Audax Ventures
Structured Programs

Beyond a Dev Agency — A Program Partner

Three structured, phased programs designed for where you are in your journey — whether you're a founder, an enterprise innovation team, or an SME ready to put AI to work.

For Founders

Catalyst for Founders — Your Venture & Product Partner From Idea to Traction

A structured three-phase program that takes you from raw idea to a live, revenue-generating product — with the team, process, and accountability you need.

About This Program

Most founders are smart, motivated, and full of ideas. What they often lack is a reliable technical partner who understands the startup journey — the need to move fast, stay lean, and make every dollar count. Catalyst for Founders is our answer: a program designed specifically for pre-seed and seed-stage founders who need more than an agency.

Who It's For

Pre-seed founders with a validated idea who need a technical co-founder equivalent
Solo entrepreneurs launching a digital product or SaaS
Seed-stage companies that need to move faster than their internal team allows
Non-technical founders who need a trusted partner, not just a vendor

The Catalyst for Founders Phases

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Phase 1: Validate

2–3 weeks

Before writing a line of code, we help you validate your core assumptions with real users. We run a Discovery Sprint: customer interviews, competitive analysis, and a lean experiment to test your riskiest hypothesis. You'll leave with evidence-based confidence in your idea, a defined MVP scope, and a user persona document you can use to raise capital.

5–10 customer discovery interviews
Competitive landscape analysis
MVP feature scope document

+2 more deliverables

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Phase 2: Launch

8–16 weeks

With a validated scope, we move into design and development. We apply our MVP development process: fast, focused sprints, weekly demos, and a bias toward shipping over perfecting. You'll have a production-ready product in the hands of your first users within 8–16 weeks.

Complete UI/UX in Figma
Production-ready MVP (mobile or web)
Authentication, core features, and basic analytics

+2 more deliverables

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Phase 3: Scale

Ongoing — typically 6–18 months

Once you have users and early revenue, we help you build the systems for scale: better onboarding, new features guided by user data, and infrastructure that grows with you. Many Catalyst clients raise their seed round with us in the Scale phase, using their traction as proof of product-market fit.

Feature roadmap based on user feedback and analytics
Ongoing 2-week sprint cycles
A/B testing infrastructure

+2 more deliverables

For Enterprise

Enterprise Innovation Program — From Internal Idea to Shipped Product

A three-phase program that helps enterprise innovation teams, CTOs, and product leaders turn internal ideas into production-grade software products.

About This Program

Enterprise innovation is hard. Internal teams face bureaucracy, resource constraints, and a culture optimized for the existing business — not for new product development. Our Enterprise Innovation Program provides the external team, structured process, and senior technical leadership to move your initiative from whiteboard to production.

Who It's For

Corporate innovation teams with ideas stuck in the planning phase
CTOs who need external capacity to execute alongside internal teams
Product VPs launching a new digital product line
Organizations that need to move faster than internal procurement allows

The Enterprise Innovation Program Phases

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Phase 1: Audit

2–3 weeks

We embed with your team for 2–3 weeks to understand the current state: existing technology, internal workflows, stakeholder requirements, and the gap between where you are and where you want to go. The output is an Innovation Blueprint — a prioritized roadmap with build-vs-buy recommendations, risk assessment, and an investment case your executive team can approve.

Technology landscape audit
Stakeholder requirements document
Build vs. buy analysis

+3 more deliverables

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Phase 2: Build

3–9 months

With executive sign-off on the Innovation Blueprint, we assemble a dedicated pod of senior engineers, a designer, and a project lead to execute the build. We work in tight, 2-week sprints with bi-weekly stakeholder demos. Your team is looped in throughout — we believe the build process is also a knowledge transfer.

Production-ready software product
Full test coverage and QA documentation
CI/CD pipeline and cloud infrastructure

+3 more deliverables

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Phase 3: Scale

Ongoing — typically 6–24 months

Post-launch, we remain available as a strategic technology partner: helping your internal team build on the foundation we created, responding to performance needs as user volume grows, and advising on the next phase of your innovation roadmap.

Ongoing sprint capacity (flexible 20–80 hours/month)
Architecture evolution planning
Performance monitoring and optimization

+2 more deliverables

For SMEs

SME AI Implementation — Practical AI for Small & Mid-Sized Businesses

A three-phase program that takes small and medium-sized businesses from AI curiosity to deployed, measurable AI — without the hype, the bloat, or the six-figure consulting bill.

About This Program

AI is no longer just for large enterprises with dedicated data science teams. The tools available today — large language models, automation platforms, and intelligent workflow systems — are accessible and affordable for businesses of any size. The gap isn't capability: it's knowing where to start, how to integrate, and how to measure success. That's exactly what this program delivers.

Who It's For

SME owners and operators who know AI matters but don't know where to start
Operations managers looking to automate repetitive, high-volume tasks
Customer service teams overwhelmed by ticket volume and repetitive inquiries
Professional services firms (legal, accounting, consulting) handling large document volumes
Retailers and e-commerce businesses looking to personalize at scale
Any business spending significant time on tasks that could be intelligently automated

The SME AI Implementation Phases

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Phase 1: Assess

2–3 weeks

We start with a structured AI Readiness Assessment: a deep look at your current workflows, data assets, and operations to identify the highest-ROI opportunities for AI. We don't lead with technology — we lead with your business outcomes. The output is a prioritized AI Opportunity Map that tells you exactly which processes to automate first, what data you need, and what realistic results look like.

AI Readiness Assessment report
Workflow and data inventory
Prioritized AI Opportunity Map (top 3–5 use cases)

+3 more deliverables

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Phase 2: Implement

6–14 weeks

We build and deploy your highest-priority AI use case — fully integrated into your existing tools and workflows. This might be an AI-powered customer service agent, an internal knowledge base chatbot, an automated document processing pipeline, or a custom LLM integration with your business data. We handle everything from data preparation to deployment and staff training.

Deployed AI solution (chatbot, automation, or LLM integration)
Integration with existing tools (CRM, ERP, website, or internal systems)
Data pipeline and prompt engineering documentation

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Phase 3: Optimise

Ongoing — typically 3–12 months

AI systems improve with use — but only if you're measuring the right things and iterating. In the Optimise phase, we monitor performance, retrain or reprompt as needed, and expand your AI footprint to the next highest-priority use case. Many clients move from one deployed AI tool to a suite of coordinated automations within the first year.

Monthly AI performance reviews
Prompt and model iteration based on real usage data
Expansion to second and third use cases

+3 more deliverables

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