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Partnership Application

Name the constraint. We will tell you what to ship past it.

We partner with a handful of regulated-industry teams each year. Tell us the regulatory or safety constraint slowing you down, and the binary outcome you would buy past it — we read every application.

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Before You Apply

Straight answers for founders and CTOs who don't have time for sales theater.

What kind of companies do you partner with?

Funded startups and enterprise teams shipping production AI into regulated industries — healthcare (HIPAA, FDA 510(k), IEC 62304), mobility (ASPICE, ISO 26262), IoT (IEC 62443, NIS2), and logistics. Our partners typically have $2M+ in revenue or Series A+ funding, a named regulatory or safety constraint, and a binary outcome they need to buy past it. If you're pre-revenue and exploring, we're not the right fit yet.

How is this different from hiring an agency?

Agencies sell hours. We sell deployed AI surfaces with the regulatory and safety story already written. We embed as a Forward Deployed Engineering team — owning the architecture, the model evaluation, the compliance evidence, and the runbook your internal team will inherit. Milestones are tied to a named outcome (state-change), not to a feature list. If the outcome doesn't land, we re-engage until it does.

Why do you turn away so many companies?

Because mediocre partnerships produce mediocre deployments — and in regulated industries that means recall risk, audit findings, or a model that quietly fails in production. We keep a small portfolio so every engagement gets senior engineers who have actually shipped through HIPAA, FDA, ASPICE, IEC 62443, or NIS2 review. We also say no when the constraint isn't regulatory or safety-critical — landing pages and prototypes are not what we're built for.

What does an engagement cost?

We have three engagement tiers. (1) AI Deployment Bootcamp — $75K fixed for five days, $125K for ten-day high-regulation engagements; ends with a deployable architecture and a written compliance story. (2) Forward Deployed Pod — $85–120K/month, a senior pod embedded for 3–9 months, scoped to a named state-change. (3) Outcome Contract — $500K to $2M+, fixed-fee on a binary outcome (e.g., 510(k) cleared, production AI surface live in a regulated path). No hourly billing, no time-and-materials.

How fast can you start?

We open one to two pod slots per quarter. Bootcamps move faster — most start within 2–3 weeks of the first call. The Bootcamp itself doubles as our scoping phase: by day five you have a deployable architecture, a regulatory evidence map, and an honest call on whether a Pod or Outcome Contract is the right next step. No multi-week discovery sprint to pay for before the work starts.

What if the fit isn't right?

Bootcamp is the safety valve. If we don't see a path to a deployed outcome by day five, we tell you — and you keep the architecture, the model-evaluation plan, and the regulatory evidence map. Ongoing engagements have clean exit points at each phase boundary. No lock-in, no penalties, and the IP is yours from day one.

We review every application. Expect a response within 48 hours — faster if the fit is obvious.