Partners & programmes
We are building the rails for AI companies. We are asking for compute.
Aura OS is an operating system for AI companies: you describe a business, autonomous AI employees run it, and every action they take is measured, budgeted and settled onchain.
Self-funded, 4 people, live product in invite-only beta. No outside capital. Everything below is measured from the running system, not a deck.
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These counters read the public network views directly. Early numbers are small on purpose — the beta is invite-only and we open seats in waves. Trading activity shown inside the product is a simulation and is labelled as such wherever it appears.
What we are building
AI agents today are demos. They chat, they do not run anything. There is no shared memory, no budget, no accountability and no way for one agent to pay another for work.
Aura OS gives every founder a company of AI employees with one shared memory, a token budget per employee, an approval gate before anything spends money or goes public, and a machine-payable API layer so agents can buy and sell work from each other in USDC.
Agent-to-agent commerce needs rails. We built them: an x402 gateway that prices each endpoint, verifies the payment, splits revenue 60/20/20 between the founder, the treasury and the platform, and settles against Base.
Agent runtime
Every AI employee has a role, a memory, a token budget and a spend cap. Work is logged as discrete actions with a cost and a result attached — not a chat transcript.
x402 machine-payable API
Nine priced endpoints answer HTTP 402 with payment requirements, verify the USDC payment, then serve. Revenue splits 60/20/20 between the founder, the treasury and the platform automatically.
Onchain settlement
Smart accounts are provisioned per founder via ERC-4337 counterfactual addresses, so onboarding needs no wallet install. Reward drops and payouts anchor to a Base block for a verifiable receipt.
Built on Lovable Cloud
Postgres with row-level security per founder, server functions on an edge runtime, and a TanStack Start front end. One codebase, no ops team.
How it fits together
founder ──▶ CEO agent ──▶ AI employees (role · memory · budget · spend cap)
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shared company memory (Postgres, RLS per founder)
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┌─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┐
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x402 gateway ── HTTP 402 → verify USDC → serve smart accounts (ERC-4337)
9 priced endpoints counterfactual, gasless first use
│ │
└──────── revenue split 60 founder / 20 treasury / 20 platform ────────┘
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settlement anchored to a Base blockWhere credits go
Inference is the single biggest cost: every agent-hour is model calls. Credits go to model inference for the agent runtime, RPC for smart-wallet provisioning and settlement receipts, and storage for company memory and file ingest.
Google for Startups Cloud — Start tier
Offers Cloud + Gemini/Vertex credits (Start tier is self-serve; Scale tier needs a VC or accelerator nomination)
Requires Early stage, under 5 years old, self-apply
Gemini inference for the CEO agent and every AI-backed x402 endpoint.
Microsoft
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
Offers Azure + Azure OpenAI credits, tiered and scaling with usage
Requires Self-apply with a product description, no investor required
A second inference provider so agent work never blocks on one vendor.
AWS
AWS Activate — Founders tier
Offers Self-serve credits (Portfolio tier is larger but requires an investor referral)
Requires Any startup can self-sign-up
Object storage and background workers for agent memory and file ingest.
Base / Coinbase
Base ecosystem — Builder Rewards, Base Batches, CDP credits
Offers Free CDP API tier plus cohort-based ecosystem rewards and grants
Requires Ship on Base; cohorts are competitive but need no investor
We already settle x402 payments and reward drops on Base — this is our closest ecosystem fit.
Austria Wirtschaftsservice
aws Preseed — Innovative Solutions / Deep Tech
Offers Non-repayable cash grant for personnel and development
Requires Austrian company or company in formation, pre-seed, innovative product
Salary runway for the four founders through the first public season.
FFG (Austria)
Innovationsscheck / Basisprogramm
Offers Small voucher grant for external R&D services; Basisprogramm funds larger R&D projects
Requires Austrian SME with an R&D project; the voucher has minimal paperwork
Independent research on agent safety and spend-cap enforcement.
OpenAI
OpenAI for Startups / Converge
Offers API credits and programme access (amounts unverified)
Requires Usually investor-backed or invited; cohort based
Frontier reasoning for the CEO agent's long-horizon planning.
Anthropic
Claude for Startups
Offers Claude API credits (tiers and eligibility unverified)
Requires Early-stage startup; larger tiers likely need a partner
Long-context agent memory and document-heavy acquisition work.
Alchemy
Startup / growth credits
Offers No published startup-credit page found; standard tiers apply
Requires Contact sales directly
RPC headroom for smart-wallet provisioning and settlement receipts.
Lovable
Partner / enterprise programme
Offers No public startup-credit programme; enterprise contact only
Requires Direct outreach
Build and Cloud headroom — the whole product runs on Lovable today.
European Commission
EIC Accelerator
Offers Grant up to EUR 2.5M plus optional equity investment
Requires Breakthrough deep tech with real market traction; several cut-offs per year
Target for the round after a public launch, not today.
Programme terms change often. Figures we could not confirm from an official page are marked unverified rather than guessed.
The team
Product & founder
Vision, design direction, go-to-market.
Agent systems
Runtime, memory, budgets and spend enforcement.
Protocol & payments
x402 gateway, smart wallets, settlement.
Growth & community
Founding cohorts, contest seasons, build in public.