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Founding design-partner cohort

Prove the foundation against your real product.

The first cohort is for B2B SaaS teams ready to validate the complete Foundation workflow, deploy into their own AWS account, and shape the operating model before a broader release.

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We first confirm fit, dependencies, and the AWS path. Contact details are not required to use the Solution Builder.

01 / Fit before commitment

The right pilot has a real technical owner and a real adoption decision.

A clear “not yet” is more useful than forcing the wrong company into a pilot. We review readiness before discussing payment.

Strong fit

Enterprise pressure is real, but ownership still matters.

  • You are building a seed–Series A B2B SaaS product.
  • Enterprise requirements are arriving before your platform team is ready.
  • Your team wants source ownership and customer-cloud deployment.
  • You can allocate an engineer to test the reference workflow in AWS.

Not a fit yet

The requested operating model is outside this cohort.

  • You need a fully managed, generally available Cloud service today.
  • You need equal AWS and GCP production support immediately.
  • You only want a commodity API with no integration work.
  • You cannot validate the deployment path in a non-production environment.

02 / Working pilot

Four outcomes, one shared definition of done.

Progress is measured by working product and deployment behaviour—not presentation milestones.
  1. 01

    Architecture baseline

    Confirm the stack, AWS environment, responsibility boundaries, evidence needs, and acceptance criteria.

  2. 02

    Reference workflow

    Create a company, invite a user, assign a role, check an entitlement, send a notification, and inspect the audit trail.

  3. 03

    Customer-cloud deployment

    Run the supported AWS path from your environment without giving Launch Rail possession of cloud credentials.

  4. 04

    Handoff and decision

    Review failures, remediation, support load, compatibility, ownership, and the final license decision.

03 / Shared effort

We bring a product system. You bring the environment that must trust it.

Launch Rail includes

Foundation, deployment path, and ownership handoff.

  • Enterprise Foundation blueprint and module composition
  • Guided local evaluation and one customer-owned AWS path
  • Architecture, data-flow, and shared-responsibility review
  • Joint remediation of documented golden-path blockers
  • Pilot findings, compatibility notes, and ownership handoff

Partner commitments

Access, feedback, and a decision owner.

  • Provide an engineering owner for the local and AWS workflows
  • Use a non-production AWS environment and customer-controlled credentials
  • Share setup time, failures, support load, and purchase objections
  • Join focused working sessions and confirm the acceptance result
  • Approve any public proof separately in writing

Plain-language terms

No ambiguity hidden behind the pilot label.

The proposal remains the source of truth for the exact environment, acceptance steps, support boundary, and commercial decision.

What counts as operational?
The complete documented reference workflow runs in the agreed environment and the AWS deployment completes without Launch Rail taking possession of customer credentials.
What happens when something fails?
Both teams follow the documented recovery path and jointly remediate an in-scope blocker before a refund decision.
Does the pilot include the final license?
No. The pilot fee is credited if the customer proceeds with the separately quoted perpetual source license.
Can Launch Rail publish our name or results?
Only after separate written consent identifying exactly what may be published. Participation itself is not consent.
First review

Start with architecture, not a sales script.

We will confirm whether your stack, cloud path, and launch window match the cohort before discussing a commitment.

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