Build your
AI-native
company.

A fellowship for founders building AI-native companies, where scale comes from orchestration, not headcount.

20 Founders
+1K AI Agents
6 Months
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— The shift

The org chart is changing.
Agents are joining the team.

For most of startup history, building a company meant building a team. You hired your way to scale, engineering, sales, operations. The bigger the ambition, the bigger the org chart. That assumption no longer holds. A new paradigm of human-AI interaction is redefining how companies scale. Midjourney reached hundreds of millions in revenue with fewer than 40 people. Cursor crossed $400M ARR at the same size. They didn't scale headcount. They scaled leverage.

The founders who understand this don't have less responsibility. They have more leverage.

01 — Traditional

Founder
Engineering
Sales
Operations
Scale = Headcount
versus

02 — AI-Native

Founder
Agent: Eng
Agent: GTM
Agent: Ops
Scale = Orchestration
— Why this matters now
The founder role is changing.
Execution is becoming abundant.
Clarity is not.

The bottleneck has never been effort. It's always been judgment, what to build, for whom, and why it matters. For most of the last decade, founders spent the majority of their time on execution: hiring, managing, coordinating. The best ideas often lost to the best-funded org charts. That constraint is loosening. The founders who move first won't be the ones who hire fastest. They'll be the ones whose judgment is sharpest, because when execution becomes abundant, clarity becomes the scarcest resource of all.

Strategist The problem is still yours to define. The vision is still yours to hold. But the execution layer beneath you has changed entirely.
Architect You design systems, not teams. Agent organizations that run product, growth, and operations, without headcount.
Operator You ship, validate, and iterate at a speed no human team can match. The leverage is real. The accountability is still yours.
— The program

We built nAItive for founders
who see it too.

nAItive is built around that insight. Not a course, not an accelerator, a 6-month environment designed to sharpen your judgment while you build a real company. Every morning, you learn what an AI-native founder actually needs to know. Every afternoon, you build. Around you, 20 founders operating at the same intensity, with the same clarity of purpose. The structure compounds: a daily rhythm that keeps you in motion, and a cycle-gate method that forces you to test reality, not just think about it.

Months 01 → 05 H-FARM · Venice
Foundation.

Five months on H-FARM campus in Venice, Italy. Every morning you learn. Every afternoon you build. Every Gate you sharpen the thesis. By month 5 you have a company in motion, not a prototype, not a pitch deck.

Month 06 Proof.

Founder's Day. You present what you've built and what you've learned. The bar is evidence, not perfection. Customers if you have them. Traction if you don't. Always the truth.

At Europe's largest innovation campus.
To friends, partners, investors & press.
— Daily rhythm

Structure is how nAItive founders compound.

This is what a typical day at nAItive looks like. Not a schedule imposed from outside, but a structure built around how founders actually do their best work. The structure is not there to fill your calendar. It's there to make you better. Sport to clear the mind. Learning to sharpen it. Building to test it. Decompressing to protect it. Connecting to expand it. Five blocks, every day, by design.

07:30 → 08:30 Sport Sport, yoga, mindset. The day starts in the body. 1 hr
09:00 → 13:00 Learn Tech, business, and creative fluency. 30 modules designed to build founders who can think, build, and communicate at the highest level. 4 hrs
14:00 → 18:00 Build Uninterrupted execution time. You work on your venture, supported by nAItive INTELLIGENCE agents. No lectures. No interruptions. 4 hrs
18:00 → 19:00 Decompress Step away from the screen. Walk, reflect, reset before the evening. 1 hr
After 19:00 Connect Dinner as programming. Founders, investors, operators at the table. Daily
— Sport · 07:30–08:30

The day starts in the body
& in the mind.

Building a company is a long game. Physical discipline is not a luxury, it is infrastructure. Every morning begins with movement. The form is yours. The commitment is not optional. We provide access to H-FARM's sports facilities: fully equipped gym, running trails through the countryside, tennis and padel courts, BMX track, kayak on the river, and dedicated yoga and pilates spaces. A nutrition program designed for cognitive performance completes the picture.

Yoga Pilates Gym Running Cycling Tennis Padel BMX Longboard Kayak Ping Pong
Why it matters

Cognitive performance, stress resilience, and creative capacity are all downstream of physical state. The best founders we know treat their body like a tool.

