Seldon for Startups

Up to $3,000 in credits for startups shipping LLM products.

Understand production workloads, find repeated LLM workflows, and turn the right ones into faster, cheaper, more reliable pipelines. Enterprises are welcome on the same credits, the same 90-day path, and the same apply.

Apply for $3,000 in credits →Book a working session →

Applicants need to create an account first, then apply from the dashboard.

Cohort

25 slots

Selective review

Timeline

90 days

Evaluation to production

Outcome

1 pipeline

Shadow or production

Apply in minutes · reviewed after signup · card only if accepted

The program

Drop-in routing

Connect a real application through Seldon’s OpenAI-compatible API.

Live Audit

Find repeated LLM workflows in production, shadow, or historical traffic.

Compiled paths

Turn one repeated workflow into a faster, cheaper, more reliable pipeline.

Shadow then production

Evaluate that pipeline in shadow or production before you cut over.

Who we are keen to support

Enterprises are welcome on the same terms as startups: same credits, same 90-day path, same apply.

AI-native startups with production or near-production LLM traffic.

Teams using LLMs for extraction, classification, normalization, support automation, financial research, legal or compliance review, CRM/revenue ops, insurance, healthcare ops, or enterprise knowledge workflows.

Teams using structured outputs, JSON mode, repeated prompts, or prompt chains that are becoming production infrastructure.

Teams with cost, latency, auditability, or reliability pain from repetitive frontier-model calls.

A technical owner and a 90-day launch target for connecting a real application.

How it works

Apply

Create an account, then tell us the company, technical owner, and the application you would connect. We review within 5 business days.

Connect

Send production, shadow, or representative historical traffic through Seldon.

Identify

Find a repeated workflow worth optimizing, with a short working session.

Deploy

Evaluate a Seldon-optimized pipeline in shadow or production.

More than credits

Priority support

From connect to one production evaluation.

Named engineer
Intercom priority
One architecture review
Help migrating the chosen workflow

Production control

Govern spend and data without a new product.

Wallet
API keys
Spend limits
BYOK
No public-model training
No logo without permission

Direct product access

Closer to Live Audit and Compiled paths.

Live Audit
Compiled paths
Founder office hours
Product feedback

90-day Fast Track

Day 0–15

Connect

Route production, shadow, or historical traffic. Confirm one real application.

Day 15–30

Identify

Live Audit. Pick 1–2 repeated workflows worth compiling.

Day 30–60

Compile

Build one optimized pipeline. Architecture review with a named engineer.

Day 60–90

Evaluate

Shadow or production. Review cost, latency, reliability, quality. Go live or walk away.

Next step

Start your application.

Create an account, then apply from the dashboard. Or book a working session if you want to talk first.

Apply for $3,000 in credits →Book a working session →

Credits are earned during the 90-day program and expire at the end. We will not use your prompts or documents to train a public model, and we will not use your logo without permission.