A single, intensive sprint engineered to take an AI-native team from conviction to a company investors compete to fund.
Insight lives in production, not in planning. We bias every week toward something real in users' hands.
One wedge, one metric, one story. We strip away everything that isn't moving the needle this week.
Models commoditize. Distribution, data and trust compound. We build the durable parts deliberately.
Designing for non-determinism, latency and trust.
Choosing, fine-tuning and evaluating models that hold up.
Building proprietary data loops that competitors can't copy.
Finding the first repeatable channel for AI products.
Selling AI into security-conscious buyers without stalling.
Pricing around inference cost so margins survive scale.
Building a small team that out-executes much larger ones.
Narrative, metrics and process for an oversubscribed round.
In-person kickoff. We tear down and rebuild your core narrative.
Define the sharpest possible entry point and the customer who can't live without it.
Ship the smallest AI-native product that delivers undeniable value.
Put it in front of real users; let the data and the churn redirect you.
Find one repeatable way to acquire customers and double down.
Turn traction into a narrative and a deck that compounds belief.
Rehearse, present to 400 investors, and run a tight process to close.
$250,000 invested for 7% on a simple, uncapped instrument, the same clean terms for every team.
Access to $2M+ in pro-rata follow-on from SpireRise Ventures and 20+ partner funds.
No program fees, no hidden carry, no surprise clauses. What you sign is what you get.
Up to $400K in GPU and inference credits, reserved capacity across clouds, and a platform team that sets up your training and serving stack in week one.
A dedicated partner who's built an AI company meets you every week to unblock the hardest decision.
On-demand access to 90+ specialists across eval, security, pricing, legal and design.
A tight group of peer founders who hold each other accountable long after the program ends.
The program ends with a curated Demo Day, in person and streamed, where every founder presents to a room engineered to convert attention into term sheets.
Technical depth and an obsession with putting things in front of users fast.
Intelligence is the product's engine, defensible because of how you use it, not that you use it.
A specific, painful problem and a customer who feels it every single day.
A team that treats twelve weeks as a gift and intends to compress a year into it.
"The curriculum was the least of it. Having an operator who'd already made our mistakes saved us six months and probably the company."
"Every module mapped to a decision we were about to get wrong. The timing was uncanny."
"Weekly milestones turned twelve weeks into a full year of real progress."
