The grant
Everything a scaling startup hits the ceiling on
We do not hand out credits. We give the plan: the whole Team tier for a year, with the limits lifted where a growing company feels them first, so nothing you build has to be rebuilt when you outgrow the grant.
Twelve months of Team
The full NOAN Team plan, free for a year: shared workspace, admin controls, integrations, Verity in Slack. Plus a forward-deployed agent, a direct line for product feedback, and a shared Slack channel with our team.
Unlimited facts and API keys
One verified brain for your company, with no ceiling on the facts it holds or the keys your people and agents read it with.
Seats for the whole team
Up to 15 seats, the Team plan's full allowance, so founders, engineers, and forward-deployed teams all read from the same truth.
A monthly Verity allowance
Headless reads over the API and MCP are unlimited. Verity in Slack and any NOAN-hosted Verity product we release come with a monthly allowance that rolls over.
No equity, no fees, no card. After twelve months, startup pricing continues in year two. Nothing migrates and nothing is switched off.
The criteria
Who it is for
Published in full, so you can read your own application before you make it. The gate is what every grantee must pass. The fit is what we look for beyond it.
All of these, checked on every application
- An incorporated company with a company-domain email and a live website that describes a real product.
- Under 50 people.
- Founded within the last five years.
- Pre-seed to Series B. Bootstrapped qualifies. Past Series B is an Enterprise conversation, not the grant.
- Not an existing paying NOAN customer. One grant per company, ever.
B2B
You sell to businesses, and your work lands inside their workflows.
Agentic
Agents in your product, or in your stack: MCP, Claude Code, agent SDKs. Or a funded mandate to get there.
A technical owner
Someone on the team who can hold an API key and put agents to work on your facts, ours from the open-source pack or your own. A founder who codes counts.
Client-facing work
Common among grantees, not required. If you deploy into customers' workflows, forward-deployed or implementation engineers, per-client setups, your facts matter twice: your own, and one base per client.
Not eligible as grantees
- Agencies, consultancies, and solo advisors. The Partner Program is your door, and it pays.
- Non-technical small businesses with nobody to own the API and the agents on it.
- Companies over 50 people, or past Series B.
If you implement NOAN for clients, the Partner Program pays a recurring share for every client you bring.
In return
Four asks, and none of them is money
Every string is a way for the grant to pay you back: a fleet running on your facts, and proof that it does.
A Built on NOAN badge
On your site, for the twelve months of the grant.
Logo rights
Your logo on our startups page and in our materials.
One case study
A short, honest write-up of what you built on the fact layer, once there is something to show.
Agents deployed on the API
Agents running on your facts over the API within 90 days, from the open-source pack or your own. It is how the grant pays you back.
How to apply
No form. Verity takes it
The chat in the corner of this page is the application. She asks, you answer, and the application lands in our Network tagged for review, with everything you told her on the record.
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Talk to Verity
Open the chat on this page. She asks about nine questions: what you build, who you sell to, team, stage, agents, who on the team is technical. About five minutes, no deck.
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We review
A person reads every application against the criteria on this page and replies by email within a week.
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Build
Your workspace opens on the Team plan and the year starts the day you accept. Startup pricing continues in year two, with no migration and no cliff.
Questions
Before you apply
Apply in five minutes
Verity takes the application right here. No deck, no form, and a reply within a week.