Founding Partner Program · 2026 Selection Open

Three partners.
Permanent terms.
Direct founder access.

Lifetime price lock. Custom connector priority. Roadmap influence.

We are selecting three Founding Partners for 2026 — organizations with real legacy + cloud governance pain who want to ship a working closed-loop revoke in 30 days, not 30 months.

Founding Partners get terms we're not offering to anyone else in 2026: lifetime price lock at Founding Partner rates, custom connector development priority, direct roadmap influence, founder-led implementation, and eligibility for reference status, with your permission and on your schedule.

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What Founding Partners Get

Terms we're not offering
to anyone else in 2026.

Founding Partners aren't beta testers. They're the architects of how STRATUS shows up at every future customer. The terms reflect that.

01 · Pricing

Lifetime price lock at Founding Partner rates.

Whatever pricing tier we land on at signing, you pay that rate for as long as you're a STRATUS customer. No annual increases. No contract-renewal squeeze. The discount we extend in 2026 is permanent.

We're betting that if you're still on STRATUS in 2030, the platform is delivering enough value that the original pricing is the smallest part of the relationship. Lock it in.

02 · Roadmap

Custom connector priority. Direct roadmap voice.

The legacy system you can't get a connector for elsewhere — your in-house IBM i workload, that COBOL-era HR system, that mainframe that ran your agency's last fifteen years — we build the connector for you, prioritized in the same sprint as our core roadmap.

Founding Partners hold a permanent seat on the STRATUS roadmap review. Quarterly. With the founder. In writing.

03 · Implementation

Founder-led, white-glove rollout.

Founder-led architecture and implementation. Sirisha personally architects your deployment, runs the kickoff, owns the issues that come up, and is on the implementation channel approved by your organization.

This is not a "support tier." It's the actual person whose name is on the product, in the room, with you, until you're in production.

04 · Reference

Eligible for reference status, with your permission.

Your logo on the homepage, on the way the platform gets sold, in every analyst conversation. You shaped what STRATUS became — your story is part of the brand.

Reference calls go to you (with your permission, on your schedule). Future customer wins acknowledge you.

Selection Criteria

Three slots · Applications close Q2 2026.
Not for everyone.

We're being deliberate about Founding Partner selection. The right three set the trajectory for the next thousand customers. Here's the honest fit profile.

You're a strong fit if…

You have real, complex governance pain — and a 30-day decision window.

  • You're a state agency, regional bank, regional health system, or mid-market enterprise with mixed legacy + cloud
  • You can name the systems that don't have proper offboarding right now (PeopleSoft? Oracle EBS? An in-house custom app?)
  • Your security team will not approve inbound firewall openings
  • You can authorize a limited 30-day POC while the broader procurement path is evaluated in parallel
  • You prefer direct founder-led implementation over a standard Tier 2 support queue
  • You want a real voice in the roadmap, not a feature-request queue
You're probably not a fit if…

You need an established category leader for board, audit, or procurement.

  • You need a vendor with an existing FedRAMP High ATO before you can buy
  • You have 50,000+ identities and a 30-person IAM team that requires enterprise-suite tooling on day one
  • Your procurement scoring rubric weighs vendor revenue size in the top three criteria
  • Your board or audit committee requires Magic Quadrant Leader status before approving a pilot
  • You're comfortable paying enterprise-suite pricing for a large vendor ecosystem, sales organization, and annual user conference
  • You're looking for a standard vendor relationship rather than a founding-partner engagement

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The Path · 30 Days

Founding Partner POC.
From kickoff to revoke.

If we can't show a closed-loop revoke in 30 days, you don't move forward. That's the deal.

Phase 01
Days 1–7

Connect

Founding Partner agreement signed. Founder runs kickoff. HCG deployed inside your VPC (pending your network configuration). Outbound mTLS tunnel established. Identity sources connected.

Phase 02
Days 8–14

Detect

Identity normalization across legacy + cloud. Ghost Account discovery surfaces every terminated user with live access across your connected systems. Toxic Access report delivered.

Phase 03
Days 15–21

Simulate

Workflow approvals validated. Decision paths tested. Dry-run revoke executes the full chain — without firing the kill switch yet.

Phase 04
Days 22–30

Revoke

First live closed-loop revoke on a real production target. Evidence Pack signed, hash-chained, locked into S3 Compliance Mode.

2 of 3 slots remaining.
Open until filled.

If you read this far and the fit profile sounds like you, send a note. We'll respond within one business day and get a 30-Day Proof of Revoke scoping call on the calendar within the week.

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