--- title: "The Founding Beta" canonical_url: https://auteurintelligence.com/founding-beta/ description: "The Auteur Intelligence™ Founding Beta: who it is for, what it includes, what it costs, and how to apply in ten minutes with no uploads." --- # The Founding Beta [Open the application questionnaire →](https://auteurintelligence.com/founding-beta/apply/) Ten minutes. No uploads. Lands directly in our inbox. **Every auteur needs a studio.** Work alongside us on a real project while the products finish. This is an application to join. --- ## What the beta actually is - **A cloud-based studio account.** Founding members get a hosted Auteur account: your projects, memory, and approval gates live in your workspace, reachable from the browser, your harness, and the deck. - **Hands-on onboarding.** We onboard founding members by hand, on a real project, rather than dropping you into a self-serve signup. The cohorts are small on purpose. - **You bring your own providers.** Auteur runs the models and subscriptions you already hold. Model-provider accounts and any local hardware a lane needs are prerequisites you supply; Auteur does not resell model access. - **Founding seats are paid, limited, and priced to reward the early.** This is a limited-time founding offer: we are accepting only the first 100 beta members. Most founding seats land between $25 and $300 per month depending on track and scope, with exact terms agreed with each member when a seat is offered, and founding members keep their monthly rate. Prices rise after the founding window closes; your rate does not. Local and enterprise deployments are case by case. There is no checkout anywhere; nothing is charged before a conversation. - **A founding seat includes the Skool.** Every founding member receives a subscription to [our Skool community](https://www.skool.com/auteur-intelligence-5701): direct access to the program’s founder, a writer, director, and producer of 25 years with theatrical narrative and documentary credits and real on-set production experience, plus courses on the product taught by the founder himself and the dedicated team bringing Auteur Intelligence™ into the world. Learn the latest AI and real-world hybrid production workflows from someone who ships both. - **Access is scoped to your work.** The application asks what you intend to build. Some members get the full studio; others start with the lanes their project actually needs and grow from there. That decision is made with you at admission, not discovered afterward. The full picture of what we provide and what you bring, posture by posture, is on [the requirements page](https://auteurintelligence.com/requirements/). --- ## Tracks Access runs through a small hierarchy of tracks rather than a single self-serve signup. Which track currently applies to a given product, and the action that carries it, are shown on that product's own page. Studio is the bundle of the other products, which is why it enters differently from a single-product application. --- ## What we ask on the application The application is a questionnaire, and it does two jobs at once: it decides admission, and it gives onboarding what it needs to configure your studio. It never asks you to upload project files. - Your name and a contact email; organization, if any. - Which track and which products you are applying for, and what you intend to make. This is what scopes your access. - A few lines on the project you would bring, and where it stands today. - The AI harness and tools you already use, and how you prefer to work: OAuth sign-ins, API keys, browser-based workflows, or a mix. - The model providers and subscriptions you already hold, and whether you want pay-as-you-go generation through accounts like OpenRouter and Wavespeed. - Your hardware: what machine you run, GPU and memory if you know them, and any platform constraints a lane would need to respect. - Whether your work carries privacy requirements that point toward local models or, for enterprise, a locally hosted system. ## What happens after you apply Admission is reviewed by hand. Then intake goes to work: a classifier reads your questionnaire, weighs your hardware, your providers, and your stated work, and drafts a recommended model stack and provider wiring for your studio, which we review with you before anything is connected. You see the recommendation, the reasoning, and the expected costs before you commit to any provider. Cloud accounts are provisioned from that plan; nothing is wired blind. ## Enterprise: the private track Enterprise clients can apply for a more advanced arrangement: a locally hosted system on your own hardware, for organizations whose work cannot leave the building. That track is case by case, more exclusive, and priced accordingly. Start from the [enterprise page](https://auteurintelligence.com/solutions/enterprise-private/) or write to us directly at [hello@auteurintelligence.com](mailto:hello@auteurintelligence.com). --- ## How the actions work Every action on this site is an application, a request, or an email signup, never a purchase, and there is no checkout anywhere. --- ## Start your application **[Open the application questionnaire →](https://auteurintelligence.com/founding-beta/apply/)** Ten minutes, no uploads, straight to us. **Apply for the Founding Beta**, [/founding-beta/](https://auteurintelligence.com/founding-beta/). Not sure which product fits? Start from [Solutions](https://auteurintelligence.com/solutions/authors-story-teams/) or browse [all products](https://auteurintelligence.com/products/). --- ## What we provide, and what stays yours We provide the harness, the scaffolding, and the software engineering. We will evaluate models with you and can help you set up local open-source LLMs on your own hardware. What stays yours is model access itself: this is not a service that bundles a monthly model subscription into the price. Run fully pay-as-you-go through accounts like OpenRouter and Wavespeed, text, image, and video without a monthly stipend, or connect whatever legally held subscriptions and harnesses you already have, and aggregate everything in one place. We bring the scaffolding; you fill it with the providers you choose, at the rates you choose. We do not provide credits for third-party models. --- ## Onboarding starts with intake, not a blank page Founding-beta onboarding is hands-on: you bring your work as it already exists, and the studio takes it in. Intake accepts manuscripts and scripts across common formats, PDF, Word, and Final Draft among them, with support varying by format, alongside research documents, audio, and video. Clips are transcribed and reviewed by the models you choose, local open-source or hosted ones such as Gemini, and what intake processes lands indexed in the project's memory and media library. Day one starts with your material, not an empty screen. --- ## Proof Status source: `site_data/product_status_registry.yaml` · CTA source: `site_data/cta_map.yaml` · Claims: STORY-001, PREP-001, FILM-001, LEARN-001, BUILD-001, COND-001 · Verified: 2026-08-28.