Cohort 02 · open · Dubai · remote

Turn a promising idea into a company.

Delegram screens the wedge, builds the product, and operates the AI-native systems alongside founders. You bring market access and customer truth; we bring the technical co-founder stack. Founders own the company. Every action stays behind a gate.

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Founder equity
88%
Studio share
12%
First screen
72h
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Founder screen

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Tell me what market you know, who you can reach, and what product you think should exist. I’ll check whether this is a fit for Delegram to build with you.

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01 / The thesis Why it works now

Deployment, devops, code — that's infra now.
The moat is what to build, who pays, and when.

Anyone can ship software in 2026. Agentic systems compress execution to the point that idea, timing, and wedge are the whole game. Delegram is built around that fact.

Idea

Built from a buyer.

A thesis about who pays and why. Everything downstream depends on it. We pressure-test before a line of code is written.

Timing

The window, not the trend.

The right idea finds the only window that's open. We screen for whether you're early, on time, or already late.

Wedge

Sharpest edge in.

One buyer, one painful problem, one unfair advantage. We refuse to build for "everyone." Expand from a working wedge.

Systems

Compounding execution.

Gates, agents, memory, audit. Every venture sharpens the next. The studio gets faster with every cohort.

02 / How it works From idea to operating company

Five gates. Founder approves each.

Nothing autonomous. Nothing irreversible. Every step has a clear input, a clear output, and a clear approval.

01

Submit

One page. Buyer, problem, why now, what you've already done. Five minutes of writing, not a deck.

Gate 01 · Intake
02

Screen

72 hours. Six-axis rubric scored by the screening agents and reviewed by the studio. You get a number and a critique.

Gate 02 · Screen
03

Terms

If you pass, we send terms. 88/12 equity. Founder retains operational control. IP assigned to the venture, not the studio.

Gate 03 · Terms
04

Build

Specialist agents build the product, run outreach, validate pricing. Every action queued, gated, audited.

Gate 04 · Build
05

Operate

Once revenue is real, the studio steps back. You run the company. We support, not manage.

Gate 05 · Hand-off
03 / Rubric What we screen for

Six axes. Weighted, public, repeatable.

No vibes. The rubric is the same for every venture, scored the same way, and you see your scores. Pass at 70+.

01 / Buyer

Who pays, and why now.

Specific person, specific budget, specific moment. "SMBs" is not an answer.

Weight · 22%
02 / Pain

How sharp, how often.

Scored on cost-of-not-solving, not novelty. We prefer painful and boring to clever and optional.

Weight · 18%
03 / Proof

What you've already done.

Interviews, prototype, pre-orders, design partners. Founders who built before the studio score higher.

Weight · 14%
04 / Economics

The math has to work.

CAC, gross margin, retention assumptions stress-tested against comparable ventures in our memory.

Weight · 18%
05 / Constraints

Regulation, distribution, time.

What stops this from being built? If the answer is "nothing," we look harder — usually you missed something.

Weight · 14%
06 / Founder edge

Why you, why now.

Lived knowledge, network, technical depth, conviction calibrated by scars. Not a resume line.

Weight · 14%
04 / What we operate Day-one infrastructure

A working stack on day one. Not a slide.

Every venture in the studio plugs into the same operating layer. Hosting, payments, growth, legal — pre-wired, monitored, gated. You don't pick vendors. You pick problems.

01 Hosting & infra 7 integrations
VercelCloudflareRailwayAWSFly.ioSupabaseRender
02 Databases & storage 8 integrations
PostgresRedisPineconeTursoNeonS3R2Cloudflare D1
03 Auth & identity 5 integrations
ClerkAuth0WorkOSStytchSupabase Auth
05 Payments & banking 11 integrations
StripeLemon SqueezyPaddleMercuryBrexWiseRevolut BusinessPlaidAdyenCheckout.comIncrease
06 Incorporation & legal 9 integrations
Stripe AtlasClerkyCartaIroncladHarveyDocuSignNotion AIPulley+ regional partners
07 Email, comms & CRM 10 integrations
ResendPostmarkTwilioSlackIntercomAttioHubSpotApolloClayGmail / Google Workspace
08 Growth & ads 8 integrations
Meta AdsTikTok AdsGoogle AdsLinkedIn AdsReddit AdsKlaviyoCustomer.ioSegment
09 Analytics & observability 7 integrations
PostHogMixpanelAmplitudeSentryDatadogLinearNotion API
10 Custom agent framework 200+ MCP integrations
Anthropic ClaudeOpenAIGoogle GeminixAIVercel AI SDKLangGraphMastraInngestTrigger.dev
11 External tool layer Composio + MCP
ComposioBrowserbaseExaFirecrawlPerplexity APIPlaywrightLinkupTavily+ MCP servers

Stack is opinionated, not exhaustive. Founders can swap any tool with cause. The studio maintains the integration layer so ventures don't have to.

05 / Founder Who’s building this

Three decades of operating. One operating system to do it again.

Alex Popyrin
Alex Popyrin
Founder, Delegram

Operator. Self-taught engineer. Building Delegram, getmem.ai, and Optima AI from Dubai.

