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IOSG · Design Partner Program

Your AI infra,
tested inside a real financial institution.

IOSG is the financial-institution design partner for AI-native teams. We deploy your product in our daily venture and liquid workflows, handle compliance, ship instrumented feedback reports, and open doors into 300+ financial institutions (F.I.) across the US and Asia.

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02 / The Gap

Early feedback rarely predicts what survives institutional procurement.

AI founders selling into financial institutions hit the same wall.

Banks, exchanges, and asset managers don't have internal AI builders. They can't evaluate your product. Feedback comes back as procurement checklists. One meeting, then silence.

We sit on the other side of that wall. We use AI tools daily for sourcing, diligence, and portfolio operations. We know how to open the door.

Continue · What IOSG Brings ↓
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/ 06 ITEMS · WHAT IOSG BRINGS

The financial-institution design partner most VCs cannot be.

We run a production AI stack inside a venture + liquid workflow. Your product gets tested in a real institutional environment, with compliance, telemetry, and a network of 300+ financial customers attached.

01 // Internal Tools

We run a real production AI stack. Yours runs inside it.

One engineer for every two investors on our team. Most VCs have none. We ship our own AI stack daily: custom plugins, MCP servers, automation, telemetry. Your product runs inside our actual workflow, not a sandbox. That's why our feedback is instrumented, our reports are signal, and our compliance instincts come from doing the work.

/ What we built

  • Self-evolving Slack agents
  • Custom plugins (Skills, Hooks)
  • Custom MCP servers
  • Automation workflows
  • Telemetry pipelines
  • Compliance-aware adoption
02 // Network

A direct path to 300+ financial institutions.

We share our CRM. We make warm introductions. We co-pitch into procurement.

300+
F.I.
$350B+
AUM
400M+
End users
200+
Portfolio
03 // Benchmarks

Custom benchmarks. Continuous performance monitoring.

We design a custom evaluation suite for your product: latency, accuracy, agent task completion, retention, cost-per-task. We run it every cycle and ship a monthly performance report. You ship a feature, we measure if it moved the metric.

04 // Asia GTM

A developer audience most VCs can't reach.

We collaborate closely with the Newlearner channel, 62K verified developers in the largest high-quality overseas Chinese tech community, and connect founders directly into open-source model frontier labs. Offices in NYC and Hong Kong. Asia F.I. pilots close two to three times faster than US pilots.

/ What we built

  • Newlearner channel (in-house collab)
  • Open-source frontier labs
  • 63 partner media outlets
  • NYC + HK offices
05 // Founder Kit

The IOSG Founder Kit.

A coupon book for founders. We have negotiated exclusive discounts from service providers across infrastructure, tooling, and operations. Your runway stretches further.

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What you get.

The program starts with a $100K IOSG angel investment. Every design partner accepts the check, then gets structured benchmarks, live product usage, and warm distribution into our F.I. network.

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$100K design partner investment

Every design partner accepts the check. We become aligned owners, then deploy your product, benchmark it, and help open F.I. procurement.

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Design partnership + benchmarks

Daily usage, weekly feedback reports, and a monthly performance report against your custom benchmark suite.

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Co-marketing + distribution

Joint case studies, warm introductions into our F.I. network, and amplification through our developer channels.

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How It Works

Three phases. Six months. Flagship F.I. logo + benchmark track record by the end.

Process designed by builders
Phase 1 · Kickoff

Use cases + benchmark co-design

Define use cases, provision access, and co-design a custom benchmark suite for your product: the metrics that matter for your category.

Phase 2 · Cycles

Weekly feedback + monthly performance

We use your product daily across venture and liquid workflows. Every cycle, a structured feedback report. Every month, a performance report against your benchmark suite.

Phase 3 · Network

Open the doors

CRM access, warm introductions, co-pitching into procurement, and distribution through our developer channels. By the end: flagship F.I. logo, public case study, benchmark track record.

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Who We Back

  • Building agent infra, dev tools, or AI productivity products

    Tools, frameworks, agents, or applications that ship to real users.

  • Targeting SMBs, developers, or financial institutions

    Your end customer is a builder or an institution. We have both audiences.

Builders Only

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TIME // CRITICAL

The window is short.

AI infrastructure is consolidating fast. The teams that win the next milestone will be the ones that secured anchor customers and category positioning in the next twelve months. Scale now, or watch a better-capitalized competitor take it.

ACTION // REQ

Tell us what you are building.

> Email yiping@iosg.vc with one paragraph on what you are shipping, a demo link, and your current traction. 72hr response.

Email Yiping

Applying means you are open to IOSG investing $100K as part of the design partnership.