The AI-native company foundry

We don't fund companies. We build them.

Catalyst is a venture studio for builders with conviction. You start at the frontier — capital, a founding team, and a 100+ AI-agent workforce on day one — instead of losing your first 18 months to plumbing.

For repeat founders For domain experts (EIRs) For institutional LPs
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Build pipeline — "Project Meridian"
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Research Agent4 theses ranked · ✓
Engineering AgentMVP · 1,284 commits
GTM Agent42 interviews · scoring
Finance Agentmodel reconciled · ✓
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Median studio time to Series A, vs. ~56 for traditional startups
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Of studio-backed ventures reach seed funding, vs. ~42%
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Co-ownership Catalyst earns by building, not just funding
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Specialized AI agents working inside every company build
Benchmarks from venture-studio industry research (InNiches 2024; Bundl; Esinli Capital). Apply to studio-built companies at pre-seed→Series A. Figures are directional, not audited — Catalyst models its own returns bottom-up and conservatively.
Why exceptional founders still lose 18 months

The bottleneck was never money. It was time.

Capital has been abundant for a decade. Yet the most capable builders alive still spend their first year and a half on work that has nothing to do with their product — incorporation, hiring, payroll, contracts, fundraising decks, back-office, dashboards. The idea waits while the plumbing gets built, badly, from scratch, for the thousandth time.

We think that's a waste of rare talent. So we built the plumbing once — and put an AI workforce behind it. A founder who joins Catalyst skips the drag and starts at the frontier.

Hiring & recruiting Legal & incorporation Finance & back office GTM & first customers Fundraising ops

One process. From conviction to company.

Click a stage — inputs, gates, owners, agents
The engine — Catalyst OS

Agents execute. Humans decide.

Catalyst OS orchestrates a workforce of specialized agents across the entire build line. Senior partners set direction and own every decision-gate; agents do the undifferentiated execution — so the marginal cost of starting a company falls toward zero, and every build trains the next.

Work split per company build
Agents — execution 72%
Humans 28%
Build & product
Engineering Agent
ships MVP · code · infra
Design Agent
product UI · brand system
Research Agent
theses · market maps
Go-to-market & ops
GTM Agent
interviews · pipeline
Finance Agent
model · cap table
Recruiting Agent
sources founding team
Who we build with
For founders & EIRs

Start at the frontier.

For repeat founders and deep domain experts who want to build, not administrate.

What you get
  • Capital, a founding team, and a 100+ agent workforce on day one
  • The studio's shared eng, design, GTM, finance & legal spine
  • ~50–60% lower cash-to-PMF; you focus only on the irreplaceable
What you give up
  • Shared ownership — the studio co-owns 30–50%, earned by building with you
  • A defined process with real decision-gates, not total solo autonomy
Become an EIR
For institutional LPs

A manufacturing process with venture upside.

A two-entity studio + fund built for ownership, capital efficiency, and durability.

Return logic
  • Higher entry ownership (30–50%) at ~2.5× the capital efficiency of priced rounds
  • Higher Series-A conversion via an instrumented, gated build process
  • Recurring revenue (services + OS SaaS) funds the studio — returns are upside, not survival
What to underwrite
  • Studio economics & attribution — addressed via transparent, two-entity reporting
  • Agent-reliability ramp — mitigated by human-in-the-loop at every gate
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What the studio produces

Every build leaves an evidence trail.

Standardized artifacts at each gate
THESIS / Project Meridianv2
Market$14B
Why nowAI cost ▼
Conviction8.4/10
Discover

Thesis memo

The case for building — market, why-now, wedge, and a scored conviction call.

VALIDATION SCORECARDGATE 2
Demand 88
Willingness-to-pay 64
Reachability 79
Validate

Validation scorecard

Customer signal quantified before a line of code — the kill-or-build gate.

MVP / build #0418● live
1,284 commits14 days
Build

MVP snapshot

A working product in weeks, shipped by the engineering & design agents.

GTM DASHBOARDwk 6
Pipeline42 → 9
Design partners3 signed
MRR$11.4k
Launch

GTM & revenue log

First customers and revenue, tracked live — the proof PMF is in reach.

We're not here to fund the future. We're here to manufacture it.