Product credits
Up to $25k across Nokuva, Tavoc, and Foltrac for 12 months — enough to design, build, and deploy a real product without the tooling line item.
Startup Program
Frontier tooling, priced for the pre-revenue stage.
Credits across Nokuva, Tavoc, and Foltrac, direct access to our engineers, and the efficiency research that keeps your inference bill from deciding your runway.
Term sheet ❯Startup Program
No equity. No lock-in. Reviewed by humans.
- $25k
- in product credits over 12 months
- 12 mo
- of program benefits per batch
- 1:1
- architecture sessions with our engineers
- 0%
- equity taken — it's a program, not a fund
What's included
Built to extend runway, not decorate a deck.
Efficiency office hours
Monthly sessions with our efficiency researchers. Bring your inference bill; leave with a distillation or context-compression plan.
Architecture reviews
1:1 sessions with the engineers who built our protocols, reviewing your agent architecture before the expensive mistakes are load-bearing.
Early access
New protocol drafts, product betas, and dataset releases land in the program cohort before they're public.
Founder community
A private channel of program founders building AI-native products, plus quarterly cohort calls with the LegionEdge team.
Launch support
Graduating products get a feature in our newsletter and customer-story treatment on this site — real distribution, not a logo wall.
How the program works
A year in the program, end to end.
Apply
Tell us what you're building and where AI-native tooling fits. Applications take fifteen minutes and are reviewed by a human — usually within a week.
Onboard
Accepted teams get credits provisioned, a kickoff architecture session, and an invite to the founder community — all in the first week.
Build
Twelve months of credits, office hours, and early access while you ship. We check in quarterly; otherwise we stay out of your way.
Graduate
At the end of the batch, teams move to standard pricing with a founder discount — and the ones with a story to tell get the launch feature.
Who it's for
The bar, in plain terms.
- Pre-seed to Series A, under $5M raised
- Fewer than 20 people on the team
- Building a product where AI is core, not a feature checkbox
- Not a previous participant in the program
Common questions
Do you take equity or ask for anything in return?
No equity, no warrants, no exclusivity. We ask for honest product feedback and, if things go well, permission to tell your story.
Can we apply if we already use one of your products?
Yes. Existing self-serve customers who meet the criteria are welcome — credits apply to your current workspace.
What happens when the 12 months end?
You move to standard pricing with a permanent founder discount. There's no cliff designed to trap you; most graduates scale down before they scale up.
We're a solo founder. Is that too early?
No — several of our strongest cohort members were solo at application time. The bar is a real product direction, not headcount.
Apply now
Apply to the Startup Program.
Tell us about your company and what you're building. We review every application and respond within a week.
- No equity, no warrants
- Human-reviewed in a week
- Free to apply
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