2026 · Q3 · Design partner program

Ten partners. Five verticals.

kolm is in design-partner mode through 30 September 2026. We are picking ten teams across five verticals to harden the AI compiler before broad GA. Free Pro tier. Direct Slack with the engineers. Named on the homepage when you give us permission.

If your team is already paying frontier APIs for a workflow that’s 80%+ deterministic, you are exactly who we built kolm for. The application is short.

01 · Partners

The slate, as it stands.

We will only name a partner here once they have a signed artifact in production and they have approved the listing. Until then the slot is held with the vertical and a quiet placeholder. No fabricated logos, no “trusted by” that nobody trusts.

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Healthcare
slot 01 · reserved
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Healthcare
slot 02 · open
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Fintech
slot 03 · reserved
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Fintech
slot 04 · open
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Defense / Gov
slot 05 · reserved
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Defense / Gov
slot 06 · open
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Edge / Robotics
slot 07 · open
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Edge / Robotics
slot 08 · open
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AI-native SaaS
slot 09 · reserved
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AI-native SaaS
slot 10 · open
02 · Verticals

Two slots per vertical.

Five verticals where compile-once, run-locally, sign-everything is load-bearing. We want one buyer-side and one builder-side partner per vertical so the artifact survives both procurement and engineering review.

2 / 2 V-01

Healthcare & clinical

HIPAA, BAA, on-prem inference, evidence chain for the auditor. Triage, summary, coding, intake.

2 / 2 V-02

Fintech & banking

SR 11-7 model risk management, SOC 2, signed audit log, BSA/AML triage, document review.

2 / 2 V-03

Defense & government

Air-gap deploy, FedRAMP path, IL5 considerations, classified intake, structured-output extraction.

2 / 2 V-04

Edge & robotics

NPU / Jetson / mobile execution, sub-100ms latency budget, offline guarantees, signed firmware-style updates.

2 / 2 V-05

AI-native SaaS

Agentic coding, customer support, internal copilots. The teams paying frontier rates for 90%-deterministic features.

03 · The deal

What you get. What we ask for.

We do not pretend this is altruism. You give us your design feedback; we give you the product, the team, and a public win. Both sides should leave better off.

we give

Six things, every partner.

  • Free Pro tier for 12 months: unlimited compiles, 10M-vector recall.
  • Direct Slack channel with the engineers building kolm. No CSM layer.
  • Engineer-on-call for your first three production artifacts. We will pair on the verifier and the eval suite.
  • Roadmap influence. Design partners vote on the next quarter’s shipped features.
  • Logo placement on the homepage and a co-bylined case study, on your timeline, with your edits.
  • Soft pricing lock: if you choose to stay on Pro or upgrade to Business, you keep your design-partner rate for 24 months past GA.
we ask

Three things, in exchange.

  • One real workflow compiled into a .kolm in the first 30 days. Real data, real eval set, real users.
  • One 30-minute call per month with a kolm engineer to review the artifacts you shipped, the bugs you hit, and the things that almost worked.
  • Permission to publish (one case study, one quote, one logo) once the artifact has been in production for 60 days. You see and approve every word before it goes live.
04 · Schedule

The window closes 30 Sept 2026.

Slots fill in the order applications come in. Each vertical can hold up to two design partners; we close that vertical’s slate as soon as both are signed. Reserved slots are conversations already in progress.

2026 May
Program opens. First applications reviewed within 5 business days.
today
2026 Jun – Jul
Onboarding sprints. Each partner pairs with an engineer to compile the first artifact end-to-end.
~10 partners
2026 Aug
First case study cohort. Three approved partners go live on the homepage with named logos.
3 case studies
2026 Sep 30
Program closes. Remaining open slots forfeit. Next intake gates on GA.
close
2026 Q4
SOC 2 Type I audit window opens; design partners get the letter ahead of the public release.
SOC 2