Format

Group or individual. H-FARM campus facilities. 1 hour, every morning.

— Learn · 09:00–13:00

The morning is for
learning what matters.

Most programs teach you to code or to pitch. We teach you to think, build, lead, and question, because founders who last do all four. Three integrated stacks. Technical depth meets business rigor meets creative excellence. This is not a bootcamp. This is a curriculum.

Curriculum

Three integrated stacks. Five months of depth. Seminars, workshops, and debates.

Faculty

Practitioners, founders, researchers, and philosophers. No academics teaching theory. People who have done it, teaching what worked.

Tech Stack Build with AI, not just on AI.

Technical depth for founders who don't outsource their stack. You learn how AI systems actually work — how to design them, ship them, scale them, and defend them. The bar is fluency, not familiarity.

Design and orchestrate multi-agent systems that handle real-world complexity.
Engineer LLMs to perform reliably outside the demo, with evals and observability.
Ship AI products that handle uncertainty without breaking user trust.
Architect infrastructure that scales without burning capital on inference.
Build — and defend against — adversarial attacks on AI systems.
Validate product ideas in hours with no-code prototyping.
Deploy agents that take real actions across browsers, desktops, and APIs.
Business Stack Build a company, not just a product.

The mechanics of building an AI-native company. From the first term sheet to the first hire, from positioning to pricing, this is where founders learn the disciplines that separate companies that scale from companies that stall.

Read a term sheet and protect your equity through every round.
Position an AI product where distribution is actually winnable.
Price for sustainability when inference is your largest COGS.
Sell as a founder — discovery, demos, objection handling, closing.
Hire AI talent in a market where every company is hiring AI talent.
Build operational systems that scale without you staying in the loop.
Lead a team through prolonged uncertainty without losing yourself.
Creative Stack Think sharper. Communicate better.

Founders win or lose on narrative, design, and judgment as much as on product. This stack sharpens how you think, how you communicate, and how you build the audience that compounds into a moat.

See what others miss — first-principles thinking applied to real problems.
Command a room and structure narratives under pressure.
Build a brand that compounds rather than decays.
Write with the clarity that proves you're actually thinking.
Design products users notice and keep coming back to.
Build an audience that becomes a distribution moat.
Use AI-assisted creative tools to ship at the scale of a full team.
— Build · 14:00–18:00

The afternoon is for
building your AI-Native company.

Most founders fail by building something nobody wants. This cycle exists to prevent that. Every 2 weeks, you face the Gate: metrics, not slides. Continue or pivot, but never waste months on a dead end.

6
Phases. One question each. You don't move forward until reality answers.
2w
The Gate. No extensions. Gate reviews are led by operators and investors who've built or funded companies at your stage. Continue or pivot, but never lie to yourself.
10
Loops in 5 months. Then showcase. Five months of 2-week loops, followed by a final showcase preparation phase. By the end you don't have a pitch. You have proof.
01 Discover Who has the problem?
02 Define What is the product?
03 Pretotype Does anyone want this?
04 Build Will they pay?
05 Validate Do the numbers work?
06 Scale Can this become a company?
The Gate Every 2 weeks.
Metrics, not presentations.
Continue Pivot
Continue = next loop.
Pivot = new thesis.
01DiscoverWho has the problem?
02DefineWhat is the product?
03PretotypeDoes anyone want this?
04BuildWill they pay?
05ValidateDo the numbers work?
06ScaleCan this become a company?
— Connect · After 19:00

The evening is
for the people around you.

Some of your most important relationships won't start in a meeting room. They'll start over a glass of wine, after a long day of building. Investors, researchers, founders, all at the same table, guards down.

Who you meet

Guests rotate weekly. H-FARM attracts leading figures in technology, innovation, physics, mathematics, and philosophy. Founders, investors, researchers, and operators who are shaping what comes next.

What

At H-FARM Campus, you'll join events designed to connect and inspire: Dinner Connect, Storming Pizza, H-FARM Clubs, debates on philosophy and quantum.

— The desired outcome

One founder.
An army of agents.
A company that runs.

By month 6, you leave with an AI-native company designed to operate without headcount. Your agents handle the work. You steer the vision.

