The Lorendix Founders Hub
Production-quality engineering on an early-stage budget
For founders whose product is the platform, and who need it built properly before they have the funding to pay standard rates.
Who it is for
Founders whose vision depends on technology
The Hub is for businesses where technology drives the vision, the process or the service. If technology only supports your business, a standard engagement is a better fit, and we will tell you so.
In practice, this means
- Founders building a digital product at the core of the business
- Founders delivering services online, where the platform is the service
- Founders whose business model only works if the technology works
- Early-stage businesses, before revenue or with early revenue, and a clear commercial plan
Our position
This is a commercial decision, not charity. The founders building today will run the larger businesses of tomorrow, and we want to work with them from the first line of code.
The problem we see most often
A prototype is not a product
Founders can now build a working prototype faster than ever before. However, the gap between a prototype and a real product is as large as it has always been.
We are often asked to take over systems that
- Work in a demonstration but fail when real customers use them
- Have no proper sign-in or access controls
- Store customer data without separation, encryption or an audit trail
- Cannot be deployed the same way twice
- Produce no logs, so nobody can tell why they failed
- Cannot be safely extended, because nobody can explain how they work
This is rarely the founder’s fault. AI tools build what they are asked to build, and they will not warn you that the result is not safe for paying customers.
What founders receive
From vision to production
The work follows five stages, to the same engineering standard as our work for larger clients. The scope and the fee change, but the quality does not.
Scoping the vision
We start with the business, not the code. We agree what is being built and for whom, what needs to be true commercially, and where technology really fits.
Technical foundations
We set up the architecture, data model, sign-in and access control, environments and deployment. These are the decisions that are expensive to change later.
Build or rescue
We either build the first production version, or strengthen and complete what already exists, including prototypes built with AI.
Ready for production
We add security, monitoring, backups and automated deployment. This is what turns a demonstration into something customers and investors can rely on.
Growth and support
We continue the engineering work as the product finds its market, at a pace that matches the funding available.
High standard, fair fee
The same engineering standard as our larger clients. The scope and the fee change, but the quality does not.
Only what is needed
If the build is smaller than you expected, we will tell you. If an existing product solves the problem, we will tell you that too.
The founder owns everything
The code, infrastructure and accounts belong to the business from the first day. There is no lock-in and no dependency on us.
We explain what good looks like
By the end, founders can brief a future team or answer technical due diligence questions without us in the room.
How the Hub works commercially
Clear terms from the start
Three things determine how a Hub engagement is priced and how it ends. Founders know these terms before they get in touch.
- Structure
- A fixed-price foundation engagement covers scoping, architecture and the first production build. After that, further engineering is charged at a reduced monthly rate against agreed deliverables.
- Places
- We take on a limited number of Hub engagements at a time, and we review this every quarter. If the Hub is full, we will tell you and let you know when we expect a place to open.
- Moving on
- Hub terms apply for the agreed initial period. They move to standard terms at the end of that period, or when the business raises an institutional funding round, whichever comes first.
We are investing in these businesses, not subsidising them. That is what makes the Hub sustainable, and what makes it worth joining.
Tell us what you are building
If technology is central to your vision, we would like to hear about it. We will be specific about what it would take.