Week 0 · Stage 0
Thirty-minute intro call, fit check against Assure and the lab, intake questionnaire.
Proceed or part as friends; one-page summary.
Founder & partner programme · Canada
Six stages. Five weeks to a decision. Zero financial drama.
The process is designed so that stopping is normal. Stage 0 costs a call. Stage 2 costs us compute, not you. Nothing is signed until there is evidence in front of both teams.
Week 1 · Stage 1
Mutual NDA, founder-fit scorecard, sixty-minute architecture review, one hypothesis defined.
≥70 proceeds, 55–69 with named conditions, <55 stops.
Weeks 2–5 · Stage 2
Thirty-day joint proof sprint on the DGX Dev Pod: integration, lab evaluations, buyer demo.
Verified trace ledger, recorded demo, written retrospective.
Weeks 6–7 · Stage 3
Commercial model, term sheet, IP and governance.
Executed agreement or shared 90-day plan.
Days 60–150 · Stage 4
Joint squad, hardening, security review, first design partners.
Production-grade MVP in commercial pilots.
Months 5–9 · Stage 5
Joint go-to-market, public-sector bids, investor activation.
Commercial scaling and seed co-investment.
Score it honestly, before you spend a month.
Scored 1–5 across ten weighted dimensions. 70 proceeds, 55–69 proceeds with conditions, below 55 does not.
60 Proceed with named conditions.
Indicative only. The real scorecard is completed together at Stage 1.
The first call costs thirty minutes.
No deck, no NDA to read it. Five bullets and a conversation.