Mandatory

An agent organization that executes core business functions, product, growth, operations, without additional hires.

Nice to have

Revenue before Founder's Day. Some nAItive founders will have paying customers before month 6, but it's not the benchmark.

nAItive OS

The institution runs
the way you'll build.

We teach AI as spine, not tool. The program runs the same way. A single infrastructure layer that handles what's noise so you can focus on what's signal — and shows you how AI-native operations work from the inside.

Program layer

Calendars, materials, session prep, gate readiness. One portal, not five tools.

Build layer

Loop-aware guidance: where you are, what the next phase asks, what the gate will demand. So your time goes into proof, not coordination.

— Who this is for

We evaluate motion
and values.
Not ideas.

We are not looking for people who want to become founders.
We are looking for founders already in motion.

Technically fluent. Intellectually restless. Evidence of bias to action.

21–33 Age range
0–5yrs Post-graduation
20 Cohort size

Values we look for

Intellectual honesty Say what you think
Boldness Risk being wrong
Bias toward action Default to doing
Genuine curiosity Learn from everyone
Long-term thinking Build to last
Humanity People before metrics
✦ Daily AI tool usage. AI must already be core to how you work.
✦ Working prototype or documented customer validation.
✦ Venture-scale ambition. Not lifestyle businesses or consultancies.
✦ Ability to be present in Venice for 6 months. Full-time commitment.
✦ Comfort with being wrong. Test ideas, don't protect them.
Working Prototype or Documented Validation

Ideas without evidence do not qualify. Show us what you've built or what you've learned from customers.

— What you will get

What selected
founders receive.

nAItive is fully funded and equity-free. Selected founders pay nothing. The program invests in you, so you can invest entirely in your venture.

01 100% Equity-free We take no equity. You keep full ownership of your company.
02 Full tuition covered No fees. Fully funded program.
03 Housing at H-FARM Private accommodation on campus for 6 months.
04 MacBook provided A laptop to use throughout the program.
05 AI tools credits Credits for OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI platforms.
06 Cloud credits AWS, GCP, and infrastructure credits to build and scale.
07 Legal & admin support Company formation, contracts, and visa assistance.
08 nAItive INTELLIGENCE AI co-founder, discovery tools, and pitch coach.
09 World-class network Access to founders, researchers, and investors who built at the frontier.
10 Founder's Day Present to investors, partners, and press at the final event.
11 A cohort of 20 founders The people you build alongside are part of the value.
— Backing

Leonid Boguslavsky
Tech entrepreneur, founder of RTP Global

Leonid Boguslavsky is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of RTP Global, which since 2000 has backed hundreds of founders, including the teams behind billion-dollar companies such as Datadog, Delivery Hero, and CRED. Earlier in his career, he built a leading IT services company and exited it to PwC.

His approach is consistent: focus on how things are built, not just what is built. He backs founders with the discipline to execute and the resilience to see things through, a standard shaped in part by his experience completing multiple Ironman races and the Ironman World Championship in Kona.

nAItive Fellowship is a continuation of this belief. Founded with H-FARM, it supports a small cohort of AI-native founders building companies around fundamentally new ways of thinking and operating. The programme is fully funded, equity-free, and designed to turn ambitious ideas into real companies.

Venice, Italy

Located at
H-FARM Campus.
Where minds cross-pollinate.

Europe's largest innovation campus. 51 hectares of space designed for building, thinking, and living. A community of 3,000 people, students, researchers, founders, investors, where different minds, different backgrounds, and different disciplines collide daily. Where technology meets nature, and unexpected connections spark new ideas.

On campus
  • Private accommodation and co-living spaces for founders.
  • Fully equipped gym, running trails, tennis, padel, kayak.
  • Restaurants, cafés, and spaces designed for deep work.
H-FARM Campus aerial view
Est. 2005 51 Hectares Venice, Italy
15 minutes from Venice. 1 hour from the Dolomites. A place built for founders who want to escape distraction and focus on what matters.
— FAQ

Questions we
get asked.

— Cohort 01 · Applications open

Ready to become a
nAItive Founder?

nAItive accepts 20 founders per cohort. No tuition. No equity. Applications require evidence of motion, not just ambition.

Apply H-FARM Campus · Roncade, Venice, Italy · 6 months · Cohort 01