Build your startup with agents doing the work.

Yes, if you are between “I have an idea” and “I have early revenue.” The Agentic Track is one path for every stage. We generate your Playbook from where you actually are, so a pre-product solo founder and a founder with three paying customers sit in the same cohort and work on different things. If you already have a fundable product and a team, look at the FI Venture Network instead.

No. Agents, AI Assist, and Frank cover a lot of what a first technical hire used to do at this stage. Many recent graduates built their first product alone. You will still need to find customers and sell, and the program will make you.

Your personalized sequence of Sprints. When you join, we ask about your stage, industry, team, traction, and goals, then build a Playbook with the Sprints you need, at the depth you need, in the order that makes sense. After each Feedback Session the Playbook re-plans based on mentor ratings and what changed in your company. Sprints are the units. Epic Sprints are the larger custom ones assigned after the Idea Review in Session 6.

The schedule is the spine every founder shares: 10 sessions and Demo Day. Your Playbook is the flesh on it. Two founders in the same cohort attend the same sessions and work on different deliverables between them.

It is a voice agent. You speak, it listens, it interrupts and pushes back like a partner would, and it scores you. You can choose which investor persona you face. It produces a transcript with your weak spots marked. It is not a replacement for mentors; it is how you arrive at mentor feedback and Demo Day already practiced.

Frank is the always-on agent that comes with the program. Frank knows the program (every Sprint, deliverable, deadline, and mentor) and, once you connect your tools, your company (email, calendar, CRM, project boards, social accounts). Ask Frank anything in plain language. Frank is called Frank because Frank is frank.

AI Assist on every deliverable, Frank, and FI's startup agents for Market Research, Customer Outreach, 24/7 Startup Advice, and Fundraising. All included in the entrance fee. No extra AI subscription required.

Yes. Many founders use Claude, ChatGPT, Replit, and others alongside the FI agents. The difference is that ours already know your Playbook and your deliverables.

Plan on 15 to 20 hours a week. Sessions are weekly. Deliverables are due every week. The final two weeks before Demo Day are heavier. Graduates consistently say the time pressure is what makes the program work, and that the last stretch is intense. If you cannot commit the hours, wait for a later cohort.

Fewer than 40 percent of accepted founders graduate. You must hit a minimum mentor rating and form an investment-friendly entity (for example, a Delaware C-Corp) to graduate. This is a feature. Investors know an FI graduate finished something hard.

Session 11. A five minute pitch and a live product demo to angel investors and VCs. Every FI cohort ends with a real Demo Day. Top performers are reviewed for Founder Capital's $25,000 first checks and introduced through the FI Venture Network.

The entrance fee is between $999 and $1,649 USD depending on your region and whether you apply by the early deadline. It is fully refundable until the program starts and 75 percent refundable if you drop out before Session 3 (the Validation session); after that, your fee can be applied to the next cohort. Enrolled founders get one FI bootcamp free and 50 percent off others.

Founders pledge 2.5 percent of future equity to the Equity Collective as a warrant, about two-thirds of the way through the program (not at enrollment). It is split 0.5 percent to mentors, 1 percent to local leaders, and 1 percent to FI. It activates only above an outside-capital threshold, carries no board seat or voting rights, is not a revenue share, and dissolves if the company fails. Sixty percent of returns go back to the local ecosystem that helped you.

Both, depending on the chapter. Most programs are hybrid: online Feedback Sessions with required in-person components. Some cohorts, including the Silicon Valley AI cohort, include in-person weeks. Check your city's schedule.

Lifetime alumni access: the 40,000+ mentor and investor network, FI Fundraising (targets a lead investor within six months), the FI Venture Network, Founder Lab advisory programs, private alumni lists, $2.5M+ in partner discounts, and FounderX. Frank and every agent stay with you after graduation.