About this role
Co-found an enterprise AI company with Builders Anyone can build a company now. The founders who win are the ones who prove someone needs it. That is exactly what this batch is built to do. Builders is a venture studio in Rotterdam. We co-found enterprise AI companies for the future of work. We put capital in, we validate alongside you, and we incorporate the company the moment the evidence earns it. This is not an accelerator. It is not advisory. It is a co-founding path, and you walk it with us from day one. Batch 2 starts Monday 2 November 2026, in person, in Rotterdam. What co-founding with Builders means You are not joining a programme. You are starting a company with a studio as your co-founder. Concretely, that gives you: A venture builder beside you, daily. Not office hours once a week. Someone in the room, on your calls, in your decisions. Design partners, not slides. The first three weeks are one thing only: signed design partners in your actual target market. Everything else waits. A studio that builds with you. Our team joins the build week in person. Design, GTM, engineering, all in the room. The CTO Network. 2,400+ technical leaders across Europe. Your first customers, advisors and hires are already in it. Capital and incorporation. Clear the bar and we incorporate together, with a pre-seed from Builders on our standard deal. Terms are public: builders.studio/studio/deal . A company memory that compounds. Every call, every claim, every piece of evidence lives in VSI from day one (more below). The shape of the path Ten weeks, one room, every stage a real cut. Before day one. We sharpen your scope together, onboard you, and pin down your first plan before you land in Rotterdam. Weeks 1 to 3: prove. Only founders with at least 3 signed design partners advance to the following step, with a venture builder beside you every day. Week 5: build week. Prototype with the studio in the room. Daily standups, design partners testing mid-build, and a Friday demo day where go or no-go is decided on the spot. Weeks 6 to 9: build. Convert partners toward paying, push toward funding, backed individually when ready. Week 10: pre-incorporation sprint. Real pitch-and-diligence sessions with outside investors. Clear the bar and we incorporate together. What is VSI VSI (Venture Studio Intelligence) is the operating layer for AI-first founders, and the batch runs on it from before day one. It turns every conversation into decision-grade intelligence: it scores the evidence behind every claim, shows you what is real and what is drifting, and guides your next move, from first call to first customer. You sell and build; your Company Memory compounds. Selection and investment decisions run on that proof, not on pitch quality. And it does not stop after ten weeks: VSI is permanent infrastructure for your venture, not a programme you graduate from. Learn more at builders.studio/vsi .