Founding partner program

Become a Helicyn founding partner

Founding partners help shape Helicyn before commercial launch and receive early access, priority onboarding, and preferred launch pricing.

Stage 1 of 3 · Now Pre-commercial Relationship-first
Who this is for

Operators, infrastructure teams, and research partners.

Data center operators

Teams running facilities who want early input on workload/thermal/energy coordination.

AI infrastructure teams

Teams managing GPU fleets across training and inference workloads.

Cloud / platform teams

Teams operating multi-region compute platforms.

Energy & cooling infrastructure teams

Teams responsible for power, cooling, and physical plant constraints.

Research / advisory partners

Researchers interested in the methodology behind the simulator and thesis.

Investors / advisors

People evaluating the thesis, research direction, and staged business model.

What founding partners receive

Early access, direct input, and preferred terms at launch.

Early access

First look as new capabilities ship, ahead of general availability.

Direct product input

A working channel into roadmap and design decisions, not a mailing list.

Priority onboarding

First in line when the platform moves from research prototype to pilot-ready.

Preferred launch pricing

1 year free or permanently discounted pricing when Helicyn launches commercially.

Research visibility

Early visibility into research and simulator methodology as it's published.

Staged business model

Three proposed stages, in order.

Helicyn is pre-commercial today. The stages below describe the intended path, not current production capability.

Stage 1 · Now

Founding Partner

Current stage. Pre-commercial and relationship-first: product feedback and validation with a small number of partners and operators.

  • Pre-commercial
  • Relationship-first
  • Product feedback and validation
  • Not a paid production product yet
Stage 2 · Future

Commercial Launch

Proposed future stage, once the platform is production-ready.

  • Annual enterprise SaaS/platform subscription
  • Production-ready platform
  • Coordinates workloads, energy, cooling, and infrastructure
Stage 3 · Future

Performance-Based Pricing

Proposed future stage, once savings are verified.

  • Customer keeps most of the verified savings
  • Helicyn receives an agreed percentage of verified savings
Illustrative example · future · only after verified savings $10.0M saved/yr × 15% agreement = $1.5M to Helicyn
Incentive alignment

Helicyn is intended to win only when customers measurably save.

The proposed performance-based stage is designed so Helicyn earns meaningfully only when it generates verified savings in energy, carbon, or cost -- not for unproven promises. Performance pricing requires verification before it applies; this avoids charging customers purely on projected or modeled numbers.

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