The best companies nobody backed are still out there.

An accelerator for undervalued outliers in B2B software. Founders keep control, get a stipend and a fractional expert bench, and spend six months building evidence, before investors are asked for capital.

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The inefficiency

The overwhelming majority of pitches are declined. Not because the businesses are bad.

Capital is scarce and investors chase the safest bets. What's left is a large, mostly unworked market of companies that were never properly looked at.

It stays unworked for a structural reason: at this stage, the cost of diligencing a company exceeds the cheque you'd write into it. So nobody does it systematically.

That cost is the thing we removed. Everything else follows from it.

What we're looking for now

Four places we can help more than most.

We point at our own advantages first. The sectors where our networks, our proof points and our diligence bench actually shorten the odds for a founder.

Public sector

Technology and services sold into government. We understand the procurement process, the timescales and where deals stall — and we've been through it ourselves.

Defensible AI

Two halves of the same idea — AI that can be proven, and AI that can be protected.

Trust and assurance. Bias testing, evaluation and governance tooling for AI that makes decisions about people — increasingly non-negotiable for anyone selling it.

Patentable deep tech. IP-first, novel and defensible, in software and AI. We have the bench to diligence it properly.

EdTech

Sits squarely across our contact books, which means warm introductions rather than cold ones. If you are selling into education, we probably know the room.

Operational efficiency

Software that takes the friction out of a specialist profession — legal and its neighbours especially. Unglamorous, deeply useful, and usually underbuilt.

These are interests, not limits. A few sectors aside, we'll consider most things.

The package

Nobody has put this combination together before. Fai is why we can.

The stipend

A flat stipend on entry, the same for everyone, with nothing to negotiate. It buys the time to build rather than fundraise.

An expert bench

One day a month from a fractional team; technology, business development and more. Your own non-exec bench, without the cap table cost.

Access to funding

A curated angel cohort on standard, cheap paper, and a position already built for the round that comes after.

Fai, underneath it

Every company gets an exclusive commercial licence to Fai, free. Market evidence, competitor position and investor narrative, working continuously, not once.

Founders keep control

A single fixed minority position, agreed once on entry and never revisited. Founders retain a clear majority throughout and run their own company.

Evidence before the ask

Six months of building on stipend and platform first. By month six there's a track record to review, not a pitch to believe.

The unfair advantage

Fai isn't the pitch. It's the reason the numbers work.

Fai is the platform behind every company in the cohort; the commercialisation tool, the investor-positioning engine, and the thing that makes diligence cheap enough to do at this stage at all.

It runs quietly in the background: a founder's buddy and back office rather than a product they have to manage. Nobody joins us for the software, but every one of them wins because of it.

They join for the package. Fai is the reason the package can exist at all.

For angels and partners

We're building this in the open, with people whose judgement we trust.

The model is written, the platform exists, and the first cohort is forming. If you're an interested investor, or you'd simply like to watch it take shape, ask for the deck and we'll come back to you.