Built — Top-3 e-commerce platform (12 years, exited 2015) · Hong Kong telecoms CEO (public co.) · Autonomous EV fleet, Dubai (50+ vehicles) · RWA blockchain protocol
Studied — MGIMO (Chinese economy) · PhD candidate, USyd Economics · MIT AI Program, 2018
Now building — getmem.ai (memory layer for agents) · Optima AI (enterprise AI for UAE) · Delegram
Languages — English · Russian · Mandarin · some Spanish
“A company is an idea, a moment in time, and a system. Get all three right and the rest is execution. Agentic AI is the new system layer. Delegram is how serious operators put it to work.”
Alex Popyrin Dubai · 2023—
Read the full founder story →
06 / Cohort 01 First companies launched

The first cohort launched three companies.

The first proof of Delegram is not a case-study PDF. It is companies moving from market wedge to live product: premium mobility, enterprise AI, and agent memory infrastructure.

Three different markets. One operating pattern.

Each company started with a specific pain point, a founder close to the market, and a build path that could be executed quickly through Delegram’s gated operating system.

Companies launched
3
First products
Weeks
Operating model
Gated
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Cohort 01 companies

Live ventures from the first launch cycle
01 Anvante — premium electric luxury transportation in Dubai, built around a high-service mobility operation and automated execution layer.
“Delegram allowed us to navigate geopolitical uncertainty with a fully automated operational system. The business kept moving while the environment around it kept changing.”
Founder, Anvante
02 Optima AI — production-ready AI for enterprises, focused on turning operational pain into deployed systems rather than endless pilots.
“Delegram helped us turn customer pain into a product we could sell, demonstrate, deliver, and improve. It gave us the operating system around the company, not just the first build.”
Founder, Optima AI
03 GetMem.ai — durable memory infrastructure for agents, built on the thesis that serious agents need persistent context to become useful over time.
“The speed of execution changed everything. The product was live in a matter of weeks, with infrastructure, user flows, and operating memory moving together.”
Founder, GetMem.ai
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07 / Terms Engagement structure

Plain terms. One agreement.

Founder retains operational control. Studio takes a fixed equity position in exchange for the operating system, the agents, the integrations, and the work. No hidden fees. No autonomous spend.

Equity split
Founder 88% · Studio 12%
at incorporation
Founder rights
Operational control. Strategic veto. Founder is CEO.
enshrined in shareholder agreement
IP ownership
Assigned to the venture, not the studio.
at first commit
Capital
No required cash from founder. Studio funds the build.
caps disclosed in terms
Spend authority
All paid actions gated. Founder approves every dollar.
audit log on every action
Exit
Studio rides alongside on liquidity. Standard pro-rata.
no special preferences
Reversibility
Founder can buy out studio shares before Series A.
at fair valuation, mutually agreed
Term length
Studio operates with founder for 18 months by default.
extendable by mutual agreement
08 / Comparison Studio vs. alternatives

A different shape from incubators, accelerators, and solo agents.

Most paths optimize one constraint and ignore the rest. The studio resolves all three at once: speed, capital, control.

Solo founder
Accelerator
Delegram
Equity given up
0%
5–10%
12%
Time to first build
3–6 months
6–8 weeks
2 weeks
Operational support
None
Mentors, weekly
Daily, agentic
Infra & integrations
DIY
Discounts
Pre-wired
Founder retains control
Yes
Mostly
Yes — enshrined
Reversibility
n/a
None
Buy-out before Series A
09 / FAQ Common questions

Direct answers.

Why 12% and not 5% or 20%?

Twelve percent reflects what the studio actually does: months of agentic build, the integration layer, growth experiments, terms-sheet support, and founder operating help. Lower would underprice the work and break the model. Higher would distort founder ownership. We picked the number we'd accept on the other side of the table.

Do I keep control of the company?

Yes. Operational control is the founder's. Strategic veto is the founder's. The studio holds 12% as a minority shareholder and operates alongside — not above — the company.

What does "gated by default" mean in practice?

Every agent action with cost, customer-facing output, or irreversible state lands in a queue. The founder approves, edits, or rejects. Nothing autonomous. Nothing surprising. There's an audit log of every decision, queryable by the founder.

What if my idea fails the screen?

You get the rubric scores and a written critique. No equity, no fee, no obligation. Many founders resubmit a sharpened version. Some take the critique to a different studio. Both are fine.

Can I bring my own team?

Yes. The studio's agents replace generic execution work; they don't replace human co-founders or specialist hires. Many ventures bring a co-founder and use the studio for the operating layer.

Who actually runs the studio?

Alex Popyrin and a small bench of operators he's shipped with for over a decade. Full profile here.

What sectors do you take?

Software-led ventures with a buyer we can identify. We're stronger in B2B, ops, vertical SaaS, and AI-native products. We're not the right partner for hardware, biotech, or consumer-app gambits.

Cohort 02 · open

If your idea passes the screen, we build it together.

One page. Five minutes. Seventy-two hours to a verdict. Either way, you walk away with a full critique.

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