Roadmap & the Ask
Entity first. Then leverage. The window is open now.
Confidential · June 2026. The ask figure is an illustrative placeholder pending finalization by Richard + counsel.
The roadmap
| Phase | What ships |
|---|---|
| Now · this weekend | Stand up the entity — the company, the team, the brand. The structure exists before any partner conversation. |
| Near-term | Complete the wheel — fold in the SME repository; spec the engine↔standard interface; scope the first design-partner account. |
| Proof gate | First account, end to end — assess → engine runs → attest. Modeled becomes measured; the architecture is proven on a real estate. |
| Then | License — Kelly first — license the process, product, and brand through MCG Kelly Services as the first channel into enterprise accounts. |
| Horizon | Enterprise & Microsoft — enterprise licensing at scale, and the Microsoft play the team is positioned to open. |
The first ninety days
- Form the entity — the company, founding roles, cap structure. The entity exists before any Kelly conversation.
- Lock team + brand — confirm the bench (CTO, CSO, full-stack); lock the brand (Aperture = the govrn.ai engine; verifier-green).
- Fold in the SME repository — the combined enterprise expertise that completes the wheel and hardens the backing.
- Spec the evidence interface — the typed, versioned, no-payload contract between engine and standard.
- Scope the first design-partner account — the proof gate that turns modeled into measured.
- Land account two — so "proven" means more than tenant-zero; the strongest credibility move there is.
Connector milestone (target — intended, not committed)
Target: first live connector against a real API — ~90 days post-raise (by end of Q3 2026). The connectors are built but have never run live; this is the dated milestone that turns modeled into measured. Sequencing: stand up the Anthropic / OpenAI admin APIs first — the highest-signal, lowest-friction surfaces — then expand to breadth across additional providers and enterprise platforms. This target is explicitly dependent on closing the raise and securing the first design-partner account; the date moves with both.
The ask
$[ amount ] (illustrative — to be set)
To stand up the entity, retain the founding bench, harden the engine to enterprise grade, and land the first design-partner accounts — the work that turns a proven architecture into a licensable, category-defining standard.
Use of funds (illustrative)
| illustrative | |
|---|---|
| Team / founding bench retention | — |
| Engine hardening (multi-tenant, auth, audit, per-tenant pricing) | — |
| First design-partner accounts + delivery | — |
| Standard + certification build-out | — |
Use of funds and terms to be finalized with Richard + counsel.
The close
A defensible standard, a working engine, an enterprise team with Microsoft access, and a regulatory clock the buyer can't stop. We're building the thing every enterprise AI program will be measured against — and licensing it to the people who need it. This is the round that builds it.