI assistants people now ask first.
Deliverability and email risk across the sending infrastructure. Authentication, inbox health, and the trust that messages land where they should.
Consulting on how partners plug into Future Proof: the shared data structures, what we hand a partner, how we build and style around their world. Plus the scrapers, apps, and technical voice when something has to ship.
Future Proof builds, styles, and secures the platforms behind its own products and its partner projects. Internship Abroad is the flagship partner project: a separate company, run alongside Future Proof, whose product surfaces Future Proof helps build. Your work sits across both.
The institutional face, plus the surfaces where trust matters most: agreements, partner intel, lead capture, and the auth behind them.
The apps Future Proof builds and supports for its partner projects. Authentication, access, and the sensitive surfaces that need to hold up.
The shared data model, what Future Proof hands a partner to plug in, and how we build and style around each partner's world. The reusable spine under the partner projects.
Technical SEO and integration across the surfaces, working alongside the content engines, plus the consulting on how it all compounds.
Being cited by AI assistants, not just ranked by search. The authority and citation layer across the surfaces that matter most.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, inbox health and warmup, and the risk review so outreach and partner mail land in inboxes and not in spam.
How secrets are stored, how jobs authenticate, and the GDPR and AI Act gap view before the 2 Aug and 9 Dec 2026 deadlines bite.
Since March 2025 you've supported how Future Proof gets built. The list below records that delivered work. It is the basis for the engagement covering the months behind us.
Attached to the email is a one page engagement letter. It holds the scope, the terms, and a short block for your company details: legal name, address, VAT number, and IBAN. Fill it, sign it, send it back, and you can invoice straight away with the right wording. That's the whole admin.
Read this, sit with it, and if it feels right, the engagement letter is the only step.
The engagement letter is attached to the email