01
Engineering team
Senior engineers who have shipped production AI products. Architecture review, first build, and hiring the venture's own team when the time comes.
How the Studio Works
Not a fund. Not an accelerator. The operating half of your founding team.
A fund writes a check. An accelerator runs a program. A studio shows up with people, systems, and a plan, and stays.
What the AGIS half does.
02
Tech stack
A standard, battle tested platform for auth, data, model orchestration, observability, and deployment. Founders start building product on day one, not infrastructure.
03
Go-to-market
Positioning, pricing, the first channel, and the launch plan. We have done it six times and counting.
04
Connections
Early customers, design partners, advisors, and the follow-on investors who back our ventures.
05
Compliance
SOC 2 readiness from the start, HIPAA where the vertical requires it, and data handling policies that hold up in an enterprise procurement review.
06
Bookkeeping and taxes
Books, tax filings, and financial reporting handled by tallybooks.ai, our own venture. Founders never open a spreadsheet for the back office.
The First Twelve Months
What a typical year looks like.
Months 0 to 2
Validation
Customer discovery with the founder. Pricing tests. Go or no-go decision.
Months 2 to 5
First build
AGIS engineering ships the first product on the standard stack. Design partners onboard.
Months 5 to 8
Launch
Public launch on moatlycrew.com. First paying customers. Positioning locked.
Months 8 to 11
Team
First venture-specific hires. Handover from the shared team begins.
Month 12
Spin-out ready
Dedicated team, independent infrastructure, seed round on the founder's terms.
[Placeholder quote from a venture lead about working with the studio.]