We are not hiring.
We are looking for one person.
Avena Terminal is the missing data infrastructure layer for European residential property. The technical product is built. The methodology is published. The first cold emails to ECB Research, Banco de España, the ESRB Secretariat, and FT Alphaville are sent. What it lacks is one specific person — someone whose existing institutional relationships, regulatory credibility, and B2B enterprise sales pedigree convert the next 24 months from a solo build into a regulatory-grade infrastructure company.
A senior whose CV reads like a regulator's shortlist.
45–60 years old
Late-career, financially secure, looking for the asymmetric bet that defines the last act. Not for someone trying to find their first big break.
Senior ex-institutional background
Ex-central bank quant (ECB, ESRB, BdE, BdF, Bundesbank, BdI, DNB), ex-MSCI product lead, ex-Refinitiv senior, ex-Bloomberg fixed income, ex-S&P/Moody's structured finance, or ex-CoStar. The names in your past matter because the next 24 months depend on the door they open.
Existing EU institutional relationships
You have working numbers for people at ECB, ESMA, ESRB, Banco de España, BIS, EIB, OECD Housing Observatory, or equivalent. Not a LinkedIn intro — a direct relationship from past work.
B2B enterprise sales pedigree
You have personally closed multi-year contracts at >€500k ACV with banks, asset managers, central banks, or supervisory bodies. You know how procurement at these institutions actually works. RFP, NDA, DPA, SLA, framework agreements are vocabulary you fluent in.
Finance PhD or institutional-grade credibility
Published academic work in macroprudential policy, residential finance, monetary transmission, or systemic risk. OR equivalent industry credibility (named on RICS / ESRB working groups, Chartered Financial Analyst, FRM, etc.). When you cite the methodology, the room treats it as authoritative.
Equity-heavy, lower cash
Cash compensation calibrated to late-career runway, not market rate. Equity stake commensurate with risk you're taking and value you're bringing. The bet pays out on the acquisition or IPO, not the monthly transfer. If you need a market salary, this is the wrong conversation.
Six weeks of solo build. A genuinely complete product. Zero institutional relationships.
You don't inherit a half-built MVP. You inherit a fully-shipped institutional product across thirteen surfaces: Terminal, Policy Engine, Sovereign Briefing (five volumes published), AVN-ID Registry, APON Oracle, Cross-Validation Engine, Moat Archive, Public API v1 + OpenAPI 3.1, MCP server, four repackaged enterprise products. Cited DOI, RICS Tech Partner registered, EU data residency, CC BY 4.0 open methodology. The institutional gates that take 24 months for new founders to assemble are already through.
What is missing is what you bring. The first paying central bank engagement. The first €25k/mo white-label deployment at a tier-1 bank. The first BIS or Eurex citation. The first MSCI sub-license conversation. All within reach because the product clears the institutional bar — but blocked at the introduction step because Henrik does not have the relationships you do.
Read the defensibility dossier, published research, and proof of data moat before the conversation. If you reach the form below convinced this is the asymmetric bet, send your application.
One form. No CV upload. Henrik replies personally within 7 days.
The bet thesis field below matters more than the credentials. Six sentences explaining why you think Avena specifically is the right asymmetric bet for the last act of your career — not abstract enthusiasm for proptech. If those six sentences are not yet clear in your own head, do not submit. Come back when they are.