The Lorendix Founders Hub
Production-standard engineering at an early-stage budget
For founders whose product is the platform, and who need it built properly before there is funding to pay standard rates.
Who it is for
Founders where technology carries the vision
If technology drives the vision, the process or the service, the Hub applies. Where it is a supporting tool, a standard engagement fits better and we will say so.
In practice that means
- Founders building a digital product as the core of the business
- Founders delivering services online, where the platform is the service
- Founders whose operating model only works if the technology works
- Early-stage businesses, pre-revenue or early revenue, with defined commercial intent
Our position
A commercial position rather than a charitable one. The founders building today are the enterprises of tomorrow, and we would rather be there from the first line of code.
The problem we see most often
A prototype is not a product
A founder can now produce a working prototype faster than at any point in history. What has not changed is the distance between a prototype and a product.
We are repeatedly brought into systems that
- Work in a demonstration and fail under real use
- Have no meaningful authentication or access model
- Hold customer data without isolation, encryption or an audit trail
- Cannot be deployed twice the same way
- Produce no logs, so nobody can say why it broke
- Cannot be safely extended, because nobody can explain how it works
The founder is rarely at fault. AI builds what it is asked for, and it will not volunteer that the result is unsafe for paying customers.
What founders receive
From vision to production
Five stages, at the same engineering standard as our enterprise work. Scope and commercial shape change, quality does not.
Vision scoping
We start with the business, not the code. What is being built, for whom, what has to be true commercially, and where technology genuinely sits.
Technical foundation
Architecture, data model, authentication and access control, environments and deployment. The decisions expensive to reverse later.
Build or rescue
Either a first production build, or the hardening and completion of what already exists, including AI-assisted prototypes.
Production readiness
Security, observability, backups and CI/CD. What separates a demonstration from something customers and investors can rely on.
Scale and support
Continued engineering as the product finds its market, at a pace matched to the funding position.
Premium standard, right-sized fee
The same engineering standard as our enterprise clients. Scope and commercial shape change; quality does not.
Scoped to what is needed
If the build is smaller than expected, we say so. If an off-the-shelf product solves it, we say that too.
Ownership stays with the founder
Code, infrastructure and accounts belong to the business from day one. No lock-in, no dependency by design.
We explain what good looks like
Founders finish able to brief a future team or answer technical due diligence without us in the room.
How the Hub works commercially
Stated openly, because a programme without limits is not a programme
Three things govern how a Hub engagement is priced and how it ends. Founders know the shape before they enquire.
- Structure
- A fixed-price foundation engagement covers scoping, architecture and the first production build. Continued engineering then runs at a reduced monthly rate against defined deliverables.
- Places
- A limited number of concurrent engagements, reviewed each quarter. Where the Hub is full we say so, and indicate when a place is expected to open.
- Graduation
- Hub terms hold for the agreed initial term, then move to standard terms at the end of it or on an institutional funding round, whichever comes first.
We are backing these businesses, not subsidising them. That distinction is what makes the Hub sustainable, and what makes it worth having.
Tell us what you are building
If technology carries the vision, we would like to hear about it. We will be specific about what it would take.