01 / Days 1–2
Select
Problem selection, customer discovery, founder and team formation.
Overture Residency
Seven intensive days at the beginning of a company.
Seven days to test a problem
and see if it should become a company.
Build with AI. Get feedback from customers, founders and investors. Leave with evidence — or a clean stop.
RESIDENCY / 7 working days / No idea required. Evidence required.
The residency
What the seven days are.
Select a problem. Build. Put it in front of people. Decide. That is the week.
02 / Days 3–4
Build
Build, deploy and test the core assumptions.
03 / Days 5–6
Sell
Sell, onboard users and iterate against evidence.
04 / Day 7
Decide
Continue, pivot, recombine or stop.
Who we want
Founder-ready. Not pitch-ready.
You might have no idea yet, an early thesis, a prototype, or the first signs of traction. What matters is how you operate.
We look for people who are
High agency
You make things happen without waiting for permission.
Fast-moving
You prefer building, testing and learning over extended planning.
Open-minded
You can change your mind when the evidence changes.
Founder-ready
You are prepared to commit serious time and energy if you find something worth pursuing.
Current partners
Used in Overture
After the residency
Residency. Then Grow. Then Scale.
The week decides if a company should exist. Grow and Scale are for the ones that do.
RESIDENCY / Founder formation
Residency
7 intensive days
The week. Test a problem, build with AI, get real-world feedback. Decide whether the company should continue.
Outcome. Evidence that the company should continue.
GROW / Traction and revenue
Grow
Intensive, bounded
For companies with early signal. Work intensively on product, customers, distribution, revenue and the path to seed.
Outcome. Customers, revenue, repeatability and seed readiness.
SCALE / Growth and capital
Scale
Ongoing
For companies with repeatable traction. Access growth operators, customers, talent, strategic partners and later-stage capital.
Outcome. A company capable of compounding.
Frontier leverage
Build with frontier leverage.
A core part of Overture is using modern AI and developer infrastructure to compress the time between problem and production.
Technology companies participate because Overture introduces tools at the moment new startups choose their stack. Relationship labels stay accurate: used in Overture, ecosystem support, or technology partner.
Cursor
Development and creation environment.
OpenAI Codex
Agentic execution for software building, testing and technical work.
Vercel
Deployment and production infrastructure.
They can contribute
Credits and licensesTechnical expertsStartup benefitsEngineering supportDistributionLater: cash partnershipCapital / Overture Signal
See the company before the fundraise.
Investors can follow strong Overture companies without attending every early founder session. Early-stage investors become relevant during Grow. Growth investors stay close until Scale — when revenue, repeatable traction and later-stage capital matter.
Signal without another meeting.
Update fields
- Company
- What they are building
- Product status
- Customers
- Revenue
- Growth
- Key change since last update
- Current constraint
- Next milestone
Institutional partners
Participate where companies are being formed.
Banks, telecommunications companies, major enterprises, development institutions and other ecosystem funders can support Overture financially and strategically.
They contribute
- Capital
- Domain expertise
- Customers and important problems
- Distribution and strategic access
They receive
- Access to exceptional emerging founders
- Company formation and new ventures
- Ecosystem intelligence
- Relationships with investors and technology companies
Founding Partner
Supports the initial creation of Overture and participates across the first residency.
Annual Anchor Partner
Participates across Overture throughout the year with capital, problems and access.
Thesis / Problem Partner
Supports exploration around a commercially important area.
AI for work / unemploymentAI for transition / re-educationAI for connectivity / internet accessAI for local market productivity
Operating company
Overture compounds through companies.
Three economic layers. Partners fund the work. Embedded execution aligns Overture with the companies it helps form. Portfolio ownership is the long position.
01
Partnership revenue
Institutional and technology partners fund the operating company, the residency and programming.
02
Embedded execution
When Overture materially co-builds selected Grow companies, Overture can receive equity or aligned economic participation.
03
Portfolio upside
Ownership in successful Overture companies creates long-term asymmetric value.
System roles
Who does what.
The ecosystem is specific. Each participant has a job. Network is not the product.
| Participant | Role |
|---|---|
| Founder | Builds the company |
| Overture | Selects, forms and co-builds |
| Institutional Partner | Cash, problems, customers, domain access |
| Technology Partner | Tools, infrastructure, technical leverage and eventually cash |
| Capital Partner | Investment, judgment and downstream funding |
| Growth Partner | Scaling, international expansion and later-stage capital |
Overture Residency
From first move to company.
Seven days. Then Grow, only if the signal holds.