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An early stage venture firm. We find builders before anyone else will, and back them once they are ready.

The programme, SPRINT, is how we find them: thirty days in which ambitious people form teams, find a real problem and ship a product in public. It is not the business. It is the sourcing engine for the business.

Four phases. Discover, days 1–5: teams form, talk to five real users each and commit to one problem. Validate, days 6–10: demand is proven with a landing page or waitlist and ten more interviews. Build, days 11–25: an MVP sprint. Launch, days 26–30: a real public launch, first users, then Demo Day.

There are public checkpoints on days 10, 15 and 20, where every team demos to every other team, and a live pitch on day 30.

No. Nobody arrives with an idea, and that is deliberate. Ideas brought from outside are usually untested affection.

Every team finds its problem by talking to real people in the first days, and commits to one by day five. No pivots after that.

Thirty consecutive days, with fixed dates that do not move: checkpoints on days 10, 15 and 20, the launch on day 26 and Demo Day on day 30.

The pace is built for people who can make it the main thing for a month. If you cannot be there on day twenty, apply to a later batch instead.

Both. Year one plans four online batches and two residential ones.

A team, a product launched in public, its first users and, for some teams, a first attempt at revenue. Then a live pitch in front of mentors, alumni, investors and an audience.

Not a certificate. The evidence is the product.

No. Ambition is the qualifier. One of the three routes into a batch is for people with no technical background who build anyway, with AI tooling and with teammates.

AI tooling is how a non-technical builder ships in fourteen days. It is not the identity of the programme, and it is not a substitute for doing the work.

Because the skill is rarely what is missing. Most capable engineers have never turned it into a product, a team or a launch. The programme is thirty days of doing exactly that, under real pressure, with nowhere to hide.

Yes. A team that already exists enters intact, skips matching and goes straight to problem validation.

Each batch is 24 builders in six teams of four. Builders who arrive alone are matched into teams, and the teams are announced on day one.

People who want a certificate, people who want to learn passively, and people who want capital without building. Those are downstream of us.

One form, then one interview, scored against one shared rubric for every applicant. We look for what you have built and what you have done without being asked.

We accept thirty to forty people, never exactly twenty-four, because not everyone confirms. Seats are confirmed by payment, not by acceptance.

Because a free programme fills with people who will not be there on day twenty. Payment is the cheapest available proxy for commitment, and completion rate is what decides whether a batch has anything to show.

The price is set low enough that no serious builder is excluded, and high enough that no casual one enrols.

The seat price for C23-01 has not been published yet. The payment link ships with your acceptance, so you see the amount before you are asked to pay anything.

A payment link ships with the acceptance. You have 48 to 72 hours to confirm the seat. A seat that lapses is offered to the next person on a ranked waitlist.

There is a hard cutoff five days before day one. After that, the batch is set.

It is not written yet, and we would rather say that than imply one. The refund terms are being drafted as part of the participant terms.

The date has not been published yet. When it is, it will be a hard deadline, not a soft one that gets extended.

It gets disclosed, not hidden. Saying what happened, including when it failed, is one of the rules the firm runs on.

You will see it coming. The checkpoints on days 15 and 20 exist so that stalling becomes visible early, and mentor hours go to the teams that are struggling, not shared out evenly for fairness.

No. Founders keep their company, their equity and their decisions. If we invest later, it is as a backer, on terms agreed then, never as an owner of the idea.

Possibly, and not automatically. We back the strongest teams, first. Early on those cheques are personal money; a fund comes later, sized to the record the batches build.

Nobody is promised capital for taking part. What the programme promises is the thirty days.

Demo Day puts every team in front of mentors, alumni, investors and an audience, and gives investors their first look at teams nobody else has seen.

After it, you join the alumni, and we open referrals into incubators so the strongest teams have somewhere to go next that is not only us.

Mentors for C23-01 are being confirmed now. They will be named on the site once they have agreed, not before.