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The accelerator that runs the work — and is paid only if you raise.
Governed AI does the work — selection through graduation, on your numbers — and the warrant converts only on a raise or exit. Thirty seconds, beside this.
No account and no sales call — and every term of the warrant in writing before you sign anything.
The recognition
Nobody did the work — so your metrics didn’t move.
The mentorship was good and the advice was fine — but advising scales and operating doesn’t, so a programme could afford an opinion on your metric, never hands on it.
Every handover is left open, so the quarter ends on the number it started on.
Each one closes into the next, and the same number moves.
What it is
A whole programme — that runs on your numbers, not your calendar.
A programme you join: eight real steps, run by governed AI — it drafts, scores and sequences; you approve, it executes.
- The gate is step five. Everything before it decides whether you are in; everything after it is the work being done on your own numbers. One decision, the same read for every applicant.
- One guide through it. The Acceleration Guide walks you step to step — about six human calls across a whole cohort. Every score resolves to the evidence behind it, and we hold a warrant in you, so you get to check our arithmetic.
- You keep what it builds. When the cohort ends, the system and the record stay yours, intact. It is a programme you leave with something, rather than one you simply graduate from.
Instead of what
You get the programme team’s week — without the programme team.
The one thing a founder cannot buy at this stage is hands — the paid weeks a programme spends on a company before any number of yours moves.
| Selection | The job it does | Who does it elsewhere |
| Intake and triage | Reading every applicant properly instead of the first forty | A programme manager and an analyst |
| Cohort fit | The gate-zero read — is this company even a fit for this cohort | The programme director’s judgment call |
| Screening | A six-dimension scorecard, applied identically to everyone | A selection committee, and its Tuesday mood |
| Interview and diligence | The light diligence pass before admission | An associate, for a week |
| Admission | Composing the cohort, and setting each company’s depth | Whoever happens to be in the room that week |
| Operation | The job it does | Who does it elsewhere |
| The growth review | Running your workstreams on your real numbers, and gating them | A mentor roster — advising, not running |
| The support tracks | Technology, capital, team, partners — matched, not mentioned | A partner network and a lot of introductions |
| Graduation | The funder report, built from the evidence rather than the deck | The programme’s own reporting team |
A programme gives you a curriculum and a demo day; this runs the work and leaves a record.
A mentor gives you an opinion; this moves a number, and shows which evidence moved it.
An accelerator with a fund grades the company it already bought. This one cannot, and the wall that makes that true is drawn further down.
Across a fifteen-platform field scored in 2026, “AI that does the founder’s work” came out at 1.5 of 5 — published market evidence about other people’s products, and a reading of where the category was, not where it stays.
And then you go to raise
The programme ended. The record capital reads never started.
At the end you got a demo day — a stage, a slot, a deck — and everything that produced it still lives in your head.
The other side
Your cohort’s work becomes the record every investor’s mandate is read against.
The ladder below is depth of evidence, never a ranking of companies — and the cohort is a route to its deepest rung. The party that computes it is a separate legal entity, with no equity in you.
On The Funding Market, every investor holds a standing mandate — sector, stage, geography, ticket — and your graded card is checked against every one of them, around the clock.
- Light — the public register, read for you — free, already true of you, and all a stranger can see today.
- Standard — a complete data room, read and resolved — the room you built, verified rather than claimed.
- Deep — connected and live — what your cohort's standing connection produces, current as the business rather than as your last upload.
Light and Standard read what you filed; Deep reads what you are doing. You climb by connecting more of what you already do — never by editing a profile.
Next: the same quarter, priced on your own books
The recusal wall
The match-checking is the design, and it is built. What fills it is liquidity — no match has happened.
- We hold a warrant too — held in the builder entity, disclosed and recused from the grade.
- Same gates for everyone — you clear them exactly as a company that has never met us would.
- success_fee: 0 — a database constraint, not a policy.
- The same wall for licensed programmes — the gate does not know who ran your programme; an operator’s own stake stands on the same wall as ours.
A demo day that never ends is what that adds up to — and whoever pays, the founder owns the account and owns what is disclosed. What reaches an investor is the package you approve.
Two ways to reach capital. A demo day for the investors who came to see what the programme produces — and, at the deepest grade, your own door: reach a matching investor yourself, few enough to be worth their attention because it is earned.
What you get
What executed work is worth, in your own accounts.
Every figure here is yours — an average from a programme that hasn’t run is worth nothing to you, and nothing below is a result. Count each effect once.
The hours the programme gives back and the revenue those hours produce are one resource — bank one, never both — and the specialist work counts once, in external spend. One more candidate — the avoided cost of a wrong priority — is a loss avoided, not a gain, and is left out on purpose. Nothing here is a measurement: the worked version comes back on your own figures before you sign anything.
The deal
No cash. A warrant, and only if you raise.
Now: nothing — the founding cohort costs no cash. Later: a continuation you choose, or don’t.
- No cash up front
- No programme fee
- No cost for your place
- The system you run on, included while you’re in
- The system doesn’t stop when the cohort does
- The same venture price a company we build ourselves gets
- Never a hidden cost of the programme
Bundled at both stages. Entry to The Funding Market — it creates your record; it does not buy your grade, your admission, or any investor’s attention. No listing fee, ever, and nothing that depends on a transaction.
Everything on paper first. Before any signature: scope, the one metric, the human support, the instrument, the trigger, what it could dilute to on your own valuation assumptions, the data and governance terms — and an explicit statement that nothing here guarantees you funding.
The test is yours to run. Your warrant, diluted on your own valuation, times your honest odds of reaching it, set against the four gains above. If it doesn’t clear, the instrument is wrong, not you — and founding terms are set precisely so it can clear.
Run programmes, not a company? The system that runs them is licensed — the terms live on the operators page.
What next
A free read, and the whole exchange in writing before you sign.
Run the read first, then take the written exchange on paper — on your numbers, before any signature. Tick the box below if you also want the occasional note on what we learn.
The read is the free part. Ask for it and the read comes back — where the work is stuck, what an outside investor can verify today, and the grade it starts from. Yours either way.
The written exchange, before anything is signed. Every term of the warrant on paper, what it could cost you on your own assumptions — and that nothing guarantees funding. It’s called the value statement, and it comes back worked on your figures.
Get accelerated. Get legible to capital.- Live today. The selection screen on the evidence you connect, every score openable to what it was computed from, and the grade that follows.
- Taking shape. The growth review at full depth across your workstreams, the four support tracks, and investor matching as the market fills.
- What we will never do. Publish a figure we cannot source, sell you an introduction, or move a grade for anyone — including a company we hold a warrant in.
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