About

A table, a clock, and people who expect to see your work

Co-Build Table meets in a coffee shop for two hours on select weekday afternoons. Some people are working a job search; others a business model, a website, or an app.

The tracks differ; the discipline is the same. Name one outcome, work it in the open, and report what moved before you pack up.

The people most capable of starting something have the least unclaimed time and the fewest people asking how the idea is going. This gives them both, on a schedule, for the price of a coffee.

Community impact

The point of building is not only a return. Ventures started at this table should leave the people around them better off.

Ethical practices

How the thing gets built matters as much as whether it gets built. We hold each other to work we'd be comfortable explaining out loud.

Transparency

Real numbers, real progress, real stuckness. Nobody performs momentum they don't have.

Our vision

Empowering the next generation of builders

To support consultants, entrepreneurs, and professionals who want more control over their time and career — providing the tools, frameworks, and community needed to build sustainable, impactful ventures.

Career independenceMentorshipCommunity impactEthical practicesTransparency

Founder's story

Building ventures with purpose and principle

For over 20 years, Cory Roberson has helped entrepreneurs, students, and professionals build ventures with lasting impact — two decades in investment management, pushing for transparency, accountability, and ethical practice.

He has contributed to more than ten community and educational programs across California, New Orleans, Brazil, China, South Korea, Thailand, and South Africa. His book From Student to Entrepreneur lays out a framework for turning ideas into purposeful ventures.

"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms."
1 Peter 4:10

Co-Build Table applies that same product and service development background at a much smaller scale: one table, one afternoon, one increment of the thing you said you'd start.

Track record

Where the tracks come from: the FIN Group project

When people ask who Cory is and what he's actually done, the shortest answer is FIN Group — the compliance and RegTech venture he runs at fincompliance.io. It serves investment advisers and financial firms with compliance consulting, technology, and education built around transparency and ethical practice.

FIN Group went through every step this table asks of you: define the customer, price the offer, write the plan, brand it, ship the site, build the product, find the first clients. The four tracks aren't theory — they're the sequence he has run himself.

Not a course: an operator still doing the unglamorous middle of venture building, sitting next to you.

Business model and plan

Positioning a compliance service for a regulated buyer, pricing it, and writing the plan the numbers have to survive.

Scale, apps, services, products

RegTech tooling and services taken from concept to something clients actually use.

Website, brand and marketing

Naming, copy, site, and content programs that bring in advisers rather than just look finished.

Career and mentorship

Coaching students and professionals into consulting and venture work through programs and his book.

In the field

The same work, in rooms like this one

Cory teaching a classroom of students at a community education program

Cory with volunteers and organizers at a community tech event

Founders presenting their ventures at a demo session

Programs, workshops, and mentorship that came before the table — the coffee shop version is the smallest, most repeatable form of the same work.