Build Lab. Four ideators a cohort.

The apex tier. Maitro & Talpro put up the capital, build the product in 12 weeks with full crew + AI agents, ship it under your name as the public ideator, and run the company forever. You earn a capped, time-bound royalty paid quarterly. Plus the full twelve-month Spotlight amplification SLA.

1. Maitro funds the build · Talpro + VC partners we already have

2. Maitro owns the operating company · 100% IP, day one

3. Twelve-week build · senior CTO + designers + AI agents

4. You appear as named ideator on every public surface

5. Royalty paid quarterly — capped, time-bound, audited

6. Twelve-month brand amplification SLA — podcast, NASSCOM, IIM, LinkedIn

7. IP-conflict scan against your day job — counsel-underwritten

8. ~2 hrs/week during build, ~2–4 hrs/month after launch

9. Conflict scan against every prior Maitro venture before review

10. No equity, no salary, no cheque, no clawback

11. Walk away any time — accrued royalty keeps vesting

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THE BUILD LAB JOURNEY

How it works

Nine stages. Twelve weeks.

From your first application to your product going live with your name on it. Every step, end to end.

You apply

Submit your idea — 200 words on the problem you've lived with for twenty years. 200 on what you'd build. Two peer references.

Discovery call scheduled

30 minutes with the founder and CTO. We listen first. We ask precise questions. We never sell.

AI listens. AI interrogates.

Deep-dive session recorded. Within 24 hours, AI generates 20 follow-up questions. Every thread captured.

Investability gate

100-point scoring on market, defensibility, build feasibility. Score ≥70 to proceed. We reject ~60% — that's the point.

Contracts signed

NDA. IP assignment to your operating company. Royalty agreement. Conflict-of-interest disclosure. Four documents. One sitting.

Constitution locked

30-page product specification. Tier structure, build phases, quality gates, launch plan. Dual approval — you and the CTO.

AI + crew build

12 weeks. CTO + designers + AI agents. You see progress on the dashboard. You don't see code. You don't see Jira.

You test. You refine.

Type a change request in plain English. AI enriches it into a 360° brief. Crew ships within 24 hours. No engineering vocabulary required.

Live. Under your name.

Public launch. Permanent attribution. Royalty starts. Spotlight machinery activates — podcast, keynote, IIM lecture, awards. Forever.