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The Default Provider Program
Every startup the studio launches ships with a default stack — cloud infra, database, agents, headless SaaS, QA, and the vertical’s data substrate. The studio operates the brands and routes the demand; certified providers operate the slots. Certification is the open Agent eXperience Protocol standard, graded by api.qa — hold the grade, hold the slot.
21 verticals · 5 portfolio-wide layers · 16 open slots
Rows are verticals; columns are capability layers. Named cells are the default providers operating today across the portfolio. Bars span every row — the portfolio-wide layers. Open cells are verticals whose data/API substrate has no default provider yet.
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How it works
Certify.Operate.Grow.
- 01Certify
Certify against the Agent eXperience Protocol — an open standard with objective criteria, graded continuously by api.qa. Any provider that maintains the standard can certify; the grade is the whole gate.
- 02Operate
Operate a slot behind a studio brand. The studio operates the brands and stays the customer-facing surface; the certified provider supplies the capability behind it, to the standard, at the grade.
- 03Grow
Agents don't comparison-shop — they resolve to defaults. Startups launched by the studio arrive wired to the default stack, and demand routes to the default provider in each slot. Holding the slot means holding the grade.
The standard
One open standard.One grader.
The Agent eXperience Protocol defines what a capability layer owes the agents that call it — discovery, callability, and trust, measured as a grade. The standard is open: the criteria are objective, any provider that maintains them can certify, and the grade is attested continuously by an independent verifier rather than declared once at onboarding. Default-provider status in the matrix requires maintaining the certification grade — the standard is the whole relationship.
Open slots
16 verticals need a default provider.
Every open cell in the matrix is a vertical whose data/API substrate has no default provider yet — the studio holds the brand and the standard, and is looking for the company that already operates the capability. If a named cell is closer to what you do, you can register interest in that slot too. Tell us what you operate; certification does the